Tuesday, December 4, 1906

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The Headlines

CONGRESS MEETS AGAIN; NEGRO TROOPS ISSUE UP; Penrose and Foraker Hasten to Question the President's Action. ACTION WITHOUT PRECEDENT In the House Noisy Greetings Are Exchanged and the Defeated Ones Get Sympathy. CONGRESS MEETS AGAIN; NEGRO TROOPS ISSUE UP

Best-selling Sheet Music

You're a Grand Old Flag

George M. Cohan

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Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

• Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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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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AM Radio Broadcasting, Victrola Phonograph & Sonar Concepts.

Cost of Living (1900)