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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.

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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

35,633 days ago

(97 years, 228 days)