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Monday, October 19, 1925
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The Headlines
15 YALE MEN HURT IN FALL INTO QUARRY; Professor and Geology Class Drop Into 40-Foot Middletown Pit as Staging Slips. ALL TORN BY JAGGED ROCKS Five Are Severely Injured -- Rescue Effected With Rope and Ladder. 15 YALE MEN HURT IN FALL INTO QUARRY
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
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433)
- Thomas Browne (1605)
- Jean Dausset (1916)
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
36,754 days ago
(100 years, 254 days)