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Sunday, August 30, 1925
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The Headlines
COAL PERSISTS AS A GIGANTIC ISSUE; Miners Demand Higher Wages, While Coal Interests, Largely Controlled by Railroads, Say That Public Would Have to Pay Increase, and This Would Result in Use of Substitutes, Killing Industry COAL PERSISTS AS AN ISSUE: THE POINTS IN CONTROVERSY
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
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
- Edward Mills Purcell (1912)
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
36,804 days ago
(100 years, 304 days)