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Tuesday, May 12, 1908
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The Headlines
ROOSEVELT STOPS LABOR LEGISLATION; Will Make No More Effort for Anti-Injunction Bill or Sherman Law Change. GOMPERS ASKED TOO MUCH Demanded That Measure Should Lean Entirely to Labor -- Adjournment of Congress Probable May 23.
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
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828)
- Justus von Liebig (1803)
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
43,123 days ago
(118 years, 53 days)