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Thursday, May 26, 1927
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The Headlines
PAYNE WHITNEY DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME; Financier, 51, Stricken With Indigestion in Tennis Game at Manhasset, L.I. WIFE SPEEDS TO HIM IN VAIN He Succumbs in 25 Minutes -Wealth Put at $100,000,000 -- Noted as Sportsman. PAYNE WHITNEY DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
On This Day
The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
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You Share a Birthday With
- John Wayne (1907)
- Miles Davis (1926)
- Pope Clement VII (1478)
- Mehmed III (1566)
- János Kádár (1912)
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
36,171 days ago
(99 years, 36 days)