New York Times Daily and Sunday Rates 1908
Publication details for the New York Times dated Monday December 7 1908 list subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions including per week per month per year options. Rates apply to Canada foreign countries and cities like New York Jersey City Newark and include postal terms and special sections such as Saturday Review.
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NEW York Times
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NEW York Times Saturday Review
British Liberals Face Weakness and Possible Spring Election
The British Liberal government, in a weekend speech, signals Parliament’s end near as Tennant notes losses among the working class over liquor licensing and anti church policy. Conservatives split, Unionists shift toward tariff reform, and by elections run against the government as debate on education and old age pensions continues.
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England
Chamberlain
Barour
Lords
House of Lords
Baxtrover
Union
Battle of the Microbes pamphlet urges cleaner waters
The Indefatigable Merchants' Association releases The Battle of the Microbes to promote sewage purification. It argues New Jersey should fund disposal plants rather than sewers dumping waste into harbor waters, urging a union for cleanliness and a practical remedy. The Harbor Board hearing aims to persuade New Jersey to adopt proper disposal measures.
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Merchants’ Association Committee
New Jersey
New York
Merchants’ Association
Harbor Board
Facing Not the Argument but the Fact
A concise note stresses confronting reality over dispute. The concise text emphasizes decisive handling of underlying truth rather than heated debate.
Roose Velts Wander Year Plans Stir Public Interest
The plan for Roose Velts year of travel draws attention across nations. The trip begins with hunting duties framed by sportsman ethics and aims for science and daily food as justification for game. He will lecture at Oxford and Europe before returning to a private life in America.
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Europe
Oxford
America
Gardner Chadbourne case goods seized at customs
Mrs. Joan L. Gardner of Boston bought European artworks including a fresco tapestry bust and torchholders and sent them to Mrs. Chadbourne in London then to Chicago as household goods. Customs seized the items appraised at 82000 dollars and later penalties pushed the government total to about 152000 dollars.
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Custom House
Joan L. Gardner
Boston
Europe
Chadbourne
London
Chicago
Government probes art smuggling and duty questions
The piece discusses a seizure of ancient art items and a government claim to duties. It argues the goods were not for sale, asks for free admission or minimal revenue duties, and criticizes cheap imitations flooding the market while genuine art remains underprotected. It references Mendel and Pannstr observations on heredity.
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Bumble
Beadle
Amending the Sherman Act and the Trust Dilemma
The piece argues that Secretary Straus favors punishing evildoing over mere existence of trusts and warns that a rigid law with iron teeth would be counterproductive. It criticizes Mr. Harriman’s prophecy of presidential amendment and notes the Tobacco Trust ruling as undermining the act. If the president mirrors Straus, prosecutions may rise but industrial activity could be stimulated.
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Harriman
Straus
Tobacco Trust
Mendelian Heredity and Plant Animal Inheritance
The article explains Mendelian inheritance with examples from plants and animals. It cites Punnett and Mendel, detailing dominance recessive ratios and practical results for breeding wheat and other crops, including disease immunity and trait transmission across generations.
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Manitoba
Looking Back at St Pierre Eruption and Its Aftermath
The piece reviews the 1902 Mont Pelée eruption impact on St Pierre Martinique. It notes limited rebuilding, a safer crater, and ongoing erosion. It quotes Edmund Otis Hovey on future town growth and local vegetation recovery amid new volcanic activity signals.
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Kaiser Bell Rings Church's 150th Year Celebration
The German Reformed Church of East Sixty-eighth Street marked its 150th anniversary with the consecration of a Kaiser bell presented by Emperor William II. The service merged English and German rites, featured a German address by Rev Dr John Oerter, and drew crowds amid flags and souvenirs, recalling the church’s colonial roots. The church began in Nassau Street in 1758 with pastor Abram Rosenkranz, who arrived to escape Indian threats.
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East Sixty-eighth Street
New York City
John Jacob Astor
William of
Germany
John S. Allen
New York
Franz Schilling
Hofglockenmeister
Apolda
Goss
The Law's Delay in County Supreme Court
A letter to the editor from M. A. Jr. of New York dated December 4, 1908 argues that county supreme court delays hinder plaintiffs, noting three year calendar waits, monthly court closures, and long summer vacations. The writer urges longer hours, shorter vacations, and faster trials to aid widows and families while seeking editorial response.
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The
New York Times
Supreme Court
Women Elected to Legislatures Across States in 1908
In letters to the editor Mrs D W McFadden wins a Idaho legislative seat and Mrs Alma V Lafferty wins in Colorado. The author notes past opposition claiming women would not be elected, calling that view a mistake and urging progress. Dorchester Mass December 4 1908 by Alice Stone Blackwell.
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New York Times
D. W. McFadden
Idaho
Alma V. Lafferty
Colorado
Alice Stone Blackwell
Dorchester
Mass
Silence Spreads Across Lands In Tongueless Ecstasy
Poem describes a global hush after storms, where sound fades to nothingness. Imagery moves from Portland to Santa Fé and Florida to Labrador, portraying a world in mute ecstasy and muffled movement as nature and speech fall silent.
