Tuesday, August 23, 1927

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The Headlines

Society Gets Old Irving Home For Centre of Patriotic Work

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Louis XVI (1754)
• Edgar de Wahl (1867)
• Georges Cuvier (1769)
• Gene Kelly (1912)
• Kenneth Arrow (1921)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)