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Monday, January 18, 1926
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The Headlines
LEWIS CALLS MINERS TO LAST DITCH FIGHT IN PRESERVING UNION; They Won't Be Crushed, Even if Strike Lasts a Year, He Tells 15,000 at Wilkes-Barre. SEES OPERATORS DEFEATED Leader Declares Men United and Backed by Resources of All Organized Labor. PINCHOT PLANS NEW MOVE Governor Prepares to Go Before the Legislature With an Appeal for Anthracite Control. LEWIS CALLS MINERS TO LAST DITCH FIGHT
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Black Bottom
Ray Henderson
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
Tech Check
Liquid Fuel Rocket, Talking Movies (Vitaphone) & Aerosol Spray Can.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,663 days ago
(100 years, 163 days)