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Sunday, February 22, 1925

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The Headlines

PELL REACHES FINAL IN RACQUETS PLAY; Champion, Trailing From Start, Beats Morgan After 5 Games in National Tourney. STAGES A BRILLIANT RALLY Thrills Gallery at Racquet and Tennis Club With Fast and Strategic Attack. MORTIMER ALSO IS VICTOR Last Year's Runner-Up Triumphs Over Pearson of Philadelphia, 15-10, 15-7, 16-18, 11-15, 15-11. PELL GAINS FINAL IN RACQUETS PLAY

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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

36,993 days ago

(101 years, 128 days)