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Saturday, July 12, 1924
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The Headlines
LA FOLLETTE PLANS DRIVE IN THE EAST; NEW YORK HIS BASE; Plans Big Meeting Here and Will Carry Campaign to Other Industrial Cities. CONFERS WITH RAIL GROUP Makes First Speech Before Members of Several Brotherhoods -- Johnston Present. FINANCE MEETING TODAY Committee Will Decide Ways of Getting Contributions -- Vice Presidency Announcement Next Week. LA FOLLETTE PLANS DRIVE IN THE EAST
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Fascinating Rhythm
George Gershwin
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Claude Bernard (1813)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Loudspeakers, Frozen Food Process & Spiral Notebooks.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
37,219 days ago
(101 years, 354 days)