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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.
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
- Rumi (1207)
- Truman Capote (1924)
- Jean Perrin (1870)
- Pope Nicholas IV (1227)
- Deborah Kerr (1921)
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
36,408 days ago
(99 years, 273 days)