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Friday, October 19, 1923
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The Headlines
ARREST 11 IN PLOT TO FLOOD NEW YORK WITH JERSEY BEER; Former Secretary to Edwards Among Prisoners Seized by Federal Agents. $800,000 BRIBERY CHARGED Four Brewers Taken -- Thousands Paid Weekly for Monopoly, Detectives Say. TRAP SET IN HOTEL SUITE " Political Leaders" in the Traffic, Haynes Asserts -- Raid Follows Indictments.
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
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433)
- Thomas Browne (1605)
- Jean Dausset (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
37,486 days ago
(102 years, 256 days)