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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
6
Dated New York March 30 1908 the page shows masthead price list and postal data for a daily edition. It indicates the print details and rates for Greater New York Jersey City and Newark with general issues and Saturday variations.
The item lists office locations in New York Washington Philadelphia and Paris with subscription rates for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly editions, including foreign mail options. It mentions specific addresses such as Times Square Broadway Post Building and Fleet Street and notes rates for daily and Sunday editions and pictorial sections.
A court opinion argues that Robert Hunter and his followers share moral responsibility for the Union Square bombing, labeling Silverstein as deluded and urging rejection of anarchist, socialist, and communist ideologies. It accuses these movements of undermining social order and citizenship.
The article analyzes bills to regulate liquor into prohibition states likely failing in Congress. It notes states continue own controls with strong enforcement, cites Inglehart’s Review of Reviews on prohibition’s reach, and argues gradual local option and high license may better curb rum than constitutional prohibition.
Fragmentary line notes a proliferation of agitators challenging laws and institutions that the vast majority of citizens have established and support. The text hints at growing unrest and calls for firm response to preserve order.
The Kaiser issues a Berlin statement approving David Jayne Hill as United States Ambassador to Germany. The move relieves President Roosevelt of embarrassment and clears Ambassador Tower of suspicion, leaving the President free to act as he sees fit.
On the day the Aldrich Bill passed in the Senate the National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City resumed operations and Controller of the Currency Rice resigned to become its president. The rebound of the bank boosts regional credit and public welfare, despite the loss of a Washington official who advocated a gold standard for currency stability.
An opinion piece rails against bond secured currency tied to public bonds, arguing it invites panic and currency disruption. It mocks political figures and envisions a surreal future of tropical cities, urging Washington and Berlin to act on the Poles issue.
February foreign trade figures show exports down while imports of manufacturers materials fall sharply. The piece argues tariffs raise production costs, slow recovery, and hinder freedom of supply, citing eight months of declines and widespread idle workers. It questions Republican praise for tariffs and cites The Tribune urging a protective yet trade expanding reform.
Astounding claim from Mr. Moses Cosworth of York and observations by Mr. ConworTH in Alaska suggest Arctic pack ice is pushing the North Pole toward Siberia. The implied result would place Alaska and Greenland nearer the temperate zone, unsettling traditional latitudes and climates including New York.
By the resignation of Justice Leven Tritt the Supreme Court loses a judge esteemed for high qualifications and experience in private practice. He reenters law practice as head of a firm formed by his former partnership and the former Wallach firm, a move seen as a notable loss to the judiciary.
A discussion on a street car confrontation where a drunken man Lundy provoked others and Mr Heflin drew a revolver firing twice, wounding the man and injuring a bystander. The piece weighs the provocation, the conductor's role, and questions the justification and broader impact of armed policing in public transit. It then shifts to a review of Mind That Found Itself, praising its inside view of insanity and the call for reform in asylum care and public funding, with commentary on Commissioner Bingham's policing challenges in New York City.
D A C Pinehurst North Carolina writes March 26 1908 urging higher fare realism and transit funding. He asks press to pressure the Public Utilities Commission to convert the Harlem Division into a rapid transit line with new stations and possible loop or subway connection for quicker service between Manhattan and the Bronx.
The speaker argues for a reform that would shift selection of higher officers away from the ranks. He concedes that initial appointees may come slowly and many commissioners may exit before the change becomes a realistic goal.
A New York reader questions the Civic Federation proposed amendments to legalize strikes under the Sherman law. The letter argues strikes are conspiracies in restraint of trade at common law, warns legalization risks anarchy, and suggests strikes should be judged in court with bias toward workers, predicting more weak and costly actions would follow. March 25, 1908.
J S Mombert of Paterson New Jersey argues the lilies in biblical passages likely refer to various flowers beyond the white lily. He cites Hebrew Greek terms and East usage, suggesting iris scarlet anemone and lotus among possibilities.
F Marion Crawford argues art for art sake is noble but needs material benefit. At a Rome dinner he was asked if he writes for immortality, he replies his aim is to write to enable him to live while he is here.
Fresh conspiracies against President Nord Alexis arouse authorities in Port au Prince as Gen. Larraque sought refuge in the French Legation. Police scoured legations and doubled palace guards while 2000 public safety items and ammunition were moved to the Tehin. In a separate report the executions of twenty seven suspects last Sunday were carried out by soldiers in a manner that exposed harsh methods of rule.
The Rev Father Peter Chang the only Chinese priest to visit this country assisted at vespers in the Most Holy Trinity German Catholic Church Williamsburg. Bishop Hennighaus of Shantung led the service and spoke of aid needed for China noting growth from 115 to 83000 Chinese Catholics including 600 priests and 400 sisters. Chang will celebrate high mass at St Barbara's next Sunday and address children at the Church of the Most Holy Trinity this morning. A large collection was taken for China.
A vaudeville event and ball in Grand Central Palace last night raised about $10,000 for the Jewish Maternity Hospital. Funds will fund alterations at 270 and 272 East Broadway to create a modern maternity hospital costing $30,000 with a nursery to be added and operation targeted in six months. East Side Jewish performers and acts including Hobson and McNichol, Sigmund Weintraub, Mrs. Jules Levy Trio, and Rose Karp entertained, with Adolph Ivack as musical director.
About thirty religious bodies of Roumanian Jews in America sent delegates to a meeting at the First Roumanian American Congregation in New York. Speakers including Edward Lauterbach urged forming a federation and urged Jews to shed stereotypes of avarice and support Israel’s cause, with others presenting speeches in German.
The battleship New Hampshire, latest US Navy addition, was put in commission recently and will depart Philadelphia for New York this morning en route to the navy yard expected tomorrow. It is a sister ship of the Vermont Kansas Connecticut and Louisiana.
Announcement to St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church parishioners in East Second Street says Justice O Gorman of the Supreme Court authorized transfer of all property from the trustees to the new church corporation. The move ends a two year effort as the church, once pastor governed, shifts to lay trustees.
Poem contrasts a mother’s daytime club talks on child training with domestic chaos at home. A tired father endures misbehaving Ned and Gladys as he mends a tattered flag, imagining social events and political figures, venting frustration at a Congress man and woman.
The Brandus Collection exhibition at Fifth Avenue Art Galleries features Drouais Rigaud Van Loo and Corot works alongside English portraits by Romney Hoppner and Winterhalter. The Woman's Art Club hosts its seventeenth annual show at Bauer Folsom Galleries from April 1 to 15 with prizes of 100, 10 and 25 dollars for top oil and watercolor works awarded by Mrs Huth Fayne Burgess and others.
Over 100 merchants and bankers petition Secretary Strauss of the Department of Commerce and Labor to send a delegate to the Lisbon International Telegraph Conference on May 4. They urge protection of American commercial interests against Central and South American efforts to return to a restricted cable code using only bona fide words from seven European languages. The London 1903 code allowed any pronounceable syllables.
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