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Tuesday, February 16, 1926
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The Headlines
GUTENBERG BIBLE SELLS FOR $106,000; Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach Pays High Price for Rare Work of First Printer. ONLY 45 ARE IN EXISTENCE Book Is in Two Volumes and Is One of the First Printed From Movable Type. GUTENBERG BIBLE SELLS FOR $106,000
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Black Bottom
Ray Henderson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Octave Mirbeau (1848)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497)
- Francis Galton (1822)
- Radoje Domanović (1873)
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
36,634 days ago
(100 years, 134 days)