Saturday, October 8, 1921

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The Headlines

MAIL ROBBERS GET $100,000 IN DETROIT; Hold Up Wagon From Windsor, Ontario and Escape With Kenilworth Track Funds. BLOCK STREETS WITH AUTO Overpower Driver and Transfer 26 Pouches From Unlocked Cage to Their Car.

Best-selling Sheet Music

The Sheik of Araby

Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder

The must-have

Raggedy Andy

On This Day

• KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
• Juan Perón (1895)
• Frank Herbert (1920)
• Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883)
• Zog I (1895)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)