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Monday, January 3, 1927

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The Headlines

DIAZ SEEKS MEXICO THREATENING AGAIN IN NEW FILIBUSTER; President Says Calles Regime Seeks to Yoke Nicaragua With Radicalism. CALLS ISSUE MOMENTOUS Future of All Central America Declared at Stake in the Present Conflict. ISSUES APPEAL TO WORLD Diaz Asks the Support of Public Opinion for Intervention by United States. DIAZ SEES MEXICO THREATENING AGAIN

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Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1927

  • You ain't heard nothin' yet!

Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

36,313 days ago

(99 years, 178 days)