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Friday, August 30, 1907
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The Headlines
HUNDREDS STORM BELLEVUE GATE; Mob Seeks Chauffeur Who Took Girl He Had Run Over to Hospital. HE COLLAPSES FROM FRIGHT Child's Father Cries "Kidnapper" When He Sees Auto Driver Put Her in His Car.
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School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
- Theodor Svedberg (1884)
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
43,379 days ago
(118 years, 309 days)