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Saturday, October 8, 1927

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The Headlines

HUERTA'S BROTHER SHOT BY FEDERALS IN MEXICAN REVOLT; Alfonso Was Put to Death, One Report Says -- Fell Fighting Troops, Another Declares. OTHER GENERALS EXECUTED Gomez in Retreat, Government Asserts -- Newspaper Founder Jailed in Capital. HUERTA NOW GOMEZ'S ALLY Former President, in Los Angeles, Declares He Is in Accord With Any Move to Oust Calles. HUERTA'S BROTHER SHOT BY FEDERALS

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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

36,035 days ago

(98 years, 265 days)