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Wednesday, January 12, 1927
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The Headlines
MAYOR KILLED IN FIGHT; Catholic Demonstrators Said to Have Turned On Cocula Authorities. CITIES REPORTED TAKEN Capital Hears of Armed Catholic Risings in Three States -Bandit Outrages Grow. FEDERALS CLAIM VICTORIES But Army Chief Also Admits Two Defeats by Rebels, With General Killed in One.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
- Charles Perrault (1628)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
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
36,304 days ago
(99 years, 169 days)