Monday, October 15, 1900

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The Headlines

MR. GAGE ON THE BANK ACT; Secretary of the Treasury Reviews the National System. Peril Involved in Its Destruction -- Financial Misconceptions Dispelled -- New Currency Law.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

You Share a Birthday With

• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
• Akbar (1542)
• Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
• Evangelista Torricelli (1608)
• P. G. Wodehouse (1881)

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)