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Monday, August 31, 1925

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The Headlines

ALBRIGHT DEFENDS YELLOWSTONE RULE; CHIDES SENATORS; Park Superintendent Replies in Detail to Complaints Made at Inquiry. DENIES ANY FAVORITISM Declares Witnesses Were Bootleggers, Ex-Employes and an Unethical Doctor. CAMP REGULATIONS UPHELD Rich and Poor Are Treated Alike, He Says, and All Wild Life Is Fully Protected. ALBRIGHT DEFENDS YELLOW STONE RULE

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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

36,803 days ago

(100 years, 303 days)