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Sunday, April 25, 1909
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The Headlines
TAFT EXPOSED TO MEASLES.; Shakes Hands with Boy Who Is Stricken with the Disease.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
Percy Wenrich
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900)
- Louis IX of France (1214)
- Andrey Kolmogorov (1903)
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
42,775 days ago
(117 years, 70 days)