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Friday, January 31, 1908
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The Headlines
SPIRIT MESSAGES PROVED, SAYS LODGE; Distinguished British Scientist Asserts He Has Made Successful Psychic Tests. HAS TALKED WITH HODGSON Prof. Hyslop Says He Conversed with F.W.H. Meyers's Spirit Yesterday -- Demonstrations Promised.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Shine On, Harvest Moon
Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Alva Myrdal (1902)
- Irving Langmuir (1881)
- Theodor Heuss (1884)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Ford Model T (Assembly Line), Geiger Counter & Cellophane.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
43,225 days ago
(118 years, 155 days)