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Tuesday, October 8, 1907
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The Headlines
LUSITANIA AVERAGES 23.36.; Rushing West for a Record Through Rain and a Heavy Sea.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
- Juan Perón (1895)
- Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883)
- Zog I (1895)
- Heinrich Schütz (1585)
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
43,340 days ago
(118 years, 270 days)