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Thursday, October 22, 1925
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The Headlines
RAID JEWEL OFFICE, BIND FOUR VICTIMS, GET $50,000 GEMS; Two Robbers Use Wire to Tie Diamond Brokers in Fulton Street Building. GET $40,000 FROM ONE Dealer Walks Into Danger and Is Promptly Relieved of Heavy Wallet. POLICE CORDON A FAILURE Crowd Watches Search of Eight Floors -- One Man Defies Death Threat. RAID JEWEL OFFICE, GET $50,000 GEMS
Read in The New York Times →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
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
36,751 days ago
(100 years, 251 days)