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Saturday, February 18, 1928
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The Headlines
IRELAND, CAPITALIST, IS FOUND SHOT DEAD; Wife Finds Body in Hotel With Four Bullet Wounds--Medical Examiner Calls It Suicide. POLICE CONTINUE INQUIRY Puzzled by Lack of Farewell Notes, but Hear Coal Operator Was Ill More Than a Year.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Makin' Whoopee
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Mickey Mouse Doll
You Share a Birthday With
- Alessandro Volta (1745)
- Ramakrishna (1836)
- Mary I of England (1516)
- Ernst Mach (1838)
- Nikos Kazantzakis (1883)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Electric Razor, Penicillin & Bubble Gum.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
35,902 days ago
(98 years, 132 days)