Roosevelt forms commission on country life reforms
President Roosevelt asks five experts to study farm conditions and recommend improvements for better social, sanitary, and economic life on American farms. The panel includes L. H. Bailey, Henry Wallace, Kenyon Butterfield, Gifford Pinchot, and Walter Page. recommendations due by year end to inform Congress.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Congress
H. Bafler
New York College of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Wallace
United States
L. H. Bailey
New York State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
N. Y
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Amherst
Mass
Gifford Pinchot
United States Forest Service
Walter H. Page
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Lizzie’s Fresh Air Fund Journey Ends in Truth and Departure
Lizzie confesses she lied about her father’s unemployment when applying for the Fresh Air Fund trip. She returns after a short time, then joins ninety nine other girls as they depart for Litchfield Connecticut while more groups prepare to leave for New York State New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Tribune Fresh Air Fund faces daily expenses estimated at one thousand dollars for the current week.
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Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Lizzie
Litchfield
Conn
New York State
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Proceeds from Tivoli lawn party listed by donors
The record shows receipts from a lawn party hosted by three girls at Tivoli on the Hudson Lena S Decker Alice L Schuette and Mildred L Feroe. Donations include Marion R Pell Hampton Conn 100 Mrs H H Baird Bethel Conn 5 William Mason Wallingford Vt 500 The Pennsylvania Chautauqua Lebanon Penn through H J Shenk treasurer 1408 and August 8 1906 total 14444 89. Previously acknowledged 18447 89 total August 8 1906.
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Tivoli-on-the-Hadson
Lena S. Decker
Alice L. Schuette
Mildred L. Feroe
Marion R. Pell
Hampton
Conn
H. H. Baird
Bethel
William
Mason
Wallingford
Pennsylvania Chautauqua
Lebanon
Penn
H. J. Shenk
Shubert Establishes Julia Marlowe and Sothern Scholarships
Lee Shubert launches foreign study prizes to develop young actors under his management. Two winners annually, men for the Sothern prize and women for the Marlowe prize, aged 20 to 30, will study at the Théatre Français in Paris for a year and tour major European capitals. Winners sign five year contracts with Shubert Enterprises before departing.
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Europe
Lee Shubert
Julia Marlowe
Edward H. Sothern
Sothern
Marlowe
Shubert
Théatre Francais
Paris
Shupert
New Theatre
Fte
America
London
Berlin
Vienna
Shuberts
WANTS THEATRE TRUST PROBED
The Central Federated Union and Actor s Protective Union seek an investigation by United States Attorney General Bonaparte into a planned merger of theatrical interests across cities. De Veaux calls the merger a trust that could freeze out independent companies and affect actors, builders, posters, lithographers, and other workers.
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Central Federated Union
de Veaux
Actors’ Protective Union
United States
Bonaparte
Theatrical News: Daly and Theatre Plans Abroad
Arnold Daly arrived from vacation to perform in The Regeneration this season. He will present The Jury of Fate by C S McLellan. he notes a sparse Paris scene and few London plays worth seeing. Harrison Rhodes and Thomas A Wise wrote The Gentleman from Mississippi, about graft in federal politics, to debut at National Theatre on September 14 with Wise in the lead. Louis Mann and Clara Lipman return from Europe. Mann stars in The New Generation. Cohen Harris minstrels head uptown Broadway. Cohan Morris host Cubs and Giants at the New York Theatre tonight. Richard Carle returns to the New York Theatre with a new song Lagnder of Olego in Mary's Lamb.
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Arnold Daly
Daly
C. 8. McLellan
Paris
London
Liebler & Co
Mississippi
Harrison Rhodes
Thomas A. Wise
Mr. Wise
National Theatre
Washington
Louis Mann
Clara Lipman
Europe
Mr. Mann
Cohen & Harris
Minstrels
Broadway
Messrs. Cohan & Morris
Cubs
Giants
New York Theatre
Knickerbocker
Richard Carle
A Future Empress Marriage Ties Hohenzollerns to Austria
The 1908 item reports Princess Victoria Augusta of Hohenzollern engaged to Archduke Francis Charles of Austria, heir to the throne, amid notes on noble titles and succession laws in Germany Austria and England. It covers noble forfeiture rules, royal marriages, and historic connections among European royal houses.
