Deal Beach Circus Plans Charity Benefit Spectacle
Deal Beach New Jersey outlines a charity circus to be held Aug 29 at the Deal station site. Joseph M. Byrne leads the event with 200 boxes and a 4000 spectator tent, plus side shows and amateur races. Numerous society figures and theaters-backed committees organize finance, talent, and press roles for two performances.
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New York Times
Deal Beach
N. J
Jersey
Deal Station
Joseph M. Byrne
Deal Golf and Country Club
Frederick Gerken
Murry Guggenheim
Daniel Guggenheim
Henry Seligman
Louis James
Miles M. O'Brien
Elbridge Gerry Snow, Jr
William Shanley
John F. Shanley
Charles Richman
J S. Kimball
Harry Content
Harold Content
William Hagencamp
Hugh Mullen
Philip Lehman
William Levy
Jacob Rotschild
J. PB. McDonough
Joseph Meyer
Michael Blake
J. J. O'Donohue, Jr
John O'Sullivan
F. Narganes
Thomas F. Donnelly
Miles O'Brien
Jefferson Seligman
William C. Shanley
George H. Prentice
William C.heppenheimer
Robert McDonnell
Peter Hauck, Jr
Gustav Lembeck
Louis Straus
BR. M. Shanley, Jr
Milan Ross
J. Casey
Thomas Smith
J. B. McDonough
Charles Daly Beinheimer
Schuyler Casey
William A. Brady
Charles Ross
Jay O’brien
William W. Vaughan
Arthur Lyons
Norton Walters
Lester Deeves
Charles Lyons
Frank Dwyer
Joseph J. O’donohue
Miles M. O’brien
Thomas O’brien
Norman Carroll
Chauncey Dillon
John Dillon
Stanley Mullen
Gerard Crosswaite
John Hay
Joseph Smith
James Knott
Eliot Creighton
James
Joseph McCormick
Curlew
Allenhurst
Albert Spalding
Lenox Social Scene Gains and Guests from Pittsfield to Paris
A Berkshire roundup notes a Kirmess for a day nursery netted 1500 at Pittsfield. Notables and families arrive or stay at Maplewood Hotel, Onota Farm, and Lenox hotels, including the Elkins, Higginson, and Kean parties. Various callers plan dinners, luncheons, and travels to New York, Bar Harbor, and Paris, with birthdays and health updates among residents.
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New York Times
Lenox
Mass
Pittsfield
Maplewood Hotel
Arthur W. Plumb
Edward Wharton
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Elkins
West Virginia
Matherine Elkins
Washington
Aspinwall
Samuel C. Reed
New York
Maplewood
George Higginson
John A. Spoor
Onota Farm
C. R. Beach
Dorothea Gilder
Gloucester
Four Brook Farm
Charles S. Mellen
Agnes Allaire
Council Hill
Edmund Randolph
M. Gray Zalinski
G. N. Hammond
Louise Hammond
Kate Morgan
Bar Harbor
Paul Dahlgren
Romola Dahlgren
Newport
Robert Winthrop
Ethelwyn
Hamilton Fish Kean
Elberon
N. J
Meredith Howland
Daniel S. Torrence
Curtis Hotel
Amy White
Boston
Francis C. Barlow
Yachts from New York Yacht Club visit Narragansett Pier
The New York Yacht Club cruisers docked at Narragansett Pier for a bathing and luncheon at the Casino. Mr and Mrs Henry Redwood led a Newport party aboard and hosted on the Casino plaza. Crescent carried guests including George J. Smith William B De Haven Ernestus Gulick and Carlton T Chapman.
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Newport
Vencedor
David Dow
Aquila
C. B. Stuart
H. Wallace
E. Coe Kerr
H. S. Manning, Jr
Col
Samuel M. Nicholson
Providence
Casino
Gladstone
Baltimore
Henri Roschan
Austria
Dana Osgood
Hopedale
Mass
Henry Spies Kip
Edward de. Peyster Livingston
New York
Carlton T. Chapman
David Dows
Austen G.fox
R. Wd. Thomas
W. T. Whitehead
Ralph
Kenneth _ M. Murchison
Sherlock Swann
the Massasoit
New York Times
Narragansett Pier
New York Yacht Club
Henry
Redwood
Casino Plaza
Crescent
George J. Smith
William B. de Haven
Ernestus Gulick
Charles D. Dickey
Ambassador OBrien Attends Newport Naval Parade
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas J. OBrien, guest of Rear Admiral Merrell, observes the Newport naval training station parade with New York Yacht Club figures like Commodore Vanderbilt and Arthur Curtis James in attendance. Social events and preparations at Harbour View and Chester describe a bustling summer scene among elites. Ambassador OBrien departs Wednesday for Europe en route to Tokio via Siberia.
