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Wednesday, February 19, 1908

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The Headlines

AMERICAN AUTO GETS TO TOLEDO; Thomas Car Has a Lead of Twenty-nine Miles in the Matin-Times Race. LEADING DRIVERS HURRY De Dion Crew Pursues Roberts -- Zust Car Leaves Cleveland at 1 o'Clock This Morning. RUN INTO A SNOWSTORM Travel Will Be Bad To-day, but Roberts Will Press On -- Sizaire-Naudin Withdrawn.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1908

  • Take me out to the ball game

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

43,206 days ago

(118 years, 136 days)