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Saturday, February 19, 1927
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The Headlines
MUSEUM'S HUNTER DESCRIBES TORTURE; J.L. Clark Says He and Morden Hoped to Be Shot to Escape Suffering in Mongol Hut. FREED WHEN AWAITING END Many Perils Had Been Passed in Turkestan Before Their Capture on Way to Peking. MUSEUM'S HUNTER DESCRIBES TORTURE
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
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
- Svante Arrhenius (1859)
- André Breton (1896)
- Élie Ducommun (1833)
- Shivaji (1630)
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
36,266 days ago
(99 years, 131 days)