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Saturday, March 27, 1926
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The Headlines
YOUNG COUPLE HELD IN $300,000 FRAUD; Accused of Inducing Friends and Others to Buy Telephone Stock They Never Got. MADE $100,000 FIRST YEAR Police Say Both Confessed and That Wife Evolved Scheme Which Husband Aided. YOUNG COUPLE HELD IN $300,000 FRAUD
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
- Wilhelm Röntgen (1845)
- James Callaghan (1912)
- Gloria Swanson (1899)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886)
- Eisaku Satō (1901)
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
36,595 days ago
(100 years, 95 days)