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Monday, September 5, 1921
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The Headlines
RUSSIA'S CHILDREN LEFT TO THEIR FATE; Two Hundred or More Abandoned Little Ones PickedUp Daily in Samara.PITIFUL SCENES DESCRIBED Great Rush of Terrified Peasants Dwindled, but Will Come Again With Frost. RUSSIA'S CHILDREN LEFT TO THEIR FATE Flotsain of the Collecting Station.
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
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Tommaso Campanella (1568)
- John Cage (1912)
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
Time Elapsed
38,259 days ago
(104 years, 299 days)