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Portland
Maine
Santa Fé
Florida
Labrador
Westerly Sun Letter Responds to Times Overprint Error
A reader from Westerly Rhode Island addresses The New York Times letter page noting The Westerly Sun’s objection to a recent Times print about The Washington Times. The Westerly Sun claims only half of the conditions were stated and mentions Westerly's sizable Seventh-day Adventist population.
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New York Times
Washington Times
Westerly
Protests Split Over Catholic Presidency and Religion in Politics
Philadelphia ministers denounce the Presidents denunciation of religious bigotry, arguing that the people are priest and God. Rev. Daniel I. McDermott says Catholics, papal domination, and papal power would threaten American institutions, condemning fears as political stupidity.
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New York Times
Filadelphia
Daniel I. McDermott
Old St. Mary’s
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Caesar
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Rome
Vatican
Banishes Christmas Trees For Conservation
The Rev Dr Robert S MacArthur of Calvary Baptist urged his Current Events class to ease shopgirl strain this season by buying fewer evergreen trees. He criticized the Christmas custom, calling for reduced deforestation to prevent floods and preserve shade, and said his church would not purchase evergreens this year.
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Calvary Baptist Church
Dr. MacArthur
MacArthur
Dr Abbott on miracles at Yale Chapel sermon
The Rev Dr Lyman Abbott argued miracles do not suspend nature and praised character forged by hardship. He linked courage in football to peril on the field and contrasted science's rational order with religion's moral order while praising Taft Lincoln and Grant as models of self sacrifice.
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New York Times
New Haven
Lyman Abbott
New York City
Yale College
Abbott
Yale
William H. Taft
Christ
Supreme Court
Abraham Lincoln
Gen. Pre
Labor for Church Union Draws 2000 in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on December 6 meetings for workers students and young men gathered under the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The Lyric Theatre event drew over 2000 men from 24 unions with Dennis Hayes of the AF of L presiding. The Rev Charles Bretzle and Bishop E R Hendrix led the organizers. Nolan R Best of Chicago spoke against church involvement in politics.
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Penn
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Lyric Theatre
Dennis Hayes
American Federation of Labor
Charles Bretzle
Department of Church and Labor
The
Presbyterian Church
E. R. Hendrix
Federal Council
Stelzie
Nolan R. Best
Chicago
Businessmen Scored From Pulpit In New Haven
The Rev. Henry Stimson of New York City assailed American manufacturers and businessmen at Centre Cathedral Church in New Haven calling tariff changes a scramble for benefits. He likened them to hogs in a mire and said Americans live beyond their means, with little honesty in the land.
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New Haven
Centre Cational Church
Connecticut
Henry Stimson
New York City
United States
Bellinger Vigar Becomes Vicar of St Agnes Chapel
The Rev. Dr. William W. Bellinger takes the role of vicar at St. Agnes's Chapel on West Ninety-second Street New York, succeeding the Rev. William Manning. He is a conservative High Churchman from South Carolina born 1863, educated at Union College and General Theological Seminary, and has served in Utica and Brooklyn. His family will move to New York in January.
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Grace Church
Utica
St. Agnes’s Chapel
West Ninety-second Street
Columbus Avenue
William T. Manning
Trinity Parish
Morgan Dix
Bellinger
Greer
Diocese of
New York
Manning
George A. Hanna
William C. Rodgers
Frederic C. Lauderburn
Herbert G. Purchase
St. Agnaes’s
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Richland County
S. C
Duncan G. Bellinger
South Carolina
Edmund Bellinger
Landgraves
Union College
Schenectady
N. Y
General Theological Seminary
Protestant Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary’s
President Eliot attacked in new temperance book
The Oxford Bureau of Research author E C Towne accuses Harvard President Charles W. Eliot of hypocrisy and egoism in Temperance Without Prohibition. Towne cites Eliot's Ford Hall apology for licensing leadership while drinking moderately into his 70s and opposing prohibition. He portrays Harvard during Eliot's era as a volcano of vulgar passion and a Roman circus rather than Christian culture.
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New York Times
Worcester
Mass
E. C. Towne
Oxford Bureau of Research
Eliot
Harvard
Ford Hall
Brooklyn Police Shakeup Rumors After Mayor Commissioner Talks
Police circles expect a Brookyn shift with Mayor McClellan and Commissioner Bingham meeting to address Brooklyn affairs amid a Kings County Grand Jury presentment. Deputy Commissioner Baker may return to lead the Brooklyn force after vacation ends Tuesday.
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McClellan
Bingham
Grand Jury
Kings County
Baker
Whattan
Brooklyn Police Force
Ohio Half Dry as Anti-Saloon League Pushes Law
Cleveland December 6 Fifty five of Ohio s eighty eight counties are dry after six months work by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League since the Rose county option law took effect Five counties dry under the old law and voting continues in the remaining counties as the dry drive progresses
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Ohio
Ohio Anti-Saloon League
Rose County
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