Thursday, May 24, 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: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Queen Victoria (1819)
• Jean-Paul Marat (1743)
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686)
• William Gilbert (physicist) (1544)
• Suzanne Lenglen (1899)

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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)