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Monday, April 26, 1926

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The Headlines

$70,076,125 A YEAR WOULD MAKE STATE DRY, SAYS BUCKNER; Gives Senate Detailed Figures for 'Reasonable' Prohibition Enforcement. $11,441,000 IN HIS DISTRICT $20,021,750 for State, He Says, if Jury Trials Are Abolished, U.S. Police Courts Set Up. ALCOHOL DIVERSION HUGE 60,000,000-Gallon Leak Into Rum Trade in Year, He Figures, and Output Is Soaring. $70,076,125 TO DRY STATE, SAYS BUCKNER

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1926

  • It girl

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

36,566 days ago

(100 years, 66 days)