Tuesday, May 26, 1908

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The Headlines

CHARITIES BOAT HIT BY LINER MARAVAL; The Thomas S. Brennan, with 150 Launching Guests Aboard, Rammed During Fog in Bay. MUCH ALARM; ONLY 1 HURT Damage All Above the Waterline -- Commissioner Hebberd and His Wife Were on Board.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

• The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

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You Share a Birthday With

• John Wayne (1907)
• Pope Clement VII (1478)
• Mehmed III (1566)
• Abraham de Moivre (1667)
• John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650)

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Tech Check

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

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