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Monday, December 11, 1905
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The Headlines
MAJOR SWAIN ACQUITTED.; Retired Army Officer Had Been Convicted Once of Murder.
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)
On This Day
A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Hector Berlioz (1803)
- Robert Koch (1843)
- Max Born (1882)
- Alfred de Musset (1810)
- Pope Leo X (1475)
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
44,006 days ago
(120 years, 206 days)