Wednesday, November 21, 1900

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The Headlines

ELECTRIC CARS FOR LONDON.; County Council to Take Steps to Provide Them -- American Tenders for Underground Equipment.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

On This Day

• Claude Monet's paintings shown at Gallery Durand-Ruel in Paris.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Voltaire (1694)
• Pope Benedict XV (1854)
• René Magritte (1898)
• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768)
• Lewis H. Morgan (1818)

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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)