Watched some of Harold Lloyd's "Speedy" this evening. Not surprisingly, there are a few websites that research the baseball events in the movie. What I couldn't find was a reference to the scene when Lloyd's character buys a newspaper after yet another job blows up on him. This is at about the 11-minute mark. On our large flatscreen, it's possible to read parts of some headlines from page 1 of the New York Times: "Subway Blast", "Baltimore Mayor".
Narrowing it down, filming took place in summer 1927, and a few other occurrences are placed in the July-August timeframe.
So I called up the Times Machine and started looking at Page 1 on July 1. My hunch was right, and I found the headline on the issue of August 7, 1927.
There, a contribution to cinema history. <Bows deeply>
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