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Wednesday, November 18, 1925
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The Headlines
TWO GANGS SEIZED AS DIAMOND THIEVES IN WIDE ROUND-UP; Eight Men in Broadway Rings Are Caught by Trailing a Maiden Lane "Pathfinder." LOOT MORE THAN $250,000 Detectives Block Auto and Handcuff Three -- "Big Dave" Jerus Taken at Claridge. ALL IDENTIFIED BY VICTIMS Steel Wire Found In Apartment Raids -- Big Robberies Cleared Up -- Three Women in Toils. TWO GANGS SEIZED AS DIAMOND THIEVES
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
- Louis Daguerre (1787)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786)
- Patrick Blackett (1897)
- Pierre Bayle (1647)
- Alan Shepard (1923)
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
36,724 days ago
(100 years, 224 days)