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Tuesday, December 6, 1927

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The Headlines

MRS. LILLIENDAHL IN TEARS INSISTS ON HER INNOCENCE; SAYS SHE FEARED FRAME-UP; CLINGS TO HOLD-UP STORY Admits Husband's Rift With Beach Was Due Partly to Gossip. SPARS WITH PROSECUTOR She Suspects the Police, She Says in Denying She Made the Guide Marks on Map. HER ORDEAL NOT YET OVER Faces Renewed Cross-Examination Today -- State to Offer Many Rebuttal Witnesses. MRS. LILLIENDAHL ASSERTS INNOCENCE

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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

35,976 days ago

(98 years, 206 days)