Friday, October 21, 1921

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The Headlines

Trainmen on Texas Line Will Strike Tomorrow; Received Leave to Anticipate Big Walkout

Best-selling Sheet Music

The Sheik of Araby

Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder

The must-have

Raggedy Andy

On This Day

• President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against lynching in the Deep South.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Alfred Nobel (1833)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
• Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
• Hongwu Emperor (1328)
• Dizzy Gillespie (1917)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)