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Monday, August 29, 1927
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The Headlines
SACCO AND VANZETTI FOLLOWED BY 7,000 IN BOSTON FUNERAL; Nearly 200,000 Watch Paraders -- Mounted Police Charge the Crowd at the Cemetery. MARCHERS MAKE THREATS American Flag Is Torn to Shreds During Demonstration in London. SACCO AND VANZETTI FOLLOWED BY 7,000
Read in The New York Times →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
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
36,076 days ago
(98 years, 306 days)