Friday, July 20, 1934

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The Headlines

CITY'S BONDS SOLD IN LESS THAN HOUR; $58,000,000 Long-Term Issue Is Heavily Oversubscribed --Yield 1.25% to 3.85%.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

On This Day

• Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.

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• West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Petrarch (1304)
• Edmund Hillary (1919)
• Gregor Mendel (1822)
• Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864)
• Mahmud II (1789)

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Tech Check

Cat's Eye Road Studs, Telex & Hammond Organ.

Cost of Living (1930)