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Monday, April 6, 1925
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The Headlines
KILLS SWEETHEART BUT WON'T TELL WHY; Veteran Pours Five Bullets Into Girl's Body on Outing to Greenwich Park. THEN INFORMS THE POLICE Leads Officers to Body and Says He Invited Her Out With Intent to Kill. Beatrice Donnelly, 24 years old, of 208 West Eighty-second Street, was shot to death in a wood near Greenwich, Conn., yesterday afternoon by James O'Mahony, 27, of 312 East Fifty-first Street, under circumstances which the police of New York and Greenwich have been unable thus far to unravel. KILLS SWEETHEART, BUT WON'T TELL WHY
Read in The New York Times →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
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
36,950 days ago
(101 years, 85 days)