Amusements Schedule of Theaters and Events
A dense list of theater and vaudeville showings across New York venues including Berkeley, Blaney, Broadway, Carnegie Hall, Casino, Colonial, Criterion, Daly, Eden Musee, Empire, Garrick, Hackett, Hammerstein, Herald Square, Knickerbocker, Liberty, Lyceum, Lyric, Madison Square Garden, Majestic, New Amsterdam, Orpheum, Savoy, Stuyvesant, Wallase, and Warer Mush Hall. Highlights include The Squaw Man, Miss Hook of Holland, The Royal Mounted, Polly of the Circus, Die Lustige Witwe, The Merry Widow, and The Soul Kiss with various start times from 1:15 to 8:20 pm.
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Berkeley
Blaney
Deville
Criterion—S
Miss Hook
Holland
Eden Musee
Empire
Garrick
the Royal Mounted
M—Alt Heidelberg
Hackett
Hammerstein
Herald Square
Treus Hudson
Knickerbocker
Talk
New York
Liberty
Polly
Circus
Lyceum
LYRIC
Madison Square Garden
Majestic
Ban Land
Amsterdam
Orpheum
Savoy
Stuyvesant
Wallas
New York Daily Tribune Publication Details 1908
New York Daily Tribune Friday April 10 1908 edition notes ownership by The Tribune Association a New York corporation with principal offices at Tribune Building No 15 Nassau Street New York Ogden Millis president and Nathaniel Tuttle secretary and treasurer with officers’ address listed at the newspaper office.
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Ogden Millis
Nathaniel Tuttle
Congress Shifts Toward Repression of Anarchy
A sweeping federal agenda appears as the President urges further anti-anarchy legislation. Senate adopts the employers' liability bill. House sends army and fortifications appropriations to conference amid minority obstruction. Foreign cables note plots, diplomacy, and trials in Europe. domestic chatter covers anti-racetrack measures, public service appointments, and city politics. Weather forecast calls for a partly cloudy day after a 51/39 temperature spread.
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Anti Gambling Mood Shapes Albany Session Outlook
Governor Hughes urges the legislature to act on anti gambling bills amid a fraught season for racing interests. A Niagara Orleans district special election could swing the balance, with Grady and McCarren maneuvering to influence or replace key votes. The outcome may determine support for racetrack measures even if passed in a special or regular session.
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Hughes
Grady
McCarren
Franchot
Niagara
Orleans
Anti-Gambling Wave Shapes Political Campaigns Across States
The piece argues anti-gambling efforts at racetracks gain momentum, shaping the coming campaign. It notes senators on racing issues face scrutiny, and asserts moral sentiment drives legality over expediency. Governor Folk’s initial defeat and ultimate success illustrate evolving public conscience against bookmakers.
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McCreary bill merits Senate vote on ocean mail amendment
The House committee is accused of timidity for delaying the ocean postal bill which would rearrange foreign mail contracts to raise rates for faster, longer trips to South America, Hawaii, and the Pacific. The argument says the plan merely extends and improves service by utilizing profits from ocean mail, not subsidizing ships, and aims to strengthen American steamship lines and relations with the South, Central America, and the Far East.
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Senate
Post Office Department
American Steamship Lines
United States
Far East
South America
Middle West
Far West
South
Treasury
Great Britain
Germany
Hawaii
Australia
Philippines
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Conquering New Empires and Fort Churchill Rail Ambition
A Canadian House of Commons vote envisions a railway to Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay as a step toward empire expansion. The piece argues the Keewatin region holds vast land and timber, with rich fisheries and potential agricultural growth, but questions the Hudsons Bay Company’s resistance to such a project.
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Canada
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Fort Churchill and the Northwest Fur Wars
The passage describes Fort Churchill near a vast hunting country rivaling Central Africa for wildlife. It credits Hudson’s Bay Company trappers for exclusivity, notes Senate testimony on corporate attempts to block Northwest development, and predicts Americans may ride trains from Chicago to Fort Churchill to stockpile family furs.
