Friday, August 6, 1926

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The Headlines

Miss Ederle Will Try Channel Swim Today, Second Attempt at Feat to Start at 7 A. M.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

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• First public screening using the Vitaphone process

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You Share a Birthday With

• Alexander Fleming (1881)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809)
• Lucille Ball (1911)
• Paul Claudel (1868)
• Robert Mitchum (1917)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)