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On the date
Saturday, May 11, 1907
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The Headlines
STEEL RAIL PERIL TO BE INQUIRED INTO; Expert Commission Named Following Alarming Reports of Breakage. WILL USE NEW PROCESS The Union Pacific Shifts Its Orders from Steel Corporation to Tennessee Coal & Iron.
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School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
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
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
43,490 days ago
(119 years, 55 days)