Amusements listing for New York city theaters today
A dense rundown of vaudeville bills and film showings across multiple venues including the Academy of Music Garrick Harlem Empire and Orpheum with titles such as The World in Wax The Royal Mounted The Witching Hour and The Merry Widow plus Burlesque and Circus acts. Many start around 2:15 to 8:20 p.m.
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Academy OF Music
Warrens
Virginia
Holland
Daly’ S
Empire
Garrick
Royal Mounted German
Hackett
Hammerstein’s
Herald Square
Bippodrome
Mort Arthur
Hugson
Knickerpocker
New York
Liberty
Petty
Circus Lyceum
Lyric —S
Don Ixote
Madison Sgucre Garden
Amatestic
Kncise!_ Quartet
Amsterdam
Orpheum
Stuyvesant
Kiel
Weber Music Hall
Newark Daily Tribune Publisher Details and Address
Newark Daily Tribune April 9 1908 edition lists The Tribune Association as owner and publisher. Office and principal place of business at Tribune Building 154 Nassau Street New York. Ogien Mills is president and Nathaniel Tuttle secretary and treasurer.
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New York
Tribae Building
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Nassau Street
Ogien Mills
Nathaniel Tuttle
Stormy Congress in Session and Clash Over Rail and War Plans
Reports from Washington describe a stormy session in Congress with rules to curb filibusters and two resolutions from Speaker Cannon on the Paper Trust. Foreign news notes unrest in Hayti and a new British Premier, while domestic coverage mentions battleships funding proposals, Albany debt and interest debates, railroad merger talks, and libel suits. Weather forecast calls for rain with highs near 55 and lows around 47.
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United States
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Biarritz
London
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France
Reichstag
Washington
Albany
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
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Boston & Maine
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Chamber of Commerce
Boston
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Navy Department
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Stevens
Washington City
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Brooklyn
Newark
Seventh Avenue
Haffen
John P. Mitchel
New York University
Hoard
Charles W. Morse
Alfred H. Curtis
E. H. Harriman
Erie
Lasala
Sinz Sing
House Passes Narrow Railroad Liability Bill
The House approved a revised railroad liability measure aimed at common carriers by rail. It limits the scope to interstate and certain federally controlled rail operations, excluding purely intrastate activities. The bill seeks to address Supreme Court objections by separating interstate from intrastate conduct and clarifying where federal regulation applies.
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Congressional debate on railway liability bill and constitutional questions
The passage argues the liability bill extends federal power over interstate rail operations and addresses concerns about commerce scope, due process, equal protection, and the fellow servant doctrine. It notes lower court views, dissenters, and the likelihood the measure will survive judicial review.
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Congress
Anti-Gambling Bills Fail On Tie Vote And Path Forward
The 25 to 25 tie on anti gambling measures is not final. Governor Hughes will pursue further action, likely through a special session or caucus moves to strengthen support, as Republicans align behind the bills and Democrats oppose. Public opinion and timing shape prospects for eventual passage.
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Public Service Commissions
Franchot
Senate
Brooklyn Bridge Report Praises Safety and Craftsmanship
The Bridge Department's Public Service Commission report deems the Brooklyn Bridge safe under heavier traffic and in better condition than ever. Experts Burr and Moisseiff affirm its continued strength, dismissal of electrolysis fears, and pride in American workmanship and design.
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Public Service Commission
Brooklyn Bridge
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Moisseiff
America
Great Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge as the Large Suspension Bridge Marvel
The bridge is praised as the largest suspension structure and the most beautiful, combining enormous size with high serviceability. It is described as a concrete testimonial that suspension bridges of great scale can be both aesthetically pleasing and highly practical.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Bad Work in New Jersey Leaves Promises Unkept
The Legislature at the bosses dictation repudiates pledges and stalls Public Utilities and Civil Service bills. Governor Fort Senator Ackerman Assemblymen Martin and a GOP majority loyal to honesty deserve praise for fighting to keep faith and serve the people.
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New Jersey
Fort
Ackerman
Martin
Trenton
Republican Party
Western states swing to dry reform in tight saloon battle
The Anti-Saloon League claims victory across Michigan Nebraska Colorado and especially Illinois where nearly 1500 saloons were eliminated by ballots leaving 31 counties dry. Rural districts swept dry while cities faltered amid urban crime arguments and cultural forces shaping temperance outcomes.
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Middle West
Michigan
Colorado
Ilinois
Nebraska
Rockaway Park Seaside Park Plan Stalls Over Land Purchase
The city delays acquiring Rockaway Beach land for a proposed large seaside park and hospital site as years pass since initial approval. Benevolent donors had funded 250000 dollars to secure the land if title is obtained by October 1 next, with various legislative and city actions pending. The matter remains in limbo, with no new orders issued.