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New York Times
Newport
Thomas J. O’brien
United States
Japan
John P. Merrell
Naval Training Station
Naval Brigade
Army
Navy
Commodore Vanderbilt
Arthur Curtis James
Frederick F. Brewster
G. A. Cormack
Tarrant Putniam
N. de Berkeley Parsons
Walter €. Kerr
Ernest E. Lorillard
Lloyd Phenix
W. Butler Duncan, Jr
Col
Oliver Payne
Frederick G. Bourne
New York Yacht Club
Fullam
Yacht Club
Elsie French Vanderbilt
Harbour View
Europe
Chester
Cottage Colony
Ogden Mills
William Payne Thompson
Charles L. F. Robinson
Willliam_C. Roelker
Berger's
E. C. Knight, Jr
James
Seaon
Henry Spies Kip
New York
Sidney Love
H. Ss. Thompson
Percy A. Rockefeller
James J. Coogan
William G. Roelker, Jr
William S. Potter
Cyril Hatch
Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Association
Stephen B. Luce
French E. Cladwick
Ogden Jones
Walter Howe
Theodore K Gibbs
de Lancey Astor Kane
William F. Fullam
C. A. Siegfried
Howland
Lee de Forest
Ernest Conant
A.B. Widener
Josephine
James B. Haggin
Arleigh
A. G. Vanderbilt
Bay Shore
Germans Argue Over Ancient Anchor In Coney Island Inlet
Deputy Surveyor of the Port Matthew Coneys and crew aboard the Timmins found a German fishing party at Coney Island Inlet quarrelling over a barnacle encrusted old four flaked anchor. They split into factions claiming it was a Columbus or Hudson relic. The Timmins withdrew after trying to calm them for safety.
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Port Matthew Coneys
Timmins
Coney Island Inlet
Christopher Cloumbus
Hendrik Hudson
Saftey
Smallpox Detains Haverford at Reedy Island Quarantine
Smallpox outbreaks among steerage passengers aboard the American Line steamer Haverford from Liverpool and Queenstown prompted detention at Reedy Island quarantine. The ship’s doctor diagnosed two cases, isolation implemented, and officials confirmed the diagnosis during inspection. The Haverford carried 140 steerage and 150 cabin passengers.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
American Line
Haverford
Liverpool
Queenstown
Reedy Island
Shubert Prizes for Young Actors Open to All
Lee Shubert unveils two scholarships for a man and a woman in his companies to study at the Théâtre Français Paris and spend weeks in London Berlin and Vienna before signing a five year contract. Winners must be young legitimate actors not stars and will be known as the Julia Marlowe and E H Sothern Prizes.
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Lee Shubert
Shubert
Théatre Francais
Paris
London
Berlin
Vienna
Shuberts
Shubert Dramatic Companies
Lee
J. J
New Theatre
Clara Lipman Quits Stage After Abroad Return
Clara Lipman announced she will not act again but devote herself to writing plays and librettos after returning with Louis Mann from abroad aboard the Bluechar. Mann will perform in The New Generation with Jules Eckert Goodman while Lipman pursues adaptation of The Girl of the Ferry into a musical comedy libretto.
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Louis Mann
Clara Lipman
Bluechar
Berlin
Vienna
Paris
Tyrol
Sonnenthal
United States
Helene Odillon
Ferdinand Bonn
Mann
No Sail Aloft for Actress at Palisades Park
The actress refused to balloon yesterday after a note from her manager restricting appearances outside the theatre. Jones the invincible aeronaut and captain of the Boomerang carried on with a brief ascent but an onlooker’s objection led to cancellation. The airship tangled in trees, then rose briefly before failing and striking wires. Jones declared no more sailing in the area.
