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Monday, May 31, 1926

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The Headlines

PHILADELPHIA OPENS SESQUICENTENNIAL TODAY WITH 151 GUNS; Message From Coolidge Will Be Read -- Secretaries Kellogg and Hoover Will Speak. THEY WILL HEAD PARADE Planes Will Drop Flowers, While Moment of Silence Honors War Dead. INAUGURAL BALL AT NIGHT Officials Expect 30,000,000 People to Join in Six Months' Celebration of Independence. PHILADELPHIA OPENS SESQUICENTENNIAL

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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

36,531 days ago

(100 years, 31 days)