Sunday, September 2, 1923

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The Headlines

$40,536,300 ASKED FOR NEW SCHOOLS; Maintenance of System Next Year Figured in Budget as $98,150,898.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Kantō Massacre: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting acts of sabotage in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, lynch mobs of Japanese begin massacring thousands of civilians over the course of several weeks, mainly ethnic minorities such as Koreans and Chinese.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Wilhelm Ostwald (1853)
• Frederick Soddy (1877)
• Liliʻuokalani (1838)
• Arthur Ashkin (1922)
• Bill Shankly (1913)

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Tech Check

Bulldozer, 16mm Film & Hearing Aid (Vacuum Tube).

Cost of Living (1920)