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Sunday, July 17, 1927

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The Headlines

CRISIS DRAWS NEAR IN INDIANA SCANDAL; Public Opinion Now Demands Full Light on Corruption Confessed by Stephenson. PROSECUTOR GATHERS DATA Remy's Apparent Determination to Act Causes Trembling Among Many Higher-Ups. GOVERNOR SCORNS CONVICT But There Is Wide Belief That Jackson Will Yet Pardon the Former Klan Leader.

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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

36,118 days ago

(98 years, 348 days)