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Wednesday, November 4, 1908
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The Headlines
CITY VOTE; Taft Carries New York by 9,378. CHANLER BY 56,000 Hughes Loses Kings by 5,241 and Queens by 4,635 -- Trading at Bryan's Expense Shown in Brooklyn.
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
- Joseph Rotblat (1908)
- Will Rogers (1879)
- Guido Reni (1575)
- Edmund Kean (1787)
- Gerard van Honthorst (1592)
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
42,947 days ago
(117 years, 242 days)