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Wednesday, April 6, 1927
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The Headlines
CHICAGO ELECTS THOMPSON, POLLING A RECORD VOTE; POLICE AWE GANGSTERS; LEADS DEVER BY 83,072 Thompson Aided by Underworld, Expecting a Wide Open City. BOMBS WRECK CLUBHOUSES Armed Gang Seizes One Precinct, but Election Is Without Fatalities. 1,000,000 VOTE FOR MAYOR Loop Resounds to Wild Jubilation as Victor Broadcasts 'America First' Policy.
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
36,220 days ago
(99 years, 85 days)