Saturday, December 17, 1927

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The Headlines

Lindbergh Maps Route for Flights To Six Central American Republics; He Writes in Glowing Terms of Mexican Fliers Whom He Takes Up -- Will Remain in Mexico City Until After Christmas -May See Bull Fight in Courtesy to Hosts.

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Humphry Davy (1778)
• Willard Libby (1908)
• Joseph Henry (1797)
• Émilie du Châtelet (1706)
• Simo Häyhä (1905)

Slang

Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)