Tuesday, December 27, 1927

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The Headlines

LINDBERGH TO HOP TO SOUTH TOMORROW, HIS MOTHER NORTH; As He Leaves Mexico City on Tour She Will Start Flight Homeward. PLOTS GUATEMALA COURSES He Lays Out Alternative Routes and Will Go High to Avoid Central American Hazards. FLIER TRIES FORD PLANE Mrs. Morrow and Children of Embassy Families Are Passengers -- Americans Give Reception.

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

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Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Louis Pasteur (1822)
• Marlene Dietrich (1901)
• Johannes Kepler (1571)
• Ghalib (1797)
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)