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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

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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

36,724 days ago

(100 years, 224 days)