Tuesday, September 5, 1905

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The Headlines

KILLED IN FIRE SPECTACLE.; Girl Acrobat Jumps to Rescuer, Breaks Rope and Falls.

Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

On This Day

• Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Louis XIV (1638)
• Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
• Tommaso Campanella (1568)
• Arthur Koestler (1905)

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Tech Check

Jukebox, Silencers & Novocain.

Cost of Living (1900)