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Brentwood Company
Austria
Hohenzollern
Vienna
Victoria Augusta of
Hohenberg
Francis Charles I
Hungary
Victoria Augusta
William
House of Hohenzollern
Prussia
Romania
Charles
Bucharest
Ferdinand
Rumania
Prince William
Leopold of
Spain
Leopold
Portugal
Sigmaringen
Charles of
Countess
Flanders
Archduke Charles Ferdinand
Prince faces death as trial outcomes loom and costs rise
For three weeks the prince remains imprisoned as physicians declare hopeless recovery and a retrial would restart proceedings. Crown power to pardon is blocked until a verdict, with costs and penalties looming, while his relatives hope for relief through death. Premier Asquith rents Blains Castle in Aberdeenshire, a historic sea cliff residence linked to Erroll. Johnson noted its dramatic setting and sea smells during Boswell’s visit.
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Slain's Castle
England
Mount Edgecumbe
Newport Harbor Opens for New York Yacht Club Fleet Regatta
Newport harbor glistens as the New York Yacht Club fleet dresses ship rainbow for colors. Commodore Vanderbilt and guests tour the U S training station ahead of the King's cup race off Brenton's Reef at 10 30. Start likely affected by wind with Queen Elmina Aurora Istelana Avenger among probable starters.
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Tribune
Newport
R. L
North Star
New York Yacht Club
Queen
Elmina
Aurora
Istalena
Avenger
William Gould Brokaw
Commodore Vanderbilt
F. G. Bourne
J. D. J. Kelley
EE Rae
Willian
Butler Duncan
C. Oliver Iselin
Newberry Thorne
United States Training Station
Prominent Arrivals at the Hotels Belmont
Notable guests include B. R. Upham of Pittsburg Bres Lin Judge W. F. Beasley of North Carolina Hoffman Dr. F. Augustini of Paris TF. S. Croft of Aiken Holland Captain R. F. Hull of Washington Captain J. J. Kabler of Baltimore Dr. D. E. Sprague of Minneapolis Manhattan Captain M. Gray Zalinski of Washington Signor A. Ceriano of Turin Italy Seville Dr. J. Hutchings White of Muskogee Oklahoma.
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Belmont
B. R. Upham
Pittsburg
Breslin
W. F. Beasley
North Carolina
Hoffman
F. Augustini
Paris
TF. S. Croft
Aiken
Holland
R. F. Hull
Washington
J. J. Kabler
Baltimore
D. E. Sprague
Minneapolis
Manhattan
M. Gray Zalinski
Signor
A. Ceriano
Turin
Italy
Seville
Dr. J. Hutchings White
Muskogee
Okla
Weather report and forecast from Washington
Official record notes below normal pressure across the nation with high heat in the west and widespread rain in the mid-Atlantic and eastern Gulf regions. Unsettled conditions expected for two days with showers possible in the Plateau, Rockies, Upper Lake, and Ohio Valley regions and light variable winds along the coasts.
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Washington
Utah
Arizona
Nevada
California
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic States
Plateau
Rocky Mountain
Upper Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Lower Lake Region
New England
Middle Atlantic
East Gulf Coast
West Gulf Coast
Great Lakes
European
Grand Banks
Reform of New York Criminal Law Administration
A New York letter argues criminal justice is slow and corrupt, blaming judges for abuses in jury selection insanity trials and appeals. It cites Patrick Thaw and a New Jersey case to show faster, simpler, fairer systems abroad and urges newspapers to criticize judges to drive reform.
