Monday, August 16, 1926

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The Headlines

SMITH AND WAGNER LIKELY TO BE NAMED BY STATE DEMOCRATS; Leaders' Purpose Unaltered by Governor's Plea at Buffalo That He Doesn't Want to Run. BOOM FOR JUSTICE GROWS Olvany Favors Him for Senate, Seeing Chance to Enhance His and Tammany's Prestige. REPUBLICANS STILL WAVER Ottinger Candidacy to Head Ticket Revived -- Wadsworth Uneasy Over Opposition to a Wet. SMITH AND WAGNER LIKELY TO BE NAMED

Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

You Share a Birthday With

• Zachary Taylor (1816)
• Charles Bukowski (1920)
• Menachem Begin (1913)
• Gabriel Lippmann (1845)
• T. E. Lawrence (1888)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)