Thursday, January 30, 1908

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The Headlines

JOIN THE BUTTERMILK CLUB.; Fairbanks Is a Charter Member, Churning Up the Interest.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

• Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
• Adelbert von Chamisso (1781)
• Max Theiler (1899)
• Félix Faure (1841)
• A. H. Tammsaare (1878)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1900)