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On the date
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
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
36,038 days ago
(98 years, 268 days)