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The
Tribune
New York
Patrick
Thaw
Court of Appeals
New Jersey
Paterson
Jersey
England
Americans asked to send opinions on liquor bans and Bible in schools
A 1908 letter from Kawakawa New Zealand asks American readers to mail replies on prohibition and Bible use in public schools for publication in New Zealand papers. It requests state by state answers on license laws, moral and financial impact, Bible readings, daily scripture time, and state populations, with postage to New Zealand and multiple newspaper editors to receive replies.
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the Tribune
New Zealand
Vancouver
the Times
Kawakawa
America
Auckland
P. S
Evening Post
Wellington
Lyttelton Times
Christchurch
the Dominion
The
Daily Times
Dunedin
the Herald
John G. W. Aitken
Macaronic Poem Variant Wins Readers’ Recital
Arthur M. Clark of Dubuque Iowa shares a collected macaronic poem variant from Greene Hendrick readers. The note thanks correspondents for their versions and presents a playful bilingual piece about cats and rats with a closing moral urged to avoid hungry cats.
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the Tribune
Greene Hendrick
Bishop Potter and vivisection in old reform effort
In a letter from Manchester Virginia, J. N. Cleghorn commends Bishop Potter for supporting reform against animal vivisection. He notes Potter and a minority of bishops oppose scientific animal exploitation and praises Potter as a reformer who leaves a grateful memory.
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the Tribune
Bishop Potter
Huntington
Grace Church
Potter
Protestant Episcopal Church
Tribune
N. Cleghorn
Obituary notices listed for multiple individuals in August
A batch of death notices and funeral details announces or confirms obituaries for Crawford Curtis Fisher Lawrence Littlewood Pease Pryer Scott Skidmore Skidmore Taylor and associated burial or funeral arrangements across New York Maine Connecticut New Jersey and England including dates and locations such as Kensico Cemetery Watertown Greenwood Cemetery and Grand Central Station arrivals.
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Lawrence
Farmace Mra
J. A
Stephen Russell Lawrence
New Britain
Conn
Littlewood
New Rochelle
Amy Bolton
Frank Littlewood
Beauchamp Place
New Hochelle
Pease
Mary Hollister
Walter A Pease
New York City
H. H. Pease
Lenox
Masa
Pryer
Adeline Pryer
Ave
Grand Central Station
Scott
St. Nicholas Avenue
George Stuart Scott
Skidmore
Broadway
Worcestershire
England
Mary Jane Skidmore
Jeremiah Skidmore
Greenwood Cemetery
Taylor
Henry Martyn Taylor
Hamilton St
Poughkeepsie
Real estate and services advertised near Harlem trains area
An accessible listing notes lots for sale from 150 dollars via Harlem trains from Grand Central. It mentions contact options Gramercy for Book of Views or representative at 20 East 2384 St. New York City and Frank E. Campbell at 2413 West 23a St. Also references chapels private and public ambulances with phone 1324 Chelsea.
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Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
East
New York City
Frank E. Campbell
West
Chelsea
Help Wanted Applications Open at Uptown Tribune Office
To the Employer. Do you want desirable help QUICK? SAVE TIME AND EXPENSE by consulting the file of applications of selected aspirants for positions of various kinds which has just been installed at the Uptown Office of THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE, No. 1364 Broadway, Between 36th and 37th Streets. Office hours: 9 a m. to 6 p. m
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New-York Tribune
Broadway
36Th
37Th Streets
Tribune Subscription Rates and International Offices
Subscription options and rates for The Tribune and its Weekly Farmer, with domestic, Canadian, and foreign postages. Listings include columns for daily, tri weekly, Sunday, and almanac products, plus a network of domestic and international offices and agents.
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United States
Mexico
Manhattan
Bromz
Cube
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Tribune Almanac
Tribune Index
New York City
Sunday Tribune
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Dubuque, Iowa
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Tri- Weekly
Fifth Ave
Perlock
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Weber
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Klinger
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