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Sunday, July 22, 1923
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The Headlines
AMERICAN RELIEF SAVED 10,000,000; Famine and Disease in Russia Conquered After Two Years at a Cost of $62,000,000.
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
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
- Janusz Korczak (1878)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
- Selman Waksman (1888)
- Bob Dole (1923)
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
37,574 days ago
(102 years, 344 days)