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Tuesday, August 28, 1923
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The Headlines
DEATH BY CYANIDE MYSTERY TO POLICE; J. H. Sutphen Found in His Central Park Apartment With 3 Guests Asleep.
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
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Jack Kirby (1917)
- Godfrey Hounsfield (1919)
- George Whipple (1878)
- C. Wright Mills (1916)
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
37,538 days ago
(102 years, 308 days)