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Friday, September 10, 1926
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The Headlines
BROOKLYN COUPLE END LIVES IN HOTEL; Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Doyle, Their Means Gone, Take Poison in Washington. FRIEND CALLS TOO LATE Telephone Message to Manager Warns They Had Sent Letter Here Telling of Plan. BROOKLYN COUPLE END LIVES IN HOTEL
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Black Bottom
Ray Henderson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Compton (1892)
- Pope Julius III (1487)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839)
- Georges Bataille (1897)
- Henry Purcell (1659)
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
36,428 days ago
(99 years, 293 days)