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Thursday, May 5, 1921
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The Headlines
STILLMAN WITNESS SWEARS HE SPIED; TELLS WHAT HE SAW; Banker's Wife at Hearing When Canadian Describes Grand Anse Hotel Incident. SHE DIRECTS QUESTIONING Witness Denies He Is on Stillman Payroll, but Admits HeExpects to Get Something.GUIDE'S BROTHER PRESENTBeauvals's Handwriting Identifiedon Six Letters by Former Employe at Country Estate.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
The Sheik of Araby
Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
You Share a Birthday With
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846)
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921)
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Robots (The Term 'Robot'), Polygraph (Modern) & Insulin (Medical Tech).
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Meanwhile
- Post-WWI Recession — Severe deflation and collapse of agricultural prices.
Time Elapsed
38,382 days ago
(105 years, 57 days)