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Wednesday, December 6, 1905
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The Headlines
CELEBRATE MARK TWAIN'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY; Fellow-Workers in Fiction Dine with Him at Delmonico's. HEAR WHY HE LIVED SO LONG And How They, If They Resemble Him, May Reach Seventy, Too -- Roosevelt Sends Congratulations.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Gus Edwards
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Jukebox, Silencers & Novocain.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
44,011 days ago
(120 years, 211 days)