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Saturday, July 25, 1908
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The Headlines
STOLE $1,900 ON STREET CAR.; Philadelphia Thief Ran Into Department Store and Was Lost in Crowds.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Shine On, Harvest Moon
Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
On This Day
Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Elias Canetti (1905)
- Gavrilo Princip (1894)
- Arthur Balfour (1848)
- Ibn Arabi (1165)
- Afonso I of Portugal (1109)
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
43,049 days ago
(117 years, 344 days)