Saturday, June 28, 1902

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The Headlines

STEEL TRUST TO RAISE WAGES OF 100,000 MEN.; Employes Will Get an Advance of Ten Per Cent., Increasing the Annual Payroll by $4,000,000.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home

Hughie Cannon

The must-have

Teddy Bear

On This Day

• The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577)
• Luigi Pirandello (1867)
• Henry VIII (1491)
• Alexis Carrel (1873)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1900)