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Wednesday, September 15, 1926

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The Headlines

CANADA VINDICATING PARTY BYNG OUSTED; BIG LIBERAL GAINS; Ex-Premier Mackenzie King Now Likely to Get Majority of the Commons. SIX MINISTERS ARE BEATEN Premier Meighen Loses Heavily in East and Is Defeated in His Own County. GOVERNOR WAS AN ISSUE Refusal to Dissolve Parliament for Liberals Produced the Present Crisis in Dominion. CANADA VINDICATING PARTY BYNG OUSTED

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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

Catchphrases of 1926

  • It girl

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

36,423 days ago

(99 years, 288 days)