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Wednesday, October 5, 1927

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The Headlines

YANKS, FAVORED 7-5, FACE PIRATES TODAY IN WORLD'S SERIES; Forbes Field to Be Packed to 42,000 Capacity -- Perfect Weather Predicted. PITTSBURGH BASEBALL MAD Interest in Ruth and Gehrig Intense -- Series Gate May Reach Record of $1,300,000. SCALPERS ASK $25 TICKET Sale Lags Under Prohibitive Price -- Bush Confident, Huggins Noncommittal, Both Teams Fit. Yankees and Pirates Set to Open World's Series Today; Hugmen Favored, 7-5

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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

36,038 days ago

(98 years, 268 days)