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Thursday, September 17, 1908
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The Headlines
$30,000 FORGERY ON E.R. CHAPMAN & CO.; Stock Exchange Firm Says Employe Got Proceeds of Customer's Five Checks. LEHMAN A. COOPER MISSING Manager of Firm's Uptown Office -- Chapman & Co. Say Trust Company Which Accepted Checks Is the Loser.
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Shine On, Harvest Moon
Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
On This Day
The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Bernhard Riemann (1826)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
- Pope Paul V (1550)
- Marquis de Condorcet (1743)
- Billy the Kid (1859)
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
42,995 days ago
(117 years, 290 days)