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Wednesday, February 13, 1907
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The Headlines
PROBABLY 150 LOST IN WRECK; Joy Line Steamer Larchmont Sunk; Only Nineteen Known Survivors. MANY DIED IN BOATS Scores, Lightly Clad, Faced Icy Gale -- Two Committed Suicide. SUNK BY A SCHOONER Coal-Laden Craft Rammed Its Bow Deep Into Steamer. CARE FOR WOMEN FIRST All Boats Launched Before Captain Left -- He Blames the Schooner's Men.
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School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766)
- Ivan Krylov (1769)
- Georges Simenon (1903)
- Pope Alexander VII (1599)
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Electric Washing Machine, Color Photography (Autochrome) & Bakelite (Plastic).
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
43,578 days ago
(119 years, 143 days)