Thursday, April 19, 1906

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The Headlines

OVER 500 DEAD, $200,000,000 LOST IN SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE; Nearly Half the City Is in Ruins and 50,000 Are Homeless. WATER SUPPLY FAILS AND DYNAMITE IS USED IN VAIN Great Buildings Consumed Before Helpless Firemen -- Federal Troops and Militia Guard the City, With Orders to Shoot Down Thieves -- Citizens Roused in Early Morning by Great Convulsion and Hundreds Caught by Falling Walls.

Best-selling Sheet Music

You're a Grand Old Flag

George M. Cohan

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

You Share a Birthday With

• José Echegaray (1832)
• Getúlio Vargas (1882)
• Ferdinand I of Austria (1793)
• Jiroemon Kimura (1897)
• Vasily Tatishchev (1686)

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Tech Check

AM Radio Broadcasting, Victrola Phonograph & Sonar Concepts.

Cost of Living (1900)