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Thursday, September 30, 1926

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The Headlines

43 MINERS SAVED FROM LIVING DEATH; 120 HOURS IN TRAP; Rescuers Find Ironwood (Mich.) Workers Safe and Sound 727 Feet Underground. REACHED BY PERILOUS WAY Entombed Men Had Plenty of Water and Brewed Birchbark Tea for Warmth. TOWN IS WILD WITH JOY Food Is Sent Down to Hungry Band, Who Later Are Brought Up to the Surface.

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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

36,408 days ago

(99 years, 273 days)