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Wednesday, November 24, 1926
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The Headlines
WILLIE STEVENS ON STAND DENIES MURDER; REMAINS CALM UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION; FINGERPRINT NOT HIS, THREE TESTIFY; WITNESS A GREAT SURPRISE Weighs His Words and Speaks Clearly as He Admits Owning Pistol. EVADES SIMPSON'S TRAPS " Absolutely Nothing at All," Is Reply When Asked if He Had Anything to Do With Crime. MRS. HALL UNDER A STRAIN Defense Witness Hints That Calling Card Found at the Scene Was "Doctored." WILLIE STEVENS DENIES MURDER
Read in The New York Times →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
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
36,354 days ago
(99 years, 219 days)