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New Jersey Water Supply Ruling Ends Short-Sighted Schemes
The Supreme Court decision upholding New Jersey water rights settles a long dispute over sourcing New York City water from Hudson River and Long Island areas. The editorial urges ending corporate delay tactics, supporting use of Passaic and Rockaway river resources to meet growing northeastern New Jersey needs.
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Hobson’s naval plan draws arithmetic fire
A satirical critique targets Congressman Hobson’s push for naval expansion noting the fiscal arithmetic seems flawed. The piece defends Hobson’s patriotism while warning that funding battleships will subtract from other needs, advocating careful budgeting and even currency reform ideas as a wiser path.
Erie Noteholders Versus Governors Moral Contrast
An Erie-era column mocks political virtue and a Democratic Senate leader’s self‑righteousness. It contrasts perceived integrity with a shadowy partner in crime, then pivots to a satirical dig at statisticians chasing averages while noting the oddity of a single hen outwitting general calculations.
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The Nation’s Wealth and Political Verse in One Echo
A fragmented editorial discusses the share of national wealth consumed by a single hen and the ineffable costs of poultry keeping, then shifts to praise for Governor Hughes and a jab at anti gambling laws. It notes Portland indignation, the value of the Massachusetts ballot, and urges timely Pearl Harbor harbor improvements with $650000 appropriation.
Pneumatic parcel carrier demo in Chicago with boy test
A novel pneumatic parcel carrier test in Chicago sent a thirteen year old boy through a short tube at sixteen miles per hour, unharmed. Officials J M Masten and Postmaster Campbell witnessed for the Postoffice Department which eyes the device for possible cross country mail transit in seven hours.
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New York
Social Roundup From The Nation's Capital And New York
The President labeled anarchists the top menace and urged new laws to curb them. Roosevelt may skip Philadelphia’s 20th anniversary events while invited. A hunting knife was given to 12 year old George Tiffany of New York. Many notable visitors and social events fill the report, including weddings, engagements, society travel, charity balls, and society figures returning from Europe.
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Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania
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Treasury Secretary and others head to Washington
The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs Cortelyou returned to Washington tonight after several days in New York. The Secretary of War will arrive Saturday. Postmaster General Meyer has gone to Boston to preside as temporary chairman of the Republican State Convention tomorrow. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Mrs Straus are expected in Washington Saturday.
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Washington
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Cortelyou
New York
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Meyer
Boston
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Straus
Diplomatic Dinner at British Embassy Includes Baltic and Russian Delegates
Washington April 9 The British Ambassador and Mrs Bryce hosted a dinner for about thirty at the embassy. Attendees included Baron Rosen the Russian Ambassador Prince Koudacheff Professor Bury of Oriel College and Mrs Bury Mr and Mrs Humphry Ward and Miss Ward. A luncheon and tea plans were announced. The Brazilian Ambassador and Mme Nabuco and family will sail for Europe in June for the summer. Commander Don Virgilio Moreno Vera Argentine naval attaché at Tompkinsville will be relieved and sail home with Señora de Vera at month end.
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Oriel College
Bury
Humphry Ward
Miss Ward
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Europe
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Tompkinsville
Legation
Sefiora de Vera
Washington Society Dinners Mark Spring Social Season
In Washington April 9 Senator and Mrs Elkins hosted a dinner with guests including Mrs Stanley Matthews and Mrs McCormick the German military attaché and Frau von Liventus Mr and Mrs W Hayes and Mrs George Law Mr and Mrs Henry Kirk Porter and Miss Hegeman reopen their city house after weeks at Jekyll Island estate Mrs J B Perkins named president of the Congressional Club with officers including Mrs Henry Cabot Lodge Mrs John Sharp Williams Mrs Champ Clark and Miss Wood Miss Eleanor Ridgely hosted a dinner at Chevy Chase Club for Miss Catherine Williams and Francis Bennett Poe with Poe to be married Saturday. guests include wedding party members William Phelps Eno Pierre Lorillard C H Butler and Mrs McClintock among hosts tonight.
