Amusements and Vaudeville Listings From New York Venues
Amusements section lists multiple vaudeville acts and shows across venues like Herald Square Lyceum Lyric Mendelssohn Hall New Amsterdam Stuyvesant and St Nicholas Rink. Entries include The World and His Wife The World in Wax Jack Straw The Traveling Salesman The Patriot Salvation Nell and Love Watches among others with showtimes and venue labels.
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Vaeuteville
Mississippi
Reys
Musbe
Jack Straw
Paine Hackett
Salvation Nell IN
Vaudeville Herald Square
Hippoprone
Birdland
Hadsox
Frederick Enickerbocker
Wireless Lyceum
Love Watches
Blue Mouse Mendelssohn Hall
New Amsterdam
Little Nemo
New York
Innocence Savots
Winterfen
Stuyvesant
ST. Nicholas Rink
Walllacks
Betty Werer
New York Daily Tribune Details 1908 Ownership
The Tribune Association owns and publishes the New York Daily Tribune. The article lists officers Ogden Mills as president and James M. Barrett as secretary and treasurer, with offices at Tribune Building 154 Nassau Street New York.
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The
Tribune Association
New York
Tribune
Nassau Street
Ogden Mills
James M. Barrett
Insurgent forces near Port au Prince. U S Navy moves
Foreign news reports Simon’s insurgent vanguard within thirty miles of Port-au-Prince as Nord Alexis vows to fight. The U S battleship fleet leaves Manila on homeward voyage with Colombo as first stop. Domestic items include Root Takahira talks, tariff hearings, and indictments in Philadelphia. Weather forecast: rain and much colder tonight.
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Simon
Port-au-Prince
Nord Alexis
Manila
Colombo
Ceylon
Mme
Steinhell
André
Che-Foo
Israel
Berlin
Castro
Bordeaux
Paris
London
Washington
Herbert L. Satterjee
Navy
Jesse C. Joy
Hamilton Bank
Kingston
N. Y
Dana Malone
Massachusetts
Boston
New Haven
State Board of Charities
Albany
State Agricultural School
Industry
Randek’s
J.P McNichol
Philadelphia
John D. Archbold
Oil Trust
Charles M. Schwab
United States Rubber Company
Richard Croker
Charles F. Mary
Tammany Hall
Haffen
Hughes
Commissionere of Accounts
George G. Haye
48Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Holland
Henry Hudson
United States
Mowbray
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Colonel Stokes
William M. Ivins
Charter Revision Commission
Transfers and Profits in City Transit Costs
Public Service Commission statistics show cash passenger numbers rose 5.2 percent since 1906, while transfer passengers grew 18.9 percent. Car earnings per mile edged up from 25.58 to 25.50 cents, suggesting transfers did not ruin revenue though effects depend on service quality and crowding. The debate over reducing transfers continues.
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Public Service Commission
Public Servie Commission
Streetcar Transfer System’s Effect on Ridership and Fares
A historical discussion notes rising per capita cash trips in 1880 and 1008, aided by the transfer system which increased streetcar use. It questions manager cuts to transfers, arguing potential long term loss of riders and suggesting fare boxes or entry registers as better for revenue, citing Tom Johnson’s Cleveland trial increasing returns by 17 percent.
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Tom Johnson
Cleveland
Turin
Santa Catolica
Gomelli
City charter clash over form of government and head officials
A debate over city governance riffs on whether to keep a strong mayor, a single administrator, or a commission system. Critics argue concentrated authority risks poor police and park policy, while a commission or long terms fail to ensure accountability. The piece warns against hiring leaders lacking department know how.
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Boston
Charter Revision Commission
The
Economic Club
Ace
Park Department
Memorials of Lincoln commemorations for Lincoln birth centenary
The Times urges a broad popular observance of Lincolns birth centenary with hundreds of meetings, lectures, and public gatherings nationwide. It endorses local programs in schools churches and halls and supports a proposed $500000 endowment to Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap Tennessee as a lasting national tribute.
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Lincoln
Lincoln Memorial University
Cumberland Gap
Tenn
Tuberculosis Exhibition Opens at Natural History Museum
The exhibition, opened last evening, offers guidance on preventing tuberculosis and managing care. It notes fresh air and home-based measures can aid recovery, reducing hospital costs, and urges physician advice while inviting charitable support for home or special institution use.
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Museum of Natural History
Exhibition charts aid tuberculosis crusade effort
The display uses charts and models from a New York museum to teach, illustrate prevention, and sharpen medical outreach. The exhibit shows patient health measures, aids physicians and students, and showcases global cooperation in the tuberculosis battle, inspiring gratitude for lives saved.
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77Th Street
Governor Fort’s troop move in Perth Amboy defends peace
Opponents urge commissions over troops claiming investigation fixes more than force. The piece argues commissions cannot settle strikes or enforce terms, urging constitutional basis for intervention and praising Fort for maintaining law and order with prompt, discreet action.
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Fort
New Jersey
Perth Amboy
Pesh Amboy
Cognoscenti
Middlesex County
The Third London School Bill Faces Passage
Our London correspondent notes a fair prospect that the third school bill of the current administration will pass Commons with broad support. It aims to place state funded schools under local secular authority while allowing denominational instruction at denominational cost, balancing state control with religious teaching. The measure is a compromise praised by many temperate figures despite clerical and radical opposition.
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London
Westminster
Birrell
House of Lords
McKenna
Runciman
Commons
Bud Cecil
Lord Halifax
Oine
St. Asaph’s
United Kingdom
Mayor Ambition Rumors Stir Atlanta Politics
Controller Metz signals possible mayoral bid as Tammany opposition looms. The piece questions who would take on the administration’s unpopularity and hints at political calculations behind the move. It contrasts Metz’s stance with Tammany’s providential view of the current leadership.
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Metz
Atlanta
Tammany
Mets
Fragmented reflections on politics and revolutions in period prose
A collage of opinions touches on timeless themes from a storm, dynastic succession, and the Republican party’s fate in New York to critiques of hypnotism and republicanism. It notes the Haitian insurgent stance, Port au Prince’s proclamations, and Timothy Woodruff stepping back from a US Senate bid, with Root’s inevitability framed as fortunate.
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Republican Party
Republican Party of
New York
Albany
Anena
Timothy L. Woodruff
United States Senate
Hot Springs
Taft
Root
Spