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Wednesday, April 8, 1925
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The Headlines
CHICAGO DEFEATS TRACTION PURCHASE BY ABOVE 100,000; City Ownership and Operation Ordinances, Affecting Street and Elevated Lines, Lose. DEVER WILL KEEP UP FIGHT Says He Will Offer New Plans -- Aldermanic Upsets Shown, With Thompson Men Beaten. OVER $621,000,000 INVOLVED Milwaukee Rejects Service-at-Cost Plan -- Elections Held in Other Cities.
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
36,948 days ago
(101 years, 83 days)