Tuesday, August 14, 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

• Battle of Peking: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

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You Share a Birthday With

• John Galsworthy (1867)
• Hans Christian Ørsted (1777)
• Pope Pius VII (1742)
• Frederick William I of Prussia (1688)
• Guangxu Emperor (1871)

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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)