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Thursday, January 21, 1909
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The Headlines
TRAPPED BY FLAMES, 53 PERISH ON LAKE; Explosion Sets Fire to Wooden Crib Where Workers on Chicago Tunnel Live. ICY WATERS AROUND THEM Rescuers Have Trouble in Reaching Them -- Some May Be in Tunnel Under the Lake. TRAPPED BY FLAMES, 53 PERISH ON LAKE
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
Percy Wenrich
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Toaster, Silencer for Guns & Instant Coffee.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
42,870 days ago
(117 years, 165 days)