Sunday, January 17, 1904

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The Headlines

ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN IN FLORIDA.; Four Men Blow Open Baggage Car on Sea Board Air Line by Mistake and Get Nothing.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis

Kerry Mills

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

On This Day

• Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Benjamin Franklin (1706)
• David Lloyd George (1863)
• Anne Brontë (1820)
• Al Capone (1899)
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600)

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Tech Check

Offset Printing Press, Vacuum Diode Tube & Teabags.

Cost of Living (1900)