Saturday, October 16, 1909

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The Headlines

DOUBLE SEARCH OF MT. M'KINLEY; Cook Invites Fiala and Parker to Seek Records He Left on Mountain Top. PARKER GOING UP ANYWAY But Will Not Take Part in Any Expedition of Cook's Planning. WILL BRING RECORDS BACK If He Finds Them, the Professor Says, but Has Little Hope -- Cook Answers Questions.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet

Percy Wenrich

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

• William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Oscar Wilde (1854)
• David Ben-Gurion (1886)
• Eugene O'Neill (1888)
• Enver Hoxha (1908)
• Itō Hirobumi (1841)

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Tech Check

Toaster, Silencer for Guns & Instant Coffee.

Cost of Living (1900)