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Sunday, August 6, 1922
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The Headlines
35 TO 40 KILLED AND SIXTY INJURED IN MISSOURI WRECK; Fast Missouri Pacific Train Runs Into Rear of a Local at Sulphur Springs. CARS HURLED FROM TRACKS They Fall Into Creek Below and Some Passengers Meet Death by Drowning. BOY SCOUTS ARE VICTIMS Some, Uninjured, Aid in Relief-- Engineer Said to Have Run By Signal.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Buddy
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
You Share a Birthday With
- Alexander Fleming (1881)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809)
- Lucille Ball (1911)
- Paul Claudel (1868)
- Robert Mitchum (1917)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Technicolor Films, Water Skiing & Audiometer.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
37,924 days ago
(103 years, 329 days)