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Thursday, December 3, 1925

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The Headlines

TEMPLE EMANU-EL CLOSES 5TH AV. DEAL; Buys Astor Home and Sells 43d Street Site Subject to Congregation's Approval. TO RAZE FAMOUS BUILDINGS Winter Will Put Up Office Structure at 43d -- Land Held at $350 a Square Foot. TEMPLE EMANU-EL CLOSES 5TH AV. DEAL

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

  • Final agreement is signed between the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom formalizing the Partition of Ireland.

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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

36,709 days ago

(100 years, 209 days)