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Saturday, June 6, 1908
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The Headlines
24 SEATS WON BY THE TAFT MEN; National Committee Seats Administration Delegates in Alabama and Arkansas. ANTI-TAFT MEN PROTEST Objection to Hitchcock and His Assistants Sitting In the Committee Voted Down. 24 SEATS WON BY THE TAFT MEN
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
- Alexander Pushkin (1799)
- Diego Velázquez (1599)
- Thomas Mann (1875)
- Sukarno (1901)
- Pierre Corneille (1606)
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
43,098 days ago
(118 years, 28 days)