Engagement of Miss Katharine Thompson to Loren N Wood
Announce the engagement of Miss Katharine Thompson daughter of Mr and Mrs J F Thompson of New York and Summit New Jersey to Loren N Wood of the city A banker and director at several firms, Wood a Carleton and Columbia Law School graduate, will wed June 17 at the bride’s Summit country place Bishop Henry Spellmeyer to perform the ceremony Eight bridesmaids invited including Mildred Brennen Jessie Edsall Mabel Bresver Marjorie Finch and others Barry Donovan named best man and ushers include Henry Molloy and Fletcher Neighbors
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J. F. Thompson
New York
Summit
N.J
Katharine Thompson
Loren N. Wood
Thompson
Bankers’ Trust Company
Astor Trust Company
Rock Island Railway
Wood
Carleton College
Columbia University Law School
New York Athletic
Henry Spellmeyer
Miss. Thompson
Wellesley College
Mildred . Brennen
Jamestown
N. Y
Jessie V. Edsall
Wellesley
Mass
Mabel E. Bresver
Brooklyn
Marjorie Finch
N. J
Helen Bannister
Marguerite O Jaaker
Ora M. Lardis
Harriet, H. Stonelake
Alk
Newark
Barry H. Donovan
Henry T. Molloy
Fistcher
Elihu Root
Mrs Woodard a Bride in Fifth Avenue Church
Ralph Hilton Philipson of London married Mrs Florence Woodard of California at the Church of the Ascension Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street. The ceremony by Rev Percy Stickney Grant included Mrs J A Fairweather and Mrs Richard Tattersall. They plan to reside in England after a brief tour in Canada.
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Ralph Hilton Philipson
London
Church of the Ascension
Fifth Avenue
Tenth Street
Florence Woodard
California
J. S. Fairweather
Percy Stickney Grant
J. A. Fairweather
Richard Tattersall
Toronto
Ontario
Courtenay J. Bennett
Phillipson
Mr. Phillipson
Newcastle
England
Canada
Europe
Miss Gretchen Hoyt to Wed Henry Ladd Corbett in June
Miss Gretchen Hoyt daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry R Hoyt hosted a dinner for her bridal party at 2 West Seventy-fifth Street. The ceremony is set for St Bartholomews Church in New York on June 3. Guests included Elizabeth Hoyt Lor raine Roosevelt Rosamond Dixey Edith Landon Anita Peabody and Portlanders Roderick McClay and Henry Corbett. A bachelor dinner will follow at the Hotel Astor.
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Gretchen Hoyt
Henry R. Hoyt
Henry Ladd Corbett
Portland
Ore
St. Bartholomew's Church
West Seventy-fifth Street
Elizabeth
Hoyt
Lorraine Roosevelt
Rosamond S. Dixey
Boston
Dorothy Iking
Edith Landon
Anita L. Peabody
Eliott Corbett
Roderick McClay
Portland, Ore
William B. Boulton, Jr
Francis Peabody
Julian Peabody
Guardner Perry
Gordon S.S. Parker
Henry S. Parker
New York
Corbett
Hotel Astor
Miss Sarah Almy Engaged to H Brooks Price
Washington announces the engagement of Miss Sarah Almy daughter of Mrs John G Almy and the late Rear Admiral Almy to H Brooks Price of New York He is a Johns Hopkins graduate class of 1898 and a member of Hunt Hunt architects No wedding date announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sarah Almy
John G. Almy
Almy
H. Brooks Price
New York
Price
Benjamin Price
Eliza Duvald
West Ninth Street
Johns Hopkins
Hunt & Hunt Architects
Mrs Vanderbilts Harbour View Renovations Under Way
Newport May 28 Mrs Elsie r French Vanderbilt began improvements at Harbour View with plans to add a ballroom and guest apartments while her mother Mrs French will deed the property to her. A steel vault will hold valuables as Vanderbilt moved silverware and jewels to bank vaults. The Hotel St Regis opened terrace dining for summer crowds with social figures including Patterson Westinghouse Schiff Higginson Bliss Dexter Emmet seen in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Newport
R. I
Elsier French Vanderbilt
Harbour View
F. O. French
St. Regis
R. W. Patterson
George Westinghouse
Jacobh H. Schiff
A. S. Higginson
Boston
George T. Bliss
Phiilip Dexter
Robert Emmet
Notable Guests At Local Hotels Highlight Social Week
Guests abound at Gotham and Buckingham hotels after return from travels in Dublin and abroad. Mr and Mrs St John Smith, Mr and Mrs Thomas W Hail Jr, and Norton families are among prominent visitors. A recital by Miss Artemisia Bowen at Demonico's will raise funds for a Northeastern Georgia women’s charitable fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John Smith
