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Friday, May 11, 1906
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The Headlines
REFUSED $500 SCHOLARSHIP.; Columbia Man Unable to Accept Iron and Steel Institute Honor.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
You're a Grand Old Flag
George M. Cohan
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Salvador Dalí (1904)
- Irving Berlin (1888)
- Martha Graham (1894)
- Charles W. Fairbanks (1852)
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
AM Radio Broadcasting, Victrola Phonograph & Sonar Concepts.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
43,855 days ago
(120 years, 55 days)