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Monday, February 22, 1909

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The Headlines

ROBBERS DYNAMITE A NATIONAL BANK; First National at Califon, N.J., Badly Wrecked, but Cracksmen Get Little Cash. HAD TO LEAVE $5,000 BEHIND Town Woke Up and Got After Them Before They Could Get at Safe Holding Most of the Cash.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet

Percy Wenrich

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

  • The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1909

  • Peary to the Pole

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

42,837 days ago

(117 years, 132 days)