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Friday, September 28, 1923

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The Headlines

CALL ON COOLIDGE TO STABILIZE WHEAT AT HIGHER PRICES; Leaders From Northwest Urge That Grain Corporation Be Re- vived and Freight Rates Cut. ASK EXTRA SESSION ALSO Picture Farmer's Plight to the President and Press the Ne- cessity of Immediate Action. HE GIVES THEM NO ANSWER Delegation Confers Later With Sec- retary Wallace and Will See Secretary Hoover Today. CALL ON COOLIDGE TO STABILIZE WHEAT

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

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

37,507 days ago

(102 years, 277 days)