Friday, February 19, 1926

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The Headlines

FIRST COAL STARTS ROLLING EASTWARD AS MINERS PLY PICKS; Trains Rumble Through the Night to Tidewater With Day's Diggings. BULK OF THE MEN AT WORK Fear of Accidents Keeps Many Away Till Today -- One Is Killed by Black Damp. ALL ARE 'GLAD TO GET BACK' Veterans Quickly Find Way to Their Old "Chambers" and Begin Work of Blasting.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

You Share a Birthday With

• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
• Svante Arrhenius (1859)
• André Breton (1896)
• Shivaji (1630)
• Élie Ducommun (1833)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)