Tuesday, August 28, 1900

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The Headlines

FELL INTO A PADDLE WHEEL.(2); Workman Pounded Nearly to Death Before He Was Rescued.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

You Share a Birthday With

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
• George Whipple (1878)
• Andrei Platonov (1899)
• Charles Boyer (1899)
• Edward Burne-Jones (1833)

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)