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On the date
Friday, August 16, 1907
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The Headlines
OLD ORCHARD IS FIRE SWEPT; Six Hotels and Nearly 100 Cottages Burned -- 3 Lives Believed Lost. PROPERTY LOSS $1,000,000 Probably Caused by Defective Insulation of Wires -- Hundreds of Summer Visitors Homeless.
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School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Zachary Taylor (1816)
- Gabriel Lippmann (1845)
- T. E. Lawrence (1888)
- Wilhelm Wundt (1832)
- John Bosco (1815)
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
43,393 days ago
(118 years, 323 days)