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Sunday, March 17, 1907

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The Headlines

FIRE WIPES OUT HELICON HALL; And Upton Sinclair Hints That the Steel Trust's Hand May Be In It. LIFE LOST; SEVERAL HURT Woman Makes a Lifeline of Her Flannel Nightgown and Slides to Safety. COLONY FUTURE IN DOUBT Founder Ready to Continue, but Says the Rest Must Decide -- They Have Lost All. Sinclair Deeply Suspicions. Sinclairs Gave the Alarm. Rescues by Blanket. One Rope Fire Escape. The Craigs Saved a Few Trifles. Women Workers Leap. Earthquake Victim Hit Again. Woman Heard Explosions. Made Her Own Fire Escape. Future Plans Not Settled. Carpenter Slept Too Well.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

School Days

Will Cobb & Gus Edwards

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1907

  • Ziegfeld Follies

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

43,546 days ago

(119 years, 111 days)