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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

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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

36,005 days ago

(98 years, 235 days)