In 1927...

The Prime Minister of Canada
was
Mackenzie King 		The Premier of Manitoba
was
John Bracken 		The Mayor of the City of Winnipeg
was
Lt. Col. Ralph Humphreys Webb, D.S.O., M.C.

Radios were getting a little fancier. The Synchrophase had more dials so you could "tune in" better.
Everyready batteries allowed you to have portability with your radio... if you could lift the battery!
This was the 1927 line of Buicks.
An Oil-O-Matic Heater might keep your house warm during those long winter months...
and a "Kelvinator" might keep you cool in summer by allowing you to make your own ice cubes!
Perhaps you wrote down all of these experiences and more using your "flashy" Esterbrook pen.

What happened in 1927?

  • Charles Lindbergh flew solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis".

  • Baseball's Babe Ruth scored a record 60 home runs for the New York Yankees.

  • The American modern dancer Isadora Duncan was killed when her scarf got tangled in the wheel of a Bugatti driven by her lover.

  • American writer Thorton Wilder published "The Bridge of San Luis Rey". English novelist Virginia Woolf wrote "To The Lighthouse". German-Suiss author Hermann Hesse published "Steppenwolf".

  • The comedy team of Laurel and Hardy appeared in their first movie "Putting Pants on Phillip".

  • Duke Ellington's jazz band starred at Harlem's Cotton Club in New York

  • Blackface singer Al Jolson appeared in the Jazz Singer, the first sound motion picture or "talkie".

  • George Lemaitre proposed an expanding model for the creation of the universe ... The Big Bang Theory!

  • The land speed record was broken. Henry Seagrave exceeded 200 miles per hour driving a 1000hp Sunbeam (203.70 mph). Britain won the Schneider Trophy air race at 281 miles per hour.

  • Mao Tse-tung founded the Red Army of China.

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