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Palisades Park
Jones
Bessie McCoy
Mr. Jones
Arnold Daly arrives with new play in New York season
Arnold Daly arrived from Europe aboard La Bretagne with the manuscript of a new play from C M S McLellan titled The Jury of Fate to be produced in New York this season under Liebler and Co Daly will also appear in The Regeneration in the coming weeks He commented on London Paris play conditions and on George Bernard Shaw noting a brief discussion during a three week stay and a trip to Carlsbad
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Arnold Daly
Liebler &Co
Europe
la Bretagne
C. M. S. McLellan
Leah Kleschna
New York
Mr. Daly
London
Paris
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Carlsbad
THINGS ASTIR ON THE RIALTO
Busy Rialto reports show actors and actresses with engagements rehearsing from dawn to dark while many hopefuls flood agents offices seeking road company work. Theatres host multiple companies on alternating schedules and managers train choruses in halls and lofts. Vaudeville acts rehearse on apartment rooftops and seashore woods as climaxes are perfected.
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Rialto
Theatre merger seeks federal inquiry and trust formation
The Central Federated Union moved with President De Veaux of the Actors' Protective Union to ask Attorney General Bonaparte to probe a nationwide theatre merger. De Veaux says a meeting in this city last week agreed to form a trust to control theatrical business, freezing out independent companies and impacting actors, builders, bill posters, lithographers, and others.
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Central Federated Union
de Veaux
Actors’ Protective Union
United States
Bonaparte
Adele Rafter Plans March Seventeen Wedding in Pittsburg
Actress Adele Rafter announced her marriage to Richard Gulick owner and manager of the Bijou Theatre in Pittsburg for March 17. The announcement came at a dinner by Mrs. Helen Birch of The Pittsburg Bulletin. Rafter has been starring in The Lady from Lane's and travels to New York to sign a next season contract. Gulick hopes she quitter the stage, a choice she has not made.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Adele Rafter
Richard Gulick
Bijou Theatre
Miss Rafter
Helen Birch
Pittsburg Bulletin
Lane's
New York
Gulick
Detectives Nab Opium Ring Sr Second Ave Chinese Joint
Fifth Street Station detectives Ornstein Martin Steier and Greenbaum raided Sing Chung's Chinese restaurant on Third Avenue near Twelfth Street at midnight. They seized twenty nine one pound cans of opium, 173 opium shells, and 126 cocaine sticks, charging Chung with selling opium. Witness Joseph Angelo aided the operation. Chung remained silent in Yorkville Court and was held on $1000 bail.
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Ornstein, Martin, Steier
Greenbaum
Fifth Street
Sing Chung
Third Avenue
Twelfth Street
Chung
Shaw
Joseph Angelo
East Eleventh Street
Yorkville Court
Laymen Build Temporary Church Tabernacle in St Louis
In Semple and Cote Brilliante Avenues residents watched Hope Congregational Church members including bankers lawyers and physicians convert a frame building into a temporary tabernacle. By dusk it stood half completed as Rev. James R. Smith said the plan arose after selling the old church and needing new quarters by September 1.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Semple and
Cote Brilliante
Hope Congregational Church
James R. Smith
Fighting at Tabriz Continues Amid Cavalry Engagement
A Tabriz dispatch reports severe fighting continuing Saturday with Shah cavalry joining the battle and revolutionists suffering heavy casualties in men and some guns.
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Tabriz
ST. Petersburg
Notable deaths of Tipton Rawson Scott in early 1900s era
William Tipton horse owner and trainer dies in Kenosha at 61 after years as a Chicago and New York show exhibitor. Warren W. Rawson prominent Massachusetts vegetable grower and GOP figure dies at 61 in Arlington from appendicitis, first to use steam and electricity in glasshouse production. George Stuart Scott, a major New York grain exporter and Produce Exchange member, dies at 71 in his Manhattan home. survived by three daughters and two sons.
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William Tipton
Kenosha
Wis
Chicago
New York
Warren W. Rawson
Massachusetts
Arlington
Rawson
Governor’s Council
George Stuart Scott
St. Nicholas Avenue
Montreal
Scott
Produce Exchange
Alfred Ross Grafton
Rebe
Flora Stuart Scott
Samuel Mathewson Scott
Stuart Scott
The
Stock Exchange
Monkey learns English words at Central Park Zoo in pioneering test
Central Park Zoo keepers Patrick Canan Robert Hartin and others pursue a novel experiment to teach Baldy the meaning of peach reach and screech aiming for Baldy to respond to English words. The effort mirrors Harvard zoologist work and stirs public interest at the zoo.
