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Monday, October 15, 1906

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The Headlines

FRENCH MOB WRECKS LONGCHAMP COURSE; Racegoers, Maddened at Bad Start, Riot, Pillage and Burn. TROOPS CHARGE THE CROWDS Bookmakers' Cash Seized and Booths and Betting Pavilions Fired -Many Persons Injured.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

You're a Grand Old Flag

George M. Cohan

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1906

  • The Jungle

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

43,698 days ago

(119 years, 263 days)