Wednesday, May 18, 1927

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The Headlines

DOCTORS OPEN FIGHT ON DRY CURB TODAY; Resolution to Be Offered Will Demand Full Rein in Prescribing Alcohol. WET MOVE, SAYS WHEELER Coolidge in Address to the Convention Lauds Progress in Medical Science. DOCTORS OPEN FIGHT ON DRY CURB TODAY

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

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Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.

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• The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township, Michigan.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pope John Paul II (1920)
• Bertrand Russell (1872)
• Omar Khayyam (1048)
• Nicholas II (1868)
• Walter Gropius (1883)

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Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)