Wednesday, August 3, 1921

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The Headlines

RUM RUNNER CAUGHT; SEE 'STARTLING' PLOT; Schooner Under British Flag Taken Beyond Three-Mile Limit Without Legal Precedent. MASTER AND MATE ESCAPE Vessel Brought Here and Her Crew Detained as Officials Seek Heads of Conspiracy.

Best-selling Sheet Music

The Sheik of Araby

Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder

The must-have

Raggedy Andy

On This Day

• Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Habib Bourguiba (1903)
• Stanley Baldwin (1867)
• Haakon VII (1872)
• Frederick William III of Prussia (1770)
• Alfred Deakin (1856)

Slang

Tech Check

Robots (The Term 'Robot'), Polygraph (Modern) & Insulin (Medical Tech).

Cost of Living (1920)