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Melvin Slaggerty
Bronx Park Zoo
Central Park Zoo
Harvard
Fatrick Canan
Central Park Monkey House
Robert Hartin
William Snyder
Central Park
Baldy
Traggerty
Bronx Park
Canan
Mr. Haggerty
Haggerty
Hurtin
Prof
Garner
Africa
Garnner
Hartin
Conan
Callan
Policeman Injured During Effort to Break Up Crap Game
Policeman John C. Newman of Brooklyn’s Classon Avenue Station disguised himself by discarding his coat and helmet to raid a crap game at Myrtle and Grand Avenues. A brick strike to the head caused a deep scalp wound. he was treated and sent home. He captured 17 year old Peter Mundy amid a jeering crowd.
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John C. Newman
Classon Avenue
Brooklyn
Myrtlé
Grand Avenues
Newman
Peter Mundy
Myrtle Avenue
Living Like Adam and Eve Ends in Custody for Lyonses
Robert Lyons age 22 and his wife Anna 19 were found bathing in Cresheim Creek Chestnut Hill. A nearby black woman alerted police and the couple fled to a cave under a large oak. They wore clothes discarded two weeks earlier and were charged with vagrancy after being taken to Germantown Police Station.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Robert Lyons
Anna
Lyonses
Cresheim Creek
Chestnut Hill
Germantown
Goldsboro Reach Mobile in Port with Trafficked Cargo
The steamer Goldsboro arrived in Mobile at 8 20 tonight carrying nearly a quarter million dollars in cargo and Bailey passengers to Puerto Cortez. Officers were barred from shore as the ship anchored midstream and was said to be under a U S gunboat petty officer.
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New York Times
Mobile
Ala
Goldsboro
Baileys
Puerto Cortez
Honduras
United States
Marietta
Local Birth Announcements
On August 6 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. S A Fibel. A daughter arrived August 6 to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E Goldstein. A daughter was born August 2 to Mr. and Mrs George Goldstein. A daughter arrived August 7 to Mr. and Mrs Abner Levy. A daughter was born August 6 to Mr. and Mrs Felix Tausend.
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Fibel
S. A. Fibel
Goldstein
Samuel E. Goldstein
George Goldstein
Levy
Abner Levy
Tausend
Felix Tausend
Married Couples Tie the Knot in Local Notices
Beulah Lieberman wed Morris Arnheim on August 8. Sadie Winthal married Cleon J. Sawyer on August 1 at Hasbrouck Heights New Jersey.
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Arnheim—Lieberman
Beulah Lieberman
Morris Arnheim
Sawyer—Winthal
Hasbrouck Heights
N. J
Sadie Winthal
Cleon J. Sawyer
Beekman and others noted in Brooklyn obituaries
A list of funeral notices and obituaries for August 1908 includes James William Beekman of Oyster Bay Long Island and other residents of New York, Brooklyn, and nearby areas. The notices detail church services, burial plans, and residence addresses for multiple individuals, with dates in August and on specific weekdays.
Obituary notices list deaths across New Jersey and New York
A long list shows many deaths with dates and addresses from Jersey City Passaic Newark Brooklyn Hoboken and surrounding towns. Names include Catherine Douglass James Driscol Philip Erickson John Farrell Annie Pinkerty Annie Fitzpatrick Hugh Gilmartin Adam Goetz Catherine Gould Harry Hargrove Alexander Hewitt and more with funeral notices ranging from to day to tomorrow and services at local churches and homes.
