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Thursday, September 13, 1923

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The Headlines

LEACH AND LAHEY LINKED IN RUMORS OF POLICE UP HEAVAL; Coolness Between Enright and His Aids Seen as Sign of Serious Breach. COMMISSIONER IS SILENT Why Department's Bribe Inquiry Was Dropped Is Still Unanswered. PETRUCCI CASE NEAR END Lindsay Falls to Find Two New Witnesses -- 177 on Force Fined for Minor Offenses. LEACH AND LAHEY LINKED IN RUMORS

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

  • Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.

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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

37,521 days ago

(102 years, 291 days)