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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
6
The item lists daily and weekly NYT publication terms, pricing for weekdays and Sundays, and foreign rates. Also notes offices in New York Philadelphia London and timing for various editions. It mentions Canada and foreign rates and the Saturday Review variant.
The New York Times announces mail subscriptions for the Daily and Sunday editions nationwide at five cents per month for the Daily and fifty cents per month for the Sunday edition. Orders may be placed through newsdealers or directly at the publication office, telephone 1000 Bryant.
The piece argues legislators may reimburse Mayor McCLELLAN’s recount costs, framing the office title as personal yet noting taxpayers’ interest in upholding elected officials. It discusses ballot law faults, potential reimbursement for Hearst if he holds title, and broader election justice concerns amid ongoing crop and market reflections.
The article discusses crops showing a gradual, almost unseen advance likened to a sneaking movement on Wall Street. It notes cotton prospects improving with a quiet, steady rise, suggesting impending fuller realization of better conditions for harvests.
The reduction of letter postage between the United States and Great Britain to two cents an ounce is near. Advocates like Sir Rowland Hill, Elisha Burritt, and Heaton push penny rates, arguing cheaper postage spurs growth in trade and culture. Critics fear higher state costs, but past reductions increased letter volume. By next October two cent ocean postage could double transatlantic mail, boosting British correspondence and profits for cable firms as telegraph services follow postal trends.
Amid ceremonies for Emile Zola reburial at the Panthéon a lone anti-Dreyfusard extremist acted up as the crowd hissed. Major Dreyfus’s assailant was harshly restrained by onlookers and some factions urged harsher action while others sought calm. The episode did not signal a renewed France-wide clash over the decades long dispute.
A ministers conference advocates camp meetings to promote Socialism during the summer resort season. It plans a Manifesto after 200 clerical signatures, arguing the Golden Rule justifies action, while critics warn of bloodshed and revolution.
The piece analyzes the Muir defalcation at the Com Exchange Bank and the lukewarm official explanations, noting a modest salary and pressures of living that may have pushed him toward theft. It also argues for and against feeding hungry children, warning against long term charity abuse while urging relief to prevent starvation among pupils.
A New York reader asks how a capable high school graduate can finance college admission. He plans for Cornell on a scholarship to study law but faces the lack of family funds. He seeks methods to overcome expense barriers and help others in similar situations. June 3, 1908.
A reader from Lawrence argues that walking remains common and that the automobile causes dust and discomfort for pedestrians. The letter notes that many still walk and seek comfort, and that drivers fail to consider walkers’ inconveniences, leading to lasting prejudice against cars. June 3, 1908.
I argue Mr. Hammond could undermine Taft by his Transvaal record and ties to mining. The writer labels Hammond a wrecker of republics and conspirator, noting his role with Rand plutocracy and aiding raids, in a Bronx letter dated June 8, 1908.
A 1908 letter from Kitty Montrose in New York argues for an institution to house aging mothers for a small stipend. It portrays mothers as burdens after providing care, imagining efficiency and modern detachment, and invokes Carnegie or Ride-a-Wee’ers as potential funders.
A New York correspondent defends Secretary Taft against critics who view his Grant tomb Memorial Day words as detrimental to his presidential fitness. The writer argues the remarks were complimentary and criticizes the opposing assessment as erratic and misinformed.
A historical tablet riffs on justice and courage with lines praising Dreyfus and Maires, invoking Picquart Zola and the brave few who face oppression. The poem ends with a call for justice as God’s day and a new edition of Poems by Robert Underwood Johnson is cited.
In Atlantic City at the National Wholesale Grocers Association banquet, Treasurer Charles H. Treat urged calm in business, noting high bank reserves and Roosevelt era measures. He predicted a brighter business future beyond the panic, cautioned against prolonged gloom, and called for inflation of confidence rather than currency. He also touched on tariff adjustments and criticized the National bank system.
At a brief eight minute Chamber of Commerce session A Barton Hepburn of Chase National Bank pushed a resolution to authorize the chamber president to appoint delegates to a National Prosperity Convention if held. A separate memorial urged Secretary Root to press Britain to keep trawlers away from Atlantic cable lines off the Treland coast.
A prosperity convention of the Commercial Travelers Inter-State Congress will meet on August 14 and 15 under the Travelers Protective Association and the United Commercial Travelers. The two bodies claim a combined membership of 86,000 and aim to foster confidence and optimism in every city and district. Controller Metz serves as president of the organization.
Cardinal Logue primate of All Ireland visits West Point amid cadet parade and remarks on military bearing. He tours new buildings with Col Scott and Capt J Charles, after luncheon at Highland Falls hosted by M Keefer. Attended by Gen MoYou retired and senators Dick and Bulkeley plus Rep Capron. sails to Ireland Saturday on Cunard Panama.
John D Rockefeller prepares an Italianate orangery on his Pocantico Hills estate. The building by architect William Welles Bosworth will measure 209 by 50 feet and rise 25 feet with ornamental stone walls. Construction bids will open soon and work is to start by August 1.
Commissioner Bingham reshuffles the police by transferring 98 patrolmen 6 lieutenants and 6 sergeants as he restarts patrols in ports city offices and special details. He replaces some long serving personnel and argues court and city department salaries unjustly burden the Police Department. He also moved five sergeants from West Thirtieth Street Station off the lieutenant eligible list for duty concerns.
Plans filed with Building Superintendent Murphy by Allen and Collens, architects, for a Gothic library spanning Broadway frontage 453.8 feet from 120th to 122nd Street, 46 feet deep. Five stories with two additional embattled towers at ends, a central clock on the north tower front, and a total cost of 71 000 dollars as part of a quadrangle complex from Broadway to Claremont Avenue.
Water Commissioner John H. O'Brien told Aldermen that the Bridge Department plant for lighting the Brooklyn Bridge has been shut down because city operation failed to pay. The Williamsburg Bridge plant was previously shut for the same reason.
The Rev William Thomas Manning Doctor in Divinity was formally installed as priest and rector of Trinity Church New York in a ceremony led by Bishop Greer. The service featured a procession, confirmation of the Letter of Institution, delivery of keys, and a sermon from the Bishop praising Manning as successor to Dr Morgan Dix with a benediction and personal greetings from the congregation.
National Society of Patriotic Women of America visits Ellis Island to study immigrant conditions. The organization plans paid teachers and classes for immigrant children to promote practical patriotism and civic duties. formed May 6, with Mrs J Heron Crosman as president and officers led by Honorary President Mrs Charles W Fairbanks.
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