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Tuesday, September 28, 1926

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The Headlines

8 DEAD, 38 HURT IN CRASH OF TRAINS OR CROSSOVER AT BETHLEHEM STATION; EXPRESS HIT BROADSIDE Engine of Jersey Central Flyer Plows into the Lehigh Limited. DEAD ALL IN ONE COACH Steel Car Topples in Impact as Smash Comes With Shrieking Whistles. ENGINEER BLAMES SIGNALS But Lehigh Official Says Pilot of Central Passed Set Block, Running Ahead of Time. TRAIN WRECK IN STATION AT BETHLEHEM, PA. 8 DEAD, 38 HURT IN CROSSING WRECK

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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

36,410 days ago

(99 years, 275 days)