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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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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

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

37,705 days ago

(103 years, 110 days)