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Andrew H. Green
New York
Rockaway Beach
Playgrounds Association
Rnockaway Beach
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Commissioners of Estimate
Board of Health Tightens Oysters Sale Rules
A city health board acts weeks before a deadline to require written permission for holding or selling oysters. The move aims to protect sanitary welfare and improve oyster quality amid fears of typhoid transmission from sewage-fed oysters.
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Board of Health
Oyster intoxication risks rise with pollution and bloating practice
The writer warns that growing oyster consumption amid sewage pollution increases infection risk. He calls for safeguards and condemns bleaching and bloating oysters, suggesting discard of shell liquor and washing oysters in clean water. Health board assurances that oysters come from clean water would boost sales and consumer confidence.
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Board of Health
The Nation Reflects On Agriculture Policy And International Tongues
An April report notes 1.3 percent winter wheat condition and a 400 million bushel crop forecast. It praises spring rains, warns against overreliance on calamity issues, and mentions land value and Central Park potato prospects. It critiques congressional frictions and notes shifts in language teaching and Anglo German relations.
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Central Park
Rooms at Three Dollars a Week and Other Humorous Bits
A woman's request for a cheap hotel room prompts a clerk to joke about vacancy until a guest dies or marries. The page features quips about surgeons, a humorous exchange on a former spouse, descriptions of Munichs clock, a tax on salaries in the Philippines, and light banter on religion and commerce.
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Honeless
White House Briefs On Rail Equal Accommodations And Waterway Plan
The President released a letter dated April 2 directing the Attorney General to pursue railroads that fail to furnish equal accommodations for black and white passengers. A White House conference discussed an inland waterway from Boston to southern Florida with Representatives Moore Wanger Goulden Capron Burton Delaware and Small. The President will attend the cornerstone laying for the Bureau of American Republics early in May. Senators Borah and Piles and Representatives Weeks Kahn OConnell Jones Hale Fornes net and Wood called at the White House. Mrs. Stanley Matthews’ guest has gone to New York. Colonel Watterson left for the New Willard to await Mrs. Watterson’s return.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
White House
Boston
Florida
Moore
Wanger
Goulden
Capron
Burton
Delaware
Small
Bureau of American Republics
Borah
Piles
Weeks
Kahn
O'Connell
Jones
Hale
Fornes
Net
Wood
Diplomatic corps entertains at Washington spring events
Austrian Ambassador and Baroness Hengelmuller attend a luncheon in Baltimore then return. French Ambassador departs for Charleston to address the Society of the Cincinnati, returning Friday. German Ambassador von Sternburg hosts a spring reception in a blossom filled embassy with notable guests including Vice President Fairbanks and Mrs. Fairbanks, and many cabinet officials. British Ambassador Bryce hosts Mrs Ward and Miss Ward and Professor Burr and Mrs. Burr arrive for a visit. Baron Giskra of Austria travels to New York then sails to Europe for leave, planning to join family in Austria.
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Washington
Hengelmuller
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Charleston
S. C
Society of the Cincinnati
von Sternburg
Langham
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Root
the Treasury
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Taft
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Miss Ward
England
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Professor Burr
Oriel College
Oxford
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Mrs. Bryce
Baron Giskra
Mexico
Austria
New York
Europe
Washington Society News Briefs
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, wife of the ambassador to England, will arrive in Washington and guest Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cowles for a short stay. Mrs. Cowles hosts an afternoon reception honoring Mrs. Reid and Mrs. Humphry Ward. Mrs. B. H. Warder has left Washington for New York en route to Europe, absent until fall.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Will of Truman J Backus Filed for Probate in Brooklyn
The will of Truman J Backus former president of Packer Collegiate Institute Brooklyn was filed for probate yesterday in Brooklyn Twelve cash bequests of large amounts are made to his children and grandchildren A servant Je tne Furke receives monthly compensation He sons Grosvenor H Backus and Alexander H Backus and daughter Mrs Roseoe x Brown named as residuary legatees The residuary estate is more than 3 10
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Truman J. Backus
Packer Collegiate Institute
Brooklyn
Do Residuary Legetees
Crown Prince A Wood Turner In Berlin
In Berlin the Crown Prince Frederick William, obeying a tradition that princes learn a trade, ordered a lathe into a palace bedroom and spent the morning turning chair legs. Emperors William and the royal lineage include a cabinet maker and a bookbinder in their ancestry.
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Berlin
Frederick ‘William
Emperor William
Archer to lecture at Columbia on Elizabethan playhouses
William Archer, English dramatic critic, will lecture at Havemerer Hall Columbia University this afternoon at four on The English Playhouse of the Elizabethan Period. The talk will include pictures of old English playhouses.
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William Archer
Havemerer Hall
Columbia University
Professor Bashford Dean Reads European Museums
Among Columbia University faculty spending the summer in Europe Professor Bashford Dean and Mrs. Dean sailed last week. He will visit Spain museums and private collections then Naples for zoological station work. He plans to gather material for the American Museum of Natural History gallery of fishes.