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S. T
Annie E. Pinkerty
Fitzpatrick
All West 170Th St
Annie E. Fitzpatrick
Gilmartin
251 West 18Th St
Hugh J. Gilmartin
Hugh J. Gilmartin. Funeral To-Morrow, 10 A. M. Gilmor.—At Meadow Brook, N. Y
John de Gilmor
Gortz
Adam Goetz
Smorrow
We Gould
Catherine Gould
Tater
Hargrove
Bank St
Newark
N. J
Harry Hargrove
Hewitt
York St
Jersey City
Alexander F. Hewitt
Hirschmann
East 1Ifth SS
Josep Oe Hirschmann
Ay Hunken
East 196Th St
John Hunsken
Jacobson
John Jacobson
Ay. Johnson
Bergen
Brooklyn
Annie Johnson
Kaupfman
Mamaroneck
N. Y
Mary Kauffman
TS. Funerl
M. Kelty
Jefferson Av
Jersey
Friedrich Kirchherr
I P. Luhs
Washington St
Hoboken
Dorothea F. Luhs
Leighton
Sameuel Leighton
McInerney
Webster Av
Atg
David McInerney
McKay
Grand $St
Bridget McKay
McMahon
John McMahon
Ridge St
Marter
South 10Th St
Daniel O'Connor
Orrok
Railroad Av
Lottie Orrok
Parsil
South Mth St
Nice
Edith M. Pansil
Puhm
German Hospital
Ty Anthon Pu
George J. Sontag
Stewart
Bergentine
West New York
Jene Stewart
Sullivan
10Th St
Dennis F. Sullivan
Tirnan
Avenue A
Baretholomew
Traphagen
Baldwin St
Newarky
Race for Life Ends On Bridge As Boys Are Fatally Struck
In Indianapolis a group of onlookers watched three youths race along a railroad bridge over the White River. Tub er, Staley, age 7, and John Weston, 1, were killed after being knocked from the structure by a fast train as Herbert Jenkins, 18, escaped by leaping to the grade and climbing away.
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Indianapolis
Ind
White River
Ated
Staley
John Weston
Herbert Jenkins
Jenkins
Sunday chicken killing deemed religious rite by court
Jacob Braunstein of 78 Jefferson Street was arraigned in Essex Market Court for killing a chicken on Sunday. Magistrate Wahle ruled it was not a violation of the Sunday law, calling it a religious rite, and discharged Braunstein.
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Jacob Braunstein
Jefferson Street
Essex Market Court
Wahle
Brainatminn
Unveiling and Mass Notices in Memorial Section
Unveiling of the Tout Burnett monument at Bayside Cemetery scheduled August 15 at 11 AM. Oscar Kolner monument unveiling August 16 at 3 PM at Bayside Cemetery, Herman Benevolent Association Ground. Mass for James Langen at St Church Newark today. Mass for Philip McDonald at Holy Trinity Chapel tomorrow morning.
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Philip McDonald
Holy Trinity Chapel
A. Bt
Woodlawn Cemetery Access by Harlem Trains and Trolleys
Woodlawn Cemetery is readily accessible by Harlem trains from Grand Central, Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys, and by carriage. Lots from 150 dollars. For books of views call Telephore at 4855 Gramercy or contact the office at 20 East 280th Street, New York City.
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Woodlawn
Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster and
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
East 280 ST
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Deal
J. M. Byrne
Te Ringmaster
Berkshires
U. S
Court of Japan
Standard of Dramatic Art
Screech
Brick
Adam and Eve
Bert
Crawford
Mount Kisco
N._Y
Thoms Crawford
East 128d St
Kensico Cemetery
Curtis
Hamilton
Point O’ Woods
L. I
Susan Conger -Hamilton
Richard Hamiton
M. Lawrence
Farmington
Stephen Russell Lawrence
New Britain
Conn
McCloskey
Riveriale
New York City
Harry J. McCloskey
St. Margaret’s Church
Riverdale
Maples Av
New Rochelle
XN. Y
Skidmore
Broadway
Worcestershire
England
Mary Jane
Jeremiah &Kidmore
Greenwood Cemetery
Wills
Plainfield
Emma Louisa Wills
Frederick Ht. Wills
Holy Cross Church
Washington Av
North Plainfield
Anderson
Bedford Av
Helen R. Anderson
Anglim
Monitor St
Mary Anglim
Blumberg
West 138Th &T
Anna Blumberg
Grand &T
Sarah Ovl
Branig
West 145Th St
Julius M. Branig
Buck
William Buck
M. Butler
Bay Ridge
James Butler
Cairns
Park Av
Sarah J. Cairns
M. Carty
99Th St
Fort Hamilton
Mary V. Carty. Carey
Stevens
Julia A. Carey
Clark
Charles F. Clark
Cross
T. Edward Cross
Doherty
Front St
Walter Doherty
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer Institute
Hardman
Fulton Ste Lroo
California Fig Syrup CO
Undertakers
Stephen Merritt
Frank B. Campbell
West
Chelsea
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