Every story from every edition, sorted by section. Prices are converted into today's dollars.
In 1926, a family did not need $380 in the bank to own a Ford. A down payment and a year of monthly bills put cars, radios and washing machines into millions of homes.
A hundred years ago the price of gold was not set by a market. It was written into U.S. law. Here is what that meant, and what an ounce costs now.
In November 1926 the nation's highways got numbers, and a 2,448-mile road from Chicago to Los Angeles got the most famous one of all. Gas stations, diners and motels followed.
In the autumn of 1926, Erik Rotheim of Oslo asked for a patent on a bottle that could spray its contents under its own pressure. The idea now sits in almost every bathroom and kitchen.
A hundred years ago, a dollar filled a basket with eggs, milk and sugar. Put those prices into today’s money and a happy surprise appears: most of that basket costs far less now.
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