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New York
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C. H. Butler
McClintock
Correction of Statement on American University Address
Dr W L Davidson corrects a Tribune report misattributing his remarks at the New York East Methodist Conference. He says he spoke for the American University in Washington to advance Protestantism and Americanism without sectarian aims, noting its Methodist leadership, campus, and funding progress, and clarifies the error about the denomination.
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San Antonio School Gardens Reach Vast Scale
The Kansas City Star reports San Antonio Texas has a large system of school gardens. Ninety four nine plots across twenty nine public schools, one tenth to one quarter acre each, totaling over a hundred acres. Gardens are student driven under superintendents, with agriculture textbooks used in class. Energetic youths expand gardening to homes, transforming unused yards into cultivated plots.
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San Antonio
Tex
Columbia Medical School Admits Stricter Entrance Rules
P. and S. increases requirements for Columbia medical school admission effective in two years. Applicants must complete two years of college level study including physics chemistry and biology. The policy aims to strengthen the universitys technical and professional schools after long consideration.
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Dyeing Rats in Plague Fight San Francisco Test
A San Francisco dispatch to The Baltimore Sun reports Dr. Blue plans to dye rats red and green and release them in separate districts to study rat migration and spread of the sanitary situation. The experiment aims to measure movement speed between districts.
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Rat Extermination Virus Sought by British Groups
Daily Consular Reports from Consul Maxwell Blake in Dunfermline note a British commercial and scientific drive to exterminate rats deemed destructive to property. The UK reportedly offers American chemists a lucrative market for rat-destroying virus that harms only pests but risks contamination and death to its own kind. The German Chancellor has issued a recipe for rat extermination in areas with swine trichinosis due to rat transmission concerns.
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Dunfermline
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Nebraska Wesleyan elects new chancellor
The Nebraska Wesleyan University board of trustees elected Rev. W. J. Davidson of Decatur Illinois to be chancellor. He is pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Decatur and will assume the post next September, succeeding Chancellor D W Huntington who has resigned.
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Lincoln, Neb
Nebraska Wesleyan University
W. J. Davidson
Decatur
Manhattan Club Names New Officers After Annual Meeting
Morgan J. O'Brien was elected president of the Manhattan Club last night succeeding John Howe. Alton B. Parker was chosen vice-president, H. D. Macdona secretary, and S. J. O'Sullivan treasurer at the board of governors annual gathering.
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S. J. O'Sullivan
Sage gift funds ambulance auto for humane society
A. Russell Sage presented a horsepower automobile to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for ambulance use, the car valued at $4.00 without body and seats. Lorillard Spencer Jr announced he would add $500 to equip the vehicle for ambulance service.
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the For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Newport social notes detail seasonal visitors and rentals
Telegraphed social notes from Newport report James Griswold Wentz renting Rev. Dr. Shields’s Ochre Point house for the summer, marking a second season there. Mrs. Charles L. F. Robinson returns from New York, and it is said Mrs Heemann Gelrichs will arrive by May 3, with Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Warren by May 10 and Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hoffman by May 25.
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Rembrandt Under Hidden Portrait Unearthed by Professor
Berlin reports a Rembrandt hidden beneath another painting. Professor Alois Hauser found a portrait of a young man beneath an ugly adult image. Humphry Ward, husband of novelist, bought the painting for 250 dollars at a London auction. A valuation later cited over twenty five times that amount. The double-portrait is now shown in Hauser's studio.
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Mrs Grover Cleveland says Cleveland ill last week
Lakewood New Jersey April 2 Mrs Grover Cleveland denies serious illness reports saying he has been ill the past week but is improving and hopes to be out in a few days
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Hughes and racetrack clash shows unresolved battle
From The Evening Mail and other papers, the racetrack controversy remains unsettled as Governor Hughes sustains pressure against racing interests. Editorials predict renewed fights, possible special sessions, and a split among political factions as public sentiment shifts. The debate centers on anti-racetrack measures and party moral positioning.
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