Friday, May 27, 1927

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The Headlines

HUGE CROWDS LINE STREETS; Common People Acclaim Flier on Three-Mile Drive to the City Hall. POLICE FIGHT TO CLEAR WAY There He Gets City's Gold Medal -- He Drops In on War Mutilated and Visits Inter-Allied Club. HIS PLANS ARE UNCERTAIN He Wants to See Much of Europe, but May Cut Short His Visit and Return Next Week.

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Ibn Khaldun (1332)
• Henry Kissinger (1923)
• Christopher Lee (1922)
• Rachel Carson (1907)
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)