Wednesday, April 2, 1902

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The Headlines

10,000 PENNSYLVANIA MINERS GO ON STRIKE; Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company's Pits Affected. Will Have Effect of Paralyzing Freight Traffic of Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad Company.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home

Hughie Cannon

The must-have

Teddy Bear

On This Day

• "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.

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• Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace, Saint Petersburg.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Hans Christian Andersen (1805)
• Émile Zola (1840)
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• Giacomo Casanova (1725)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1900)