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Monday, December 13, 1926

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The Headlines

BLUE LAW RAID NETS 98 SUNDAY WORKERS IN IRVINGTON, N.J.; Counsel for Movies Forced to Close Retaliates by Drive on All Business. 4 JAILED, BUT GO FREE LATER Trolley and Bus Men, Merchants, Bootblacks Among Prisoners Who Give $2 Bond Each. HEARING TO BE HELD TODAY Street Car Company, Prepared for Drive, Gets Extra Motormen -Fiddler Is a Victim Also. 98 IN IRVINGTON, N.J., SEIZED IN ROUND-UP

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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

36,334 days ago

(99 years, 199 days)