Tuesday, August 23, 1904

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The Headlines

LIMITED TRAIN HALTED TO OBLIGE MRS. PHIPPS; Takes Her Aboard for Chicago at Pittsburg Suburb. GOES TO MEET HER HUSBAND Friends Believe She Will Get $5,000,000 and Share Custody of the Children.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis

Kerry Mills

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

On This Day

• The automobile tire chain is patented.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Louis XVI (1754)
• Edgar de Wahl (1867)
• Georges Cuvier (1769)
• Eleftherios Venizelos (1864)
• Alexander Grin (1880)

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Tech Check

Offset Printing Press, Vacuum Diode Tube & Teabags.

Cost of Living (1900)