Monday, April 30, 1900

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The Headlines

NEW YORK CENTRAL STRIKE; Road Has Until 1 o'Clock To-day to Grant Employes' Demands. 30,000 MEN MAY TAKE PART Strikers Claim They Can Get Out That Number in Twenty-four Hours -- Entire Buffalo Police Force on Duty.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

On This Day

• Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893)
• Mary II (1662)
• Casimir III the Great (1310)

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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)