Wednesday, August 8, 1900

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The Headlines

PROSPECTING FOR GOLD LEAF.; A Clever Swindler Has Muleted Many Firms in Chicago.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

You Share a Birthday With

• Emiliano Zapata (1879)
• Saint Dominic (1170)
• Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881)
• Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) (1694)
• Sara Teasdale (1884)

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)