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Tuesday, September 14, 1926
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The Headlines
NEW YORKER SEIZED BY MEXICAN BANDITS; AUTO PARTY ROBBED; Jacob Rosenthal of Woodmere, Retired Merchant, Is Carried Off Into Mountains. DIPLOMAT EVADES ATTACK Lane, Embassy Secretary, Believed to Be Intended Victim, Was Warned in Time. MANY TROOPS IN PURSUIT Calles Government Moves With Vigor as America Makes Urgent Representations. NEW YORKER SEIZED BY MEXICAN BANDITS
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
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769)
- Francisco de Quevedo (1580)
- al-Ma'mun (768)
- Margaret Sanger (1879)
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486)
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
36,424 days ago
(99 years, 289 days)