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Sunday, June 21, 1908
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The Headlines
GAMBLING "SYSTEM" ROUTED BY BINGHAM; "The Man at Headquarters" and His Spy Squad Closing Down All Games of Chance. THREAT OF A CRIME WAVE Gamblers Say the Jimmy Will Replace the Handbook if Crusade Continues -- Their Situation Desperate. GAMBLING SYSTEM ROUTED BY BINGHAM
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
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)
- Pope Leo IX (1002)
- Machado de Assis (1839)
- Siméon Denis Poisson (1781)
- Daniel D. Tompkins (1774)
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
43,083 days ago
(118 years, 13 days)