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Friday, December 21, 1923

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The Headlines

TUCKER BOY REWEDS HIS WIFE IN SOUTH; Marriage Ceremony Performed by a North Carolina Justice of the Peace. MUST FACE JERSEY CHARGES Bridal Pair Will Be Prosecuted for Perjury -- Remarriage Does Not Release Them.

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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

  • United Kingdom and Nepal formally sign an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.

    Wikipedia →

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

37,422 days ago

(102 years, 192 days)