Tuesday, January 26, 1926

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The Headlines

JERSEY PROPOSES A 17-MILE TRANSIT LOOP WITH THIS CITY; Commission's Plan Calls for Tunnels at the Battery and 57th Street. PUTS COST AT $154,000,000 Huge Transfer Station to Be in the Meadows -- Emergency Measures Offered. QUICK ACTION IS ASKED Governor Approves the Program -- A Vast System for Northern Part of State Later. JERSEY PROPOSES LOOP WITH THIS CITY HARKNESS DISCUSSES PLAN.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Douglas MacArthur (1880)
• Paul Newman (1925)
• Charles XIV John (1763)
• Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715)
• Polykarp Kusch (1911)

Slang

Tech Check

Liquid Fuel Rocket, Talking Movies (Vitaphone) & Aerosol Spray Can.

Cost of Living (1920)