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Tuesday, November 13, 1928
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The Headlines
339 TAKE TO LIFEBOATS AS LINER VESTRIS SINKS; RESCUERS FIND SOME SURVIVORS IN DARKNESS; NINE VESSELS SCOUR SEA AT DISASTER SCENE; THE LINER VESTRIS AND POINT OFF VIRGINIA COAST WHERE SHE SANK. Line Officials Are Optimistic 14 Ships in Rescue Fleet. Broadcasting on Land Halts. Message From Captain. Believe Seas Did Damage. Officers Long in Service. WYOMING SPEEDS TO SCENE. Battleship Ordered to Aid Survivors --Coast Guard Ship Puts Out. LINER TELLS OF GALE AT SEA. California Arrives After Fighting Northwest Storm Sunday. SEA DISASTERS RECALLED. Sinking of Titanic, With 1,517 Aboard, One of Worst Tragedies. WOMAN ON FIRST SEA TRIP. Mrs. Daugherty of Philadelphia Was on Vestris on Way to Daughter. DAVIES WELL KNOWN HERE. Newspaper Man Among Passengers of the Vestris.
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
- Augustine of Hippo (354)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850)
- Edward III (1312)
- Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893)
- Ranjit Singh (1780)
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
35,633 days ago
(97 years, 228 days)