Sunday, December 4, 1904

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The Headlines

HERE'S A VAN DYCK HELD AT $125,000; Why the Portrait of the Countess Christiana Cavendish is Appraised at So High a Value -- Hidden for Ten Years in New York, It Is at Last on Public Exhibition. Once Belonged to a French Ambassador to England --Brought to America by an English Collector -- Something About the Personality of the Great Painter's Subject.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis

Kerry Mills

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

You Share a Birthday With

• Francisco Franco (1892)
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875)
• Thomas Carlyle (1795)
• Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835)
• Edith Cavell (1865)

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Tech Check

Offset Printing Press, Vacuum Diode Tube & Teabags.

Cost of Living (1900)