Thursday, February 27, 1902

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The Headlines

GOVERNMENT'S CASE AGAINST THE MERGER; Bill Against Northern Securities Company to be Filed Next Week. Department of Justice Holds that Any State Through Which Roads Run Can Bring Merger Into Court.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home

Hughie Cannon

The must-have

Teddy Bear

On This Day

• Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Constantine the Great (272)
• John Steinbeck (1902)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807)
• Marian Anderson (1897)
• Sveinn Björnsson (1881)

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Tech Check

Air Conditioner, Hearing Aids & Lie Detector (Polygraph).

Cost of Living (1900)