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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
Read in The New York Times →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
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)