Gotham
Dublin
N.H
Europe
Thomas W. Hail, Jr
New Canaan
The
Frank N. Norton
Cannovia
N. Y
Huntington Norton
Buckingham
Richard BoEly
G. ©. Wilder
A. J. Purrington
Washington, LD. C
Artemisia Bowen
Demonico’s
Georgia
Plans for New Theatre by Gaiety Company in Times Square
The Gaiety Theatre on West Forty sixth Street near Times Square will open late August under Cohan Harris. George Mohan will not regularly occupy the house. Cohan forms the Cohan Harris Comedians without a star. Behan joining from Lew Wields cast. opening musical comedy by Cohan slated. only musical productions planned. compact stage allows lavish sets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Fortysixth Street
Times Square
Cohan& Harris
George Mohan
Cohan
Cohan & Harris
George
Anna Held Critiques American Spending Before Sailing
Anna Held spoke on the Savoie about American extravagance arguing that in no country are women so careless with money as in the United States. She pointed to low earners and the rich who live luxuriously, saying she would prefer poverty and happiness over excess. The Savoie then sailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Held
Savoie
Miss Held
America
Hmit
New York
Balfe Centenary Concert in Carnegie Lyceum
The centenary of Irish composer Michael Balfe will be marked next Sunday evening at Carnegie Lyceum. Irish baritone William Ludwig of Dublin will perform selections from Balfe operas including The Heart Bowed Down and The Lights of Other Days with an assist from a Gaelic Society chorus. Tickets are available at Shanley's on Broadway and at 624 Madison Avenue.
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Michael William Balfe
Carnegie Lyceum
William Ludwig
Dublin
Balfe
Gaelic Society
Shanley's
Forty-Second Street
Broadway
Madison Avenue
Brighton Beach Park Opening With New Express Train
Brighton Beach Park opens tomorrow along with the new Brighton Beach express service. Attractions include Al Foon the Chinese wizard Uncle Dan Boynton's trained animals the carrousel and skating rink. Joseph Hart's attractions join the vaudeville at the Brighton Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton Beach Park
Brighton Beach
al Foon
Dan Boynton
Joseph Hart
Brighton Theatre
Casino atong Beach to Open in Italian Renaissance Style
The new Casino atong Beach opens tomorrow featuring an Italian Renaissance design. A glass roof terrace drapes over a cooling water flow above the restaurant and café. The facility includes an open girl with bar adjoining, a rathskeller, an ice manufacturing plant, and a kitchen with $30,000 worth of equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atong Beach
Hair-Raising Explot Would-Be Ringmaster Falls at Y M C A Circus
Crowds fill Columbus Circle to watch a wire stunt by Prof Gene Carr at the West Side Y M C A circus. A pistol signal rang out, Carr slid from the building edge, the wire snapped, and he struck the ground amid cheers and a cloud of sawdust as police cleared the crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Circle
Fifty-sixth Street
Fifty-seventh Street
Eighth Avenue
Ugene Carr
Prof. Carr
West Side
Young Men's Christian Association
Circle
Wighth Avenue
Prof. Carrs
Mrs Reid Wins Appeal In Light And Air Rights Case
In Albany the Court of Appeals ruled for Mrs Whitelaw Reid allowing construction on the rear lot behind her Fiftieth Street Madison Avenue home. The dispute began in 1904 when Edward Mitchell claimed light and air rights and sought an injunction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Appeals
Albany
Whitelaw Reid
Fiftieth Street
Madison Avenue
Reid
Edward Mitchell
O'Gorman
Mr. Mitchell
Sacket, Channian_& Stevens
Cholera Spreads in Pangasinan and Rizal Provinces
Manila reports cholera taking a foothold in Pangasinan with four cities including Daetpean infected. The lightkeeper family at Dagupan lost five members as the disease halted daytime light. Cholera is also rife in Apiz with 231 cases since January in Rizal and Zambales, but no general epidemic is feared.
