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Sunday, October 14, 1934

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The Headlines

STOLL KIDNAPPER HAS NOT CLAIMED RANSOM OF $50,000; Concern of Family Grows as Money Remains at Nashville and No Word Comes. POLICE BEGIN SEARCHING They Find at Old Boathouse Stains Resembling Blood and Phone Book Clue. VICTIM WAS A SUBSTITUTE Note Indicates Abductor Had Intended to Take C. C. Stoll, Father-in-Law, Instead. KIDNAPPER FAILS TO CLAIM RANSOM

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

damefellaswelllousy

Hardboiled

clip jointgriftershamusgunsel

Swing Era

alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove

Catchphrases of 1934

  • It happened one night

Tech Check

Cat's Eye Road Studs, Telex & Hammond Organ.

Cost of Living (1930)

Loaf of Bread

$0.09

Gallon of Gas

$0.20

Average Home

$3,900

New Car

$640

Time Elapsed

33,472 days ago

(91 years, 257 days)