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Monday, September 24, 1928
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The Headlines
15,000 ILL OF FLU; PORTO RICO FEARFUL; Five Thousand More Have Other Diseases--Campaign to Check Malaria Starts. FIELD HOSPITALS PLANNED Meanwhile Food Situation Is Well in Hand and Red Cross Sends Supplies to Victims.
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
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)
- Konstantin Chernenko (1911)
- İsmet İnönü (1884)
- Gerolamo Cardano (1501)
- Horace Walpole (1717)
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
35,684 days ago
(97 years, 279 days)