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Tuesday, August 4, 1925
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The Headlines
HOLD-UP IN SUBWAY AS BIG CROWDS PASS; Agent at 96th St. Station Is Forced Under Bench While Robber Makes Change. ANOTHER GETS MONEY BAGS Both Escape With $581, Leaving Only One Nickel -- Phone Wires Cut to Prevent Alarm. r HOLD-UP IN SUBWAY AS BIG CROWDS PASS
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900)
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805)
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
36,830 days ago
(100 years, 330 days)