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Tuesday, July 7, 1925

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The Headlines

17 NEW YORK CITY BILLS GO; All Measures Enacted by the Municipal Assembly Are Wiped Out. PAY INCREASES AFFECTED Salaries of Hundreds of City Employes Had Been Raised After Budget Adoption. CRAIG'S BUS BILLS FALL Police Control of Taxis and Hirshfield Subpoena Power Go by the Board. DECISION VOIDS NEW YORK CITY BILLS

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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

36,858 days ago

(100 years, 358 days)