Wednesday, April 21, 1926

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The Headlines

CHECK CROSSES SEA AS RADIO PICTURE AND IS CASHED HERE; Gen. Harbord Signs It in London -- 20 Minutes Later New York Bank Honors It for $1,000. THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY Houghton and Young Transmit Picturegrams -- Messages Plainly Reproduced. TO BE USED COMMERCIALLY Daily Service to Be Installed in Two Weeks to Speed Up International Business. CHECK CROSSES SEA BY RADIO PICTURE

Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Elizabeth II (1926)
• Max Weber (1864)
• Charlotte Brontë (1816)
• Anthony Quinn (1915)
• Percy Williams Bridgman (1882)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)