Monday, November 2, 1903

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The Headlines

CONEY ISLAND SWEPT BY FIRE; Fourteen Blocks Including 264 Buildings Burned. Thirty Persons Hurt, 500 Homeless, and One Probably Dead. Two Arrests Made on a Charge of Incendiarism -- Flames, Watched by 70,000 Spectators, Caused $1,200,000 Damage -- Scarcity of Water Delayed Firemen. CONEY ISLAND SWEPT BY FIRE

Best-selling Sheet Music

Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider

Eddie Leonard

The must-have

Crayola Crayons

You Share a Birthday With

• James K. Polk (1795)
• Warren G. Harding (1865)
• Marie Antoinette (1755)
• George Boole (1815)
• Mehmed V (1844)

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Tech Check

Wright Flyer (Airplane), Windshield Wipers & Crayons.

Cost of Living (1900)