Friday, January 24, 1908

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The Headlines

TAFT CALLS OFF FOES OF HUGHES; Tells Parsons to Let the Governor Have the New York Delegates. A PLAN TO KEEP CONTROL Administration Forces Hope to Make Taft the Second Choice of the State. FACTION FIGHT TO GO ON Hughes's Friends Demand That Only His Most Loyal Supporters Be Named as Delegates.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth

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Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

• The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Frederick the Great (1712)
• Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732)
• E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776)
• Edith Wharton (1862)
• Christian Wolff (philosopher) (1679)

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Tech Check

Ford Model T (Assembly Line), Geiger Counter & Cellophane.

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