Publication offices and street listings across cities
Offices listed in New York Washington Philadelphia and London with address fragments including Limes Square Downtown 8 Spruce Street Wall Street Washington Post Building Philadelphia Public Ledger Fleet Street and Rue du Sentier. The text catalogs publication locations and building names rather than a cohesive event.
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New York
Publication Wesecee
Limes Square
Spruce Street
Wall Street
Washington
Washington Post
Philadelphia
Public Ledger
Slondon
Ee Ee
Fleet St
E. C. Tes Eae
Rue du Sentier
Bryan and Taft at Chicago banquet mark campaign tone
Commentary notes Mr Bryan and Mr Taft shared cordial remarks at a Chicago Association of Commerce banquet. The piece argues the gathering signals a calmer, more cooperative mood in this campaign, with both candidates receiving favorable portrayals and the public showing subdued partisan energy. It contrasts past rivalries with this year’s unusual unity and cites Justice Holmes on state power over natural resources ahead of a federal census.
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Bryan
Tarr
Chicago Association of Commerce
Mr. Taft
Hares
Mr. Tilden
Blaine
Cleveland
Tart
Chicago
Mr. Bryan
Private Wild Forests and Water Power Safeguards
Mr James P TovMan told cotton manufacturers at Saratoga Springs last week that legislation should curb timber cutting to protect water power streams. He argued one man's use of property must not endanger others welfare, a principle affirmed by Maine New Jersey courts and by the U S Supreme Court on April 6 1908.
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Houlmes
Maine
Justice Holmess
Supreme Court
President’s Conservation Commission
Counies
James P. TovMan
Saratoga Springs
New Jersey
Federal Supreme Court
The Giant Pennant Lament as Cubs Win 1908 Title
The piece mourns the Giants loss and celebrates the Cubs winning the 1908 National League pennant after a championship battle with Detroit. It notes a dramatic Sept. 23 tie game, a huge crowd at Coogan's Bluff, and cheers for Captain Chance's men amid local opposition and enduring scrutiny.
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Giants
Cubs
Chicago
Detroit
Coogan
Chance
Thaw examination urged to determine sanity of Thaw
Justice Mints of Westchester urges an insanity evaluation for Thaw, arguing the test should occur in a county other than where the homicide occurred. The case, long tied to Matteawan, hinges on competent evidence of mental condition and the community’s interest remains strong.
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Mints
Westchester
Stanford White
Jeromme
Thaw
Matteawan
This Unhappy Land and Public Attitudes
The writer challenges reader dissent about the phrase this happy land and notes hunger and unemployment among children and workers. They reject transferring governance to critics while criticizing the superiority claimed by reformers and stressing context matters in judging individuals.
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United State
Happy Land
Bette
Bloomingdale
White House
The Happy Land. Tax Policies and Civic Reform
The piece argues that despite tax disputes, the nation remains the world’s happiest and defends church tax exemptions as acceptable. It discusses Allen’s bureau proposal to standardize municipal research, train investigators, and potentially reform city and national governance toward a scientific, cost-saving system.
Bryan’s claims on panics and prosperity debunked
The article argues that Democratic victory rhetoric by Mr Bryan misreads economic history. It cites lower failure rates since his candidacy began, compares 1893 1896 and 1907 banking failures, and notes deposit guarantees diminishing need. It concludes his diagnoses of business troubles are incorrect.
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Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Parker
Esopus
United States
Congress
Citizens seek a watchdog bureau for efficient government
A letter advocates a paid, trained body to monitor governmental efficiency and outcomes. It describes a vigilance committee like Greater New York’s Bureau of Municipal Research and notes head William H. Allen outlines three years of work for a $150,000 budget in The Atlantic Monthly October issue.
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Central Foundation
Boston
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Louisville
Atlanta
Central Fund
Bureau of Municipal Research of
Greater New York
Willliam H. Allen
Atlantic Monthly
Bureau
Living wage and equal pay debate hums through Times column
The Times weighs Surrogate Beckett's appeal for paid dependents and a living wage against the old idea of pay by work. It notes the rising view that wages reflect need and social costs, not only output, and recalls Chicago banquet humor and a Civil War era toast gone awkward.
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Beckett
Uderstood
To Merkle: A Proposed Verb Enters American Vocabularies
A newspaper feature argues for adopting the verb to merkle as a distinctly new word. It notes readers understood it instantly in context and cites precedent for turning names and nouns into verbs, urging inclusion in dictionaries and wider usage.
