Monday, September 17, 1900

From the day

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The Headlines

Two of the Yantic's Sailors Drowned.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

On This Day

• Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Bernhard Riemann (1826)
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
• Pope Paul V (1550)
• Marquis de Condorcet (1743)
• Billy the Kid (1859)

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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)