Friday, August 6, 1909

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The Headlines

TAFT SIGNS BILL; IN EFFECT TO-DAY; Tariff Measure Is Finally Passed, Corrected and Signed -- Congress Ends Its Session. SEVEN REPUBLICAN REBELS Middle Westerners Vote Against Compromise Bill, but It Passes the Senate, 47 to 31. STATEMENT FROM TAFT Earnest Attempt at Downward Revision, He Declares, but Intimates He Will Later Demand More.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet

Percy Wenrich

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

You Share a Birthday With

• Alexander Fleming (1881)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809)
• Paul Claudel (1868)
• Johann Bernoulli (1667)
• François Fénelon (1651)

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Tech Check

Toaster, Silencer for Guns & Instant Coffee.

Cost of Living (1900)