Cleveland Letter Authenticity Debate Across Papers
District Attorney Jerome probes the genuineness of a Grover Cleveland letter in The New York Times. Cleveland's executor alternately called it genuine and later questioned its authenticity, prompting calls for a full public, timely truth before the Taft election. Various editorials from The Cleveland Plain Dealer The Louisville Evening Post and The Buffalo Evening News urge decisive inquiry and publication of results.
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Cincinnati Tribune
Jerome
Grover Cleveland
NEW York Times
Cleveland
Grover
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New York District Attorney's Office
Taft
NEW York Timer
Law Department
Louisville Evening Post
Kern
Hastings
Carlisle
TIMES
Buffalo Evening News
Respect for a Predecessor in Will Taft’s Campaign
Letter to the editor recounting admiration for Taft and his tribute to predecessors. Cites German chancellor and bisected lines from classical motto. Mentions Yale student days in Cincinnati and New York, dated Oct 6, 1998, highlighting support and opinion about the presidential candidate.
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New York Times
Taft
Roosevelt
Prince Buelow
Bismarck
Yale
Cincinnati
New York
Editorial Letter Opposes Young Women Entering Labor
A Brooklyn reader objects to the view that young women choose employment, arguing many work because necessity and weather imperatives force them to labor. questions a father's duty and highlights mothers supporting dependents in 1908 New York.
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New York
Brooklyn
N. Y
Suburban Move Proposed by Jerseyite Letter
A New York Times reader urges editors to send the city strangers to pleasant suburbs around New York where they can meet congenial people by joining a church. The Jerseyite signs as from New York on October 7, 1908, noting suburbanites would not return to the city.
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New York Times
New York
Heat dates set for city flats in October and April
A New York dispatch from October 7, 1908 notes strict heating rules: no heat before October 15 and no heat after April 1, regardless of temperature. The writer expresses a hopeful view that residents will warm up while flats may not.
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New York Times
New York
Ship Cearense Survives Atlantic Hurricane Run
The steamer Cearense rode out a fierce hurricane after leaving Barbados on Sept 30 with twenty one passengers. The ship listed to port twenty five degrees and decks were awash as oil bags were tossed over the weather bow to calm the seas. The vessel reached port late yesterday as conditions eased.
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West, Indies
Cearense
Charense le
Barbados
Davies
Grand Jury Challenge in Queens County Case
A bias challenge was aimed at the full Queens County Grand Jury before Justice Garretson in Flushing in the Hirsch case tied to Capt. Peter Hains Jr. and T Jenkins Hains. District Attorney Darrin and Foreman Williams faced questions as Hirsch sought delay while McIntyre alleged Williams’s friendship with the Annis family and public remarks. The panel recessed to Monday as arguments were set for the next session.
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Queens County ”Grand Jury
Garretson
Flushing
David C. Hirsch
John F. McIntyre
Peter ©. Hains, Jr
T. Jenkins Hains
Wetimen
William E. Annis
Darrin
William H. Williams, Jr
Hirsch
Grand Jury
Foreman Williams
Annis
McIntyre
Williams
Hains Brothers
Mondavy
FIND MISSING MAN IN WOODS NEAR EDGECOMBE AVENUE
Peter M. Lacey, living with sister Mrs. Eliza Weeks of South Orange, N J, was found in woods near 164th Street and Edgecombe Avenue by a West 152d Street police officer. He was half senseless from two self inflicted wrist cuts with a razor. Lacey admitted his identity after hospitalization at J Hood Wright Hospital. He said he wished to die due to age, hardship in finding work, and despondency. He is a painter aged 56 and doctors expect recovery.
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Peter M. Lacey
Eliza Weeks
South Orange
N. J
164Th Street
Edgecombe Avenue
Scarlett
West 152d Street
Lacey
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Electric Show Aids Charity At Madison Square Garden
The Electric Show drew the week’s largest attendance at Madison Square Garden. Charity led hundreds of socially prominent women to the arena and half of that day’s receipts were donated to Loomis Sanitarium Annex. Mrs. Richard Irvin chaired the women’s committee with vice directors Mrs. J Dynier Prince, Mrs. Moses Taylor, Mrs. Robert Winthrop, Mrs. Frank Hunter Potter, and Miss Anne Morgan.
