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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

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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

Catchphrases of 1926

  • It girl

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)