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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

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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

36,249 days ago

(99 years, 114 days)