Friday, February 9, 1900

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The Headlines

GEN. BULLER STILL HOLDS HIS POSITION; Believed that He Will Be Able to Pierce Boer Centre. HIS HARDEST TASK AHEAD Must Hold One Boer Wing While He Crushes the Other. WHITE COULD AID HIM Such Movement Would Be Very Costly in Men and Heavy Guns, but Ladysmith Could Then Be Abandoned.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

On This Day

• The Davis Cup competition is established.

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You Share a Birthday With

• William Henry Harrison (1773)
• Thomas Paine (1737)
• Abdulaziz (1830)
• Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441)
• Pope Honorius II (1060)

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)