Saturday, December 23, 1905

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The Headlines

MERRITT'S FRIENDS THREATEN HIGGINS; This Fight, They Say, Will Not End with Speakership Election. WADSWORTH NOW CONFIDENT Hopeless Tone Pervades the Speeches at Merritt Caucus -- But Odell Talks Bravely On. MERRITT'S FRIENDS THREATEN HIGGINS

Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

On This Day

• The Tampere conference, where Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin meet for the first time, is held in Tampere, Finland.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Alexander I of Russia (1777)
• Joseph Smith (1805)
• Jean-François Champollion (1790)
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804)
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896)

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Tech Check

Jukebox, Silencers & Novocain.

Cost of Living (1900)