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Tuesday, February 3, 1925

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The Headlines

RUSH WORK TO SAVE MAN PINNED DOWN IN KENTUCKY CAVE; Rescuers Bring Up a Jack in Desperate Effort to Free Collins from 7-Ton Rock. HE IS DELIRIOUS AT TIMES His Brother Offers $500 to Any Physician Who Can Relieve His Suffering. SOME FOOD GOT TO HIM He Directs That Old Friend Take Charge of the Work as His Brothers Collapse. RUSH WORK TO SAVE PRISONER IN CAVE

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Walter Donaldson

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 1925

  • The business of America is business

Tech Check

Mechanical Television, The Leica I & Masking Tape.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

37,012 days ago

(101 years, 147 days)