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Tuesday, March 8, 1927
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The Headlines
CANTONESE SPLIT BY RED INFLUENCE AND CHIEFS' RIVALRY; Despite Report of Another Yangtse Province Won, Their Advance Halts. NORTH GAINING STRENGTH Years of Warfare Between Rival Chiefs in Prospect, Though Shanghai Is More Secure. PEKING REPEATS ITS TERMS Chang Tso-lin Offers to Negotiate Frankly With South if Russians Are Eliminated. CANTONESE SPLIT BY RED INFLUENCE
Read in The New York Times →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
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
36,249 days ago
(99 years, 114 days)