Wednesday, February 7, 1900

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The Headlines

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Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

On This Day

• Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.

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• A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Charles Dickens (1812)
• Thomas More (1478)
• Sinclair Lewis (1885)
• Alfred Adler (1870)
• G. H. Hardy (1877)

Slang

Tech Check

Kodak Brownie Camera, Zeppelin Airships & Escalators.

Style of 1900

Silhouette: S-bend corset and pouter pigeon chest

Material: Lace, silk, and heavy wool

• Gibson Girl hair
• Parasols
• High collars

Cost of Living (1900)