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Sunday, September 4, 1927

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The Headlines

BITTER FIGHT RAGES ON TERM EXTENSION; New Jersey Republicans Insist Separate Gubernatorial Race Wastes State Funds. DEMOCRATS SEE ONLY PLOT Charge Effort Is Being Made to Get Aid of Sentiment Stirred in Presidential Years. MOORE URGES REGISTRATION Reeves Says Changes Will Save Money by Reducing Number of Elections. BITTER FIGHT RAGES ON TERM EXTENSION

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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

36,070 days ago

(98 years, 300 days)