Friday, December 17, 1926

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The Headlines

HECKSCHER MILLION FOR CENTRAL PARK; W.B. Roulstone Tells Estimate Board Group Is Ready to Match Like Sum by City.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Humphry Davy (1778)
• Willard Libby (1908)
• Joseph Henry (1797)
• Émilie du Châtelet (1706)
• Simo Häyhä (1905)

Slang

Tech Check

Liquid Fuel Rocket, Talking Movies (Vitaphone) & Aerosol Spray Can.

Cost of Living (1920)