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Monday, April 25, 1927

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The Headlines

CONVICT ESCAPES IN DIVE OFF TRAIN; Leaps Through Window After Removing Manacle on Way From Sing Sing. ANOTHER FUGITIVE GIVES UP Joseph Pioli, Who Mysteriously Fled With George Walmale, Is Held in San Diego. CONVICT ESCAPES IN DIVE OFF TRAIN

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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

36,202 days ago

(99 years, 67 days)