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Saturday, December 30, 1905

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The Headlines

SWANSTROM NOW HEADS BIG SUBWAY SYNDICATE; Company on $100,000,000 Capital Basis Now Forming McDONALD MAY BUILD LINES Will Connect Two Boroughs by Various Routes, Giving Local and Express Service.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

On This Day

  • Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1905

  • E=mc2

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

43,987 days ago

(120 years, 187 days)