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Madison Square Garden
Loomis Sanitarium
Richard Irvin
Irvin
J. Dynier Prince
Moses Taylor
Robert Winthrop
Frank Hunter Potter
Anne Morgan
Taxpayer Seeks Court Scrutiny of City Waste Fight
John Leary, writing from New York on October 8, 1908, rejects Times suggestions that the Public Service Commissions suit against the Constitution is politically motivated. He states the case is solely a small taxpayer’s effort to protect city property from waste and invites The Times to scrutinize the record to prove otherwise.
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The
New York Times
Adolph Gubner
Public Service Commissions
Times
the Times
New York
John Leary
Embalming fluid and distress flag at cemetery gate
A garbled note mentions Wholesale Druggists Bryan and Kern at Fulton Street crossing Groasway. It references embalming fluid and a distress signal from a starry flag pointing to the setting sun near a grav eyard, with UNDERTAKER noted in Brooklyn in October.
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New York Times
Bryan and Kern
Fulton Street
Groasway
Brooklyn
Trouble in the Balkans by Arthur Guiterman
A satirical verse on Balkan tensions with playful country caricatures and drum beats. The poet mocks grand powers, ultimatums, and prophecies of Armageddon while predicting little real conflict amid theatrics and bargaining.
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Arthur Guiterman
Madonna by Bellini at Metropolitan Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art announces addition of a well preserved Madonna by Bellini and a pedestal from the Peacock Throne of the Delhi palace to its display. The painting, on poplar panel, shows the Virgin with Child set against an orange curtain. signature Joannes Bellinus appears. Pedestal inlaid with lapis, jade, carnelian and marble accompanies the display. Egyptian antiquities from Amenemhat II Lisht arrive for December exhibit.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christ
Madorina
Joannes Bellinus
Issertha
Delhi
Indi
Persia
Nadir Shah
Tytler
South Kensington Museum
Albert M. Spthger
Museamb
Pyramid of
Amenemhat Lat Lisht
Ocean
Lythgoe
Aberdeen
Vorkiiaen
Staten Island Transfers Hearing Before Public Service Commission
A brief hearing before the Public Service Commission addressed Staten Island residents' complaints about two trolley lines not issuing transfers at key points. Evidence on franchise agreements and transfer arrangements was presented before adjourning the hearing to October 7 with objections from Adrian H. Larkin and sharp remarks from Arthur Du Bois regarding commission powers.
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Public Service Commission
Staten Island
Rogers
Adrian H. Larkin
Arthur du Bois
Dresser Shipbuilding Suit Talks to Enter Supreme Court
Conferences between the prisons involved in the Dresser shipbuilding suit continued yesterday and are seen as moving toward a settlement in the Supreme Court at Mineola. Wall Street had anticipated a settlement and interests including Mercantile Trust Company and the law firm Alexander and Green were reported to have made overtures. Sir Leroy Dresser offered no new disclosures yesterday.
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Dresser
Supreme Court
Mineola
Wall Street
Mercaritite Trust Company
Alexander & Green
Leroy Dresser
United States Shipbuilding Company
Women pay for own marriage licenses in Washington
Special to The NY Sun reports a landmark step toward female emancipation in Washington. Two brides to be, Miss Alice M. Ford and Miss Laura V. Harding, paid the $1 fee for licenses with their fiancés present, becoming the first in the district to have licenses paid by the brides themselves. Two other couples, Miss Mamie Shepherd and Miss Anna Keller, also arranged marriages this week with similar steps.
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New York
Washington
Alice M. Ford
Laura V. Harding
Arthur F. Trammelle
Roert Morgan
Mamie Shepherd
Anna Keller
Tuesay
Women inspect the Danville Marriage Bureau visit
Fourteen Danville women toured City Hall rooms including the budget hearing and Aldermanic Chamber. They viewed the mayor's reception room and the new marriage license bureau during a visit prompted by local coverage in The Danville Press Democrat.
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Danville
ITL
New York
Danville Press-Democrat
City Hall
Board of Estimate
New
Jewish Maternity Hospital Benefit Planned Opening Soon
The new Jewish Maternity Hospital at 0 and 272 East Broadway will open in a few weeks and receive patients. To fully equip the building about $10,000 is still needed, and the Ladies Auxiliary will hold a whist and dure at Terrace Garden on Oct. 2 to raise funds.
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Jewish Maternity Hospital
East Broadway
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