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Friday, February 13, 1925
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The Headlines
CAVE DRILL REACHES A CAVERNOUS AREA; NEW RESCUE HOPE; But Engineers Admit Seven-Foot Section of Limestone Is Big Obstacle. SHAFT IS NOW DOWN 53 FEET Optimistic Workers Think They May Reach Passageway to Collins at Any Moment. BUT OTHERS ARE DUBIOUS Progress Is Slow All Day Because of Constant Need of Re-timbering.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766)
- William Shockley (1910)
- Georges Simenon (1903)
- Ivan Krylov (1769)
- Pope Alexander VII (1599)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
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
37,002 days ago
(101 years, 137 days)