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Manila
Pangasinan
Daetpean
Bureau of Health
Dagupan
eShelera
Apiz
Rizal
Zambales
Mauretania Heads for New York With One Propeller
The Cunard Line steamer Mauretania sails from Liverpool for New York with a disabled propeller. At noon she was 140 miles west of Fastnet, averaging 24 knots westbound, but Cunard officials doubt a record due to unfinished repairs. She now sails directly to New York using three propellers and speeds around 22 knots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cunard
Liverpool
New York
Queenstown
Fastnet
Cunard Company
General Stephen D Lee Dies in Vicksburg
Lieut. Gen. Stephen D Lee of Columbus Miss, Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, died of cerebral hemorrhage at the Vicksburg National Park Commission residence after delivering a welcome speech to Iowa and Wisconsin regiments. He directed the firing of the first Civil War shot at Fort Sumter and led Confederate veterans at reunions. Born in 1838 in Charleston DC he served at Antietam before commanding at Vicksburg and sought to preside over the Birmingham reunion set for June 8.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Stephen D.lee
Columbus
United Confederate’ Veterans
Lee
Vicksburg National Park Commission
Iowa
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Gen. Lee
South Carolina
Beauregard
Fort Sumter
Charleston
D. C
United States Military Academy
West Point
United States Army
Confederacy
Virginia
Antietam
John B. Gordon
United Confederate Veterans
Birmingham
Death of Wilbur F. Lunt Former Appraisers Board Member
Wilbur Fisk Lunt died at 9:30 last night at his home 49 West 144th Street of apoplexy at age sixty one. He served in the First Maine Cavalry in the Civil War and later as Assistant United States District Attorney for Maine, then joined the Port of New York Appraisers Board in 1890, appointed by President Harrison. He leaves a widow and six children. interment will be in Saco Maine.
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Wilbur Fisk Lunt
United States General Appraisers
West 144Th Street
First Maine Cavalry
Lunt
United States
Maine
Port of
New York
Harrison
Saco Me
Col Clarence Ashley Postley Dies After Brief Illness
Col. Clarence Ashley Postley died at his residence 817 Fifth Avenue after a brief illness. Son of Gen Brooke Postley he was born in 1849 in the city, a West Point graduate of 1870, and married Margaret Sterling in 1874. He belonged to numerous clubs including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several New York and Westchester associations, and was a prominent yachtsman.
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Clarence Ashley Postley
Fifth Avenue
Brooke Postley
West Point
Margaret Sterling
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan, University
Union League
New York
Larchmont
Automobile of America
American Yacht
Jockey
Players
Westchester
Army and Navy Club of
Washington
Banjo Teacher Henry C. Dobson Dies at 77
Henry C. Dobson, renowned banjo instructor who taught generations including Belmonts and members of the Claflin and Vanderbilt families and 30,000 pupils, died at his home on Mott Avenue after a long illness. He began teaching in 1853 at Broadway and Amity Street.
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Henry C. Dobson
Claflin
Vanderbilt
Mott Avenue
Broadway
Old Amity Street
Property Merchant George Shields Dies in Brooklyn at 82
George Shields prominent Bath Beach property owner died yesterday at his home on Bay Twenty second Street and Cropsey Avenue of heart disease after pneumonia. He was eighty three years old.
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George Shields
Bath Beach
Brooklyn
Bay’ Twenty -Second
Cropsey Avenue
Notable Obituaries Across Cities Include Police Detective and Clergy Deaths
Obituaries report the deaths of Miss Nettie A Graves in Morristown New Jersey Detective Sergeant James A Kerrigan of Hoboken and former Episcopal clergyman George Herbert Patterson in Roxbury aged 77 Ernest A Ryan longtime Brooklyn alderman dies of paralysis at home 297 Dean Street Charles K Ladd prominent Illinois Democratic leader dies after months illness Lieut William Kehoe a Bronx Police Department officer dies suddenly at home of apoplexy aged about 60 He served since 1869 and recently worked at Wakefield Station
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Nettie A. Graves
Morristown
N. J
James A. Kerrigan
Hoboken
Willow Avenue
George Herbert Patterson
Roxbury
Ernest A. Ryan
Old City of
Brooklyn
Dean Street
Whlliam Kehoe
Police Department
Richardson Avenue
The
Bronx
Grand Central Station
Wakefield
Kehoe
Walter Satterlee Dead at 65 Noted Artist of NY
Walter Satterlee died at his home on East Eighteenth Street after a weeklong illness. He was 65, born in Brooklyn, and a Columbia University graduate of 1868. An associate member of the National Academy of Design and the Water Color Society, his funeral is set for 10:50 a.m. Monday at St George's Church, Stuyvesant Square. He leaves a brother Dr F Le Roy Satterlee and sister Mrs William H Willis. Renowned for figure painting and genre scenes, his works are in major collections. early training under Edwin White and studies in Paris and Rome with Leon Bonnat and Freeman. He frequently depicted Normandy and Brittany peasants and the Western Indian. A noted piece is The Balsam Cathedral, painted on a lake border in the Adirondacks with campfire light on evergreens forming a cathedral interior.
