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Wednesday, May 20, 1925

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The Headlines

COOLIDGE TO PRESS DRY LAW TO LIMIT, WATSON DECLARES; Senator Tells Couzens Committee That Every Agency of Government Will Be Used. SAYS PUBLIC CAN THEN ACT If Modification Is Wanted, the President, He Asserts, Believes the People Then Will Say So. GERMANS SENDING 'SCOTCH' Big Camouflaged Shipment Said to Be on the Way Here -- The Beginning of a Flood. COOLIDGE TO PRESS DRY LAW TO LIMIT

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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

36,906 days ago

(101 years, 41 days)