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Saturday, October 24, 1925

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The Headlines

SCAFFA IS INDICTED IN DONAHUE GEM CASE; Detective Who Got Jewels Back Is Charged With Compounding a Felony. COSDEN THEFT IS REOPENED Scaffa Gives Details in Recovery of Part of $100,000 Loot That May Clear Up Mystery. SCAFFA INDICTED IN DONAHUE GEM CASE

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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

36,749 days ago

(100 years, 249 days)