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Walter Satterlee
East Eighteenth Street
Mr. Satterlee
Tie
Brooklyn
George CC
Mary le. Roy Livingston Satterlee
Columbia
National Academy of Design
The
Water Color Society
St. George's Church
Stuyvesant Square
F. le Roy Satterlee
West Fiftysixth Street
William H. Willis
Edwin White
Paris
Rome
Leon Bonnat
Freeman
Normandy
Brittany
Balsam Cathedral
Adirondacks
Socialists in Commons oppose Edward visit to Russia
London May 28 Socialist members of the House of Commons pressed Premier Asquith to abandon King Edward's planned trip to the Russian Court citing disapproval of aiding exiles in Russia. Foreign Secretary Grey said no new treaty would be discussed during the visit but hoped the trip would improve relations between Britain and Russia.
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London
House of Commons
Edward
Asquith
Great Britain
Russia
Duma
Grey
F Edward
Goven
Attack near Dolores leaves three foreigners dead
Two Americans and one Englishman were killed by bandits near Coachinia, a mining camp of the Greene Copper Company close to Dolores in Chihuahua. No further details were provided.
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Mexico City
Coachinia
Greene Copper Company
Dolores
Chihuahua
Perjury convict Margaret Hamilton sentenced in London
London reports Margaret Hamilton aged 70 received eighteen months penal servitude after an appeal was denied. She testified in the alleged Portland-Duke identity case and is among principal witnesses. The decision was announced in London on May 28.
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London
Margaret Hamilton
Duke of Portland
T. €. Cruce
Revolt in Samos Seizes, Victims in Three Day Fighting
Rebels seize the Prince of Samos, beat him, and besiege the palace in Vathy as three days of fighting rage on. Troops from Smyrna are driven back. gendarmerie aids the revolt. telegraph office seized. casualties reported. Samos, autonomous principality since 1882, lies 42 miles southwest of Smyrna with 50,000 people.
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Constantinople
Samos
Asia Minor
Vathy
Smyrna
Turkey
British Campaign Ends Against Mohmands in Simla
The British punitive expedition against Mohmand tribesmen ends its campaign. Major General Willcocks will return to Indian territory to demobilize. The rapid collapse is credited to Viceroy Lord Minto’s political handling. British losses include 6 officers killed and 9 wounded, 72 men killed and 144 wounded, with many deaths due to cholera.
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Simla
Willcocks
Minto
Epidemic of Personal Crisis Reports Hits St Petersburg
St Petersburg reports a three month surge of personal crisis with an average eighty five deaths per month. This week saw a high single day total of eighteen suicides. Destruction and despondency cited as main causes in the epidemic.
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ST. Petersburg
Marriages in Bloomfield and Nearby Named Couples
In Bloomfield New Jersey on May 28 Charlotte Katharine Tice daughter of Mr and Mrs Joan Griggs Tice married Samuel Ward Boardman Jr son of the late L L D Boardman. Earlier May 27 Katharine Fippinger wed Hugo Klein in a separate ceremony.
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Klein
Fippinger
Katharine Fippinger
Hugo Klein
Obituary notices from Greenwich and surrounding areas
A dense list of death notices and funeral plans across New York and New Jersey for May 1908. Includes private obituaries for Julia Bruce and Georgiana Bulkley Nichols, plus numerous passings with service details at homes, churches, and cemeteries in towns like Morristown, Park Hill, Newark, Jersey City, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia.
Memorial masses announced for Cantlon and Palmer families
Mass for John Cantlon at Church of the Ascension today at 9 A M. Mass for Daniel Palmer and Margaret Palmer at Newark Cathedral tomorrow afternoon. Church notices list services and participants in this memorial week.
Woodlawn Cemetery Access and Funeral Services Listed
Notices provide access options to Woodlawn Cemetery via trains and trolleys with arranged carriage charges and contact details for Frank E. Campbell. The Sons of the Revolution report Kingston participation in a 250th city founding anniversary on Monday June 1, 1908, inviting members to wear insignia and greet Chairman Hon. A. Clearwater.
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Tn Kingston
Mondastune
A.clearwater
Citizens’ Committtee
Henry Russell Drowne
Secrets
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R. H. Philipson
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France
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Chicago
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Tenn
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Pittsburg
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St.Louis
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Y. M. C.A. Circus
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Gorgon Graham
Doubleday, Page & Company Publishers
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