Friday, December 11, 1925

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The Headlines

61 MINERS KILLED BY GAS EXPLOSION IN ALABAMA SLOPE; Five Others Are Badly Burned by Unexplained Blast in Workings Near Birmingham. 15 ON LEDGE ESCAPE INJURY Rescue Work Is Rushed, but Is Handicapped by Noxious Odors in the Mine. FAMILIES WAIT ON SURFACE Company Officials Assert That the Colliery Was Equipped With All the Latest Safety Devices.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Walter Donaldson

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Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
• Hector Berlioz (1803)
• Robert Koch (1843)
• Max Born (1882)

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Tech Check

Mechanical Television, The Leica I & Masking Tape.

Cost of Living (1920)