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Saturday, December 26, 1908
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE ATTACKED ON STREET; On Morning Stroll Waiter Grips Fallieres from Behind and Tries to Pull His Beard. SEIZED BY BICYCLE POLICE Assailant Boasts of Being Royalist, but Is Probably a Madman Inspired by Steinhell Slanders.
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
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Charles Babbage (1791)
- Henry Miller (1891)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194)
- Yun Ch'iho (1864)
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
42,895 days ago
(117 years, 190 days)