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On the date
Sunday, May 26, 1907
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The Headlines
MAYOR HINTS AT VETO OF UTILITIES BILL; If It Violates Home Rule It Is Fatally Defective, He Says, at Hearing. COCKRAN CLAIMS IT AS HIS Then, in a Speech Professing to Urge Its Acceptance, He Rips It to Pieces.
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School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- John Wayne (1907)
- Pope Clement VII (1478)
- Mehmed III (1566)
- Abraham de Moivre (1667)
- Dorothea Lange (1895)
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
43,475 days ago
(119 years, 40 days)