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Wednesday, June 13, 1923
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The Headlines
BANDITS SET FREE 8 FOREIGN CAPTIVES, RAGGED AND WORN; Prisoners, Who Include 4 Americans, Get Baths and Food, Then Start for Shanghai.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Frank Silver & Irving Cohn
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831)
- W. B. Yeats (1865)
- Fernando Pessoa (1888)
- Thomas Young (scientist) (1773)
- Charles the Bald (823)
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
37,613 days ago
(103 years, 18 days)