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Wednesday, October 21, 1925
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The Headlines
END OF LONG ISLAND ON A QUIET BOOM; 3,000 Acres Bought for Phipps Estates to Be Developed at Cost of $20,000,000. SOARING OF VALUES TOLD Agent Says Big Florida Operators Have Turned to Shore Front Near New York. BND O tONG SkaD ON A QUIET BO0
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
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
- Hongwu Emperor (1328)
- Dizzy Gillespie (1917)
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
36,752 days ago
(100 years, 252 days)