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Tuesday, November 8, 1927
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The Headlines
BIG VOTE PREDICTED IN CITY AND STATE IN TODAY'S ELECTION; 1,000,000 Expected to Go to Polls Here -- Keen Interest Is Shown in Amendments. 51 MAYORALTY CONTESTS Alderman and Assembly Fights Stir Voters -- Machines to Speed Count of Ballot. POLLS OPEN 6 A.M. TO 6 P.M. Cloudy Weather Likely to Have Adverse Effect -- Fireworks Lacking as Campaigns Close. BIG VOTE PREDICTED IN CITY AND STATE
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
- Bram Stoker (1847)
- Margaret Mitchell (1900)
- Edmond Halley (1656)
- Gottlob Frege (1848)
- Jack Kilby (1923)
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
36,005 days ago
(98 years, 235 days)