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Tuesday, September 4, 1928

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The Headlines

BOARD SCORES I.R.T. FOR RUNNING TRAIN INTO TUNNEL FUMES; Finds Motorman Should Have Stopped on Seeing Smoke and Ordered Blowers On. CARS AHEAD LOST CONTACTS Delay Charged in Reporting 11 Shoes Broken--They Caused Short-Circuit Blaze. SUBWAY SAFE, HEDLEY SAYS Pledges Continued Vigilance to Curb Mishaps--Dead in Times Square Crash Now 17. Say Train Should Have Halted. Can't Eliminate Short Circuits. BOARD SCORES I.R.T. ON QUEENS ACCIDENT Seventeenth Wreck Victim Dies. Text of Board's Report. Passengers Become Excited.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Makin' Whoopee

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Mickey Mouse Doll

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1928

  • I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

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

35,704 days ago

(97 years, 299 days)