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Thursday, September 15, 1927
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The Headlines
700 JAPANESE DEAD IN GREAT TYPHOON; Total Likely to Rise as the Communications Are Restored to Storm-Bound Towns. MEXICANS COWER IN HILLS Thousands of Flood Refugees Homeless -- Ships Missing and Seaports Battered. 700 JAPANESE DEAD IN GREAT TYPHOON
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
36,058 days ago
(98 years, 288 days)