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Tuesday, March 13, 1923
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The Headlines
FORTY-SIX KILLED IN STORM SWEEPING MID-WEST AND SOUTH; Scores More Are Injured by Blizzard in One Section and Cyclone in the Other. DAMAGES IN THE MILLIONS Kentucky and Tennessee, Where Wind Reaches Eighty Miles an Hour, Suffer Most. TRANSPORTATION IS HIT Telegraph and Telephone Wires Are Down in Many Sections and Towns Are Isolated.
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Yes! We Have No Bananas
Frank Silver & Irving Cohn
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Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Giorgos Seferis (1900)
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741)
- Pope Innocent XII (1615)
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899)
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
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
37,705 days ago
(103 years, 110 days)