Monday, August 8, 1921

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The Headlines

COAST STEAMER LOST ON CALIFORNIA REEF; 12 DEAD, 36 MISSING; The Alaska Strikes in a Dense Fog and Goes Down in Twenty Minutes. LIFEBOATS ARE OVERTURNED Captain Stays Aboard Ship and Is Among Missing--Brooklyn Man Among the Dead. TWELVE BODIES RECOVERED The Anyox Arrives on Scene Within an Hour and Takes the Survivors to Eureka.

Best-selling Sheet Music

The Sheik of Araby

Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder

The must-have

Raggedy Andy

You Share a Birthday With

• Paul Dirac (1902)
• Emiliano Zapata (1879)
• Ernest Lawrence (1901)
• Saint Dominic (1170)
• Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)