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Friday, July 24, 1925

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The Headlines

CRAIG SAYS SINNOTT FIRM GOT A MILLION ON CITY CONTRACTS; Controller Estimates That It Is Making $250,000 a Year on Municipal Business. FROM PEANUTS TO SUBWAY' Asserts Concern Headed by Brother of Mayor's Son-in-Law Takes Toll Everywhere. CALLS IT DRAIN ON PUBLIC Charles That Bonding Will Make One Section of Hylan Tube Cost $172,000 More. CRAIG SAYS SINNOTT FIRM GOT A MILLION

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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

36,841 days ago

(100 years, 341 days)