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Europe
Bashford Dean
Dean
Spain
Naples
Gallery of
American Museum of Natural History
Transatlantic Travellers List Departing For Europe
Passengers sailing today to Hamburg Bremen Hayre Naples and other European ports include Mr and Mrs Edward L Breweter Mr and Mrs George Ti Hats Wilson Marshall Mr and Mrs Shillard Smith and several others. Names include Moncure Robinson Cortland Field Bishop Reginald De Koven Stephane Lauzanne Granville Harker and Fulton along with families and companions.
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Amberska
Edward L. Breweter
George TI
Hamburg
Wilson Marshall
Shillard- Smith
Rm Willam Lawrence Green
Alvey A. Adee
Cortland Field Bishop
Utes
J. Emery
Julee Moniant
Cooper Trewitt
Reginald de Koven
Stephane Lauzanne
Granville Harker
Carpathia
Naples
W. F. Aldrich
John R. Harris
Albert W
Es Knapp Fulton
Thomas H. Rodman
Color of Eggs an Asset in Market Egg Buying
The article notes market demand drives breed choice for egg production. New York City and nearby markets favor white shells, while Boston pays premiums for brown eggs. Across the country most markets show no color preference, making brown or white eggs rarely affect price outside these few hubs.
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Outing Magazine
New York City
Boston
HOUSES WITHOUT BEDROOMS
The Washington Post reports on a new era in flat house design with sanitary disappearing wall beds. Bedroomless apartments aim to convert two and three room suites into equivalents of larger units, offering all day sanitation with beds folded into closets and ventilated windows.
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Washington Post
Wien
High Society Notes Sailings and Weddings Fly East
Social headlines report numerous departures for Europe today including Mr and Mrs William Douglas Sloane and Mr and Mrs Jules Montant. engagements and weddings progress with Miss Emily F Welles to wed April 2 in Grace Church and Mrs Henry W Taft returning from abroad to stay at West 73rd Street home.
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Europe
Jules A Montant
Eliot Gregory
Provence
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Paria
Harry Pelham Robbins
Emily F. Welles
Bes.jamin Welles
Grace Church
Union Club
Henry W. Taft
Louise Taft
Arthur W. Talcott
Arta W. Talcott
Henry Edwards Rowland
Edward Wickeff Harris
Ie Rowland
East 66Th Street
Henry Forbes McCreery
Majestic
England
Ireland
Social Notes from Newport Cottage Rentals and Returns
One cottage rental was announced today Cliff Lawn the property of Winthrop Chanter to Thomas Hitchcock who has occupied it several seasons Mrs Sidney J Colford returned to her cottage this evening from New York
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Newport
Cliff Lawn
Winthrop Chanter
Thomas Hitchcock
Sidney J. Colford
New York
Calhounish referenced in early reader letter to editor
A reader from Clinton North Carolina on April 2 1908 asks the Tribune to reexamine a historian’s work and claims a scribal trace of Calhounish ideas appears in old Massachusetts debates. He cites John Hancock Danial Webster and Justice references as evidence that Calhounism vanished from textbooks.
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John Senderson
Issacs
Robert E
John Hancock
Massachusetts
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Brown
Holmes
Moody
Clinton, N. C
G. F
Woman on School Boards Advocates Participation
A reader from Westchester letter dated April 6 1988 thanks The Tribune for Dr Stephen Wise writing on standing alone. The writer argues women belong on school boards as invaluable members and says men defer responsibility to capable women for better governance.
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Stephen
Mit
Womer
Westchester
View from Skyscrapers at West Street Building
A Pittsburg reader praises the West Street Building in New York after a visit, calling the view enchanting and urging the replacement of old structures with grand hotels like Waldorf Astoria and Astoria. He envisions living apartments in the area and notes the current neighborhood as a disgrace.
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New York
West Street
Pittsburg
S& M
Choate Returns After Havana Trip Brief Rest
Joseph H. Choate arrived yesterday aboard the Ward liner Havana after a short rest. He said the voyage had been of great benefit to him and declined to discuss political matters.
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Joseph H. Choate
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Mr. Choate
Miss Loeb Married in Rome
Miss Annette Loeb daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Loeb of New York arrived in Rome to wed Signor Arturo L Zara a member of the Italian Parliament. Signor L Zara is described as wealthy with iron interests.
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Annette Loeb
Charles Loeb
New York
Arturo
Zaro
$100,000 Gift For Philadelphia Girls High School
Archbishop Ryan announced a $2000 gift by a woman believed to be Mrs. Frederic Capfield Penfield formerly Mrs. Anne Weightmen Walker for a proposed Catholic high school for girls in Philadelphia.
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Ryan
Frederic Capfield Penfield
Anne Weightmen Walker
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