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Saturday, February 10, 1923

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The Headlines

RUHR STRIKES BLOCK ALL FRENCH EFFORTS; Another Day Passes With No Coal Mined and No Trains Moved in the District. FOOD SHORTAGE APPEARS Sabotage Continues Against Telephone Lines -- Propaganda of Resistance Is Spreading.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

  • Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1923

  • Yes, We Have No Bananas

Tech Check

Bulldozer, 16mm Film & Hearing Aid (Vacuum Tube).

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

37,736 days ago

(103 years, 141 days)