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Saturday, October 15, 1927
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The Headlines
Dr. Wynne and 3 Patients Held Up in Office; Armed Youths Menace Victims, Steal $3,840
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Akbar (1542)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
- Michel Foucault (1926)
- Evangelista Torricelli (1608)
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
36,029 days ago
(98 years, 259 days)