Saturday, August 8, 1908

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The Headlines

BALDWIN'S AIRSHIP IN PERFECT FLIGHT; "We Sighted the Enemy," Says Inventor as Dirigible Comes to Earth. UNDER ABSOLUTE CONTROL Flew Three Miles, Turned, Came Back, and Before Alighting Executed Manoeuvres with Ease.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

• Wilbur Wright makes the Wright Brothers' first public flight, at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Paul Dirac (1902)
• Emiliano Zapata (1879)
• Ernest Lawrence (1901)
• Saint Dominic (1170)
• Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1900)