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Monday, April 23, 1923

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The Headlines

JERSEY FOREST FIRE DESTROYS 23 HOMES CHURCH AND SCHOOL; Flames Lay Waste 30,000 Acres of Woodland and Threaten Big Lakehurst Airship. NIGHT RAIN BRINGS RELIEF Seven Fires Still Raging in Passaic County -- Volunteers Are Called From 10-Mile Radius. BIG LOSS ON STATEN ISLAND $1,000,000 Damage to Copper Plant at Tottenville and Ferry at Holland's Hook. JERSEY FOREST FIRE DESTROYS 23 HOMES

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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

37,664 days ago

(103 years, 69 days)