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Monday, October 21, 1907
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The Headlines
WILLIAM E. WALLING ARRESTED IN RUSSIA; New York Socialist Charged with Associating with Finnish Progressivists. ALL HIS BAGGAGE SEIZED His Wife, Known in Literary World as Anna Stransky, and Her Sister, Rose, Also in Custody.
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School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
On This Day
The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
- Hongwu Emperor (1328)
- Edogawa Ranpo (1894)
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
Meanwhile
- Panic of 1907 — Bank runs led to the creation of the Federal Reserve.
Time Elapsed
43,327 days ago
(118 years, 257 days)