Thursday, March 4, 1909

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The Headlines

JAPANESE QUESTION UP AGAIN.; Renewed Attempt to Exclude Them from Schools Is Defeated.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet

Percy Wenrich

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

• U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Antonio Vivaldi (1678)
• Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769)
• Prince Henry the Navigator (1394)
• George Gamow (1904)
• Georges Dumézil (1898)

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Tech Check

Toaster, Silencer for Guns & Instant Coffee.

Cost of Living (1900)