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Saturday, November 24, 1923
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The Headlines
HOTEL MARGARET, ABLAZE IN BROOKLYN, DEFIES FIRE FORCES; Brigade of Apparatus Fights Three Hours Against High Wind and Low Pressure. 150 GUESTS ARE RESCUED Elevators, Police and Firemen Bring Them Down From Upper Floors, Where Fire Started. NINE PERSONS ARE INJURED Seven of Them Were Firemen -- Flames Light Up Whole City and Bay. HOTEL MARGARET ABLAZEIN BROOKLYN
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
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
37,450 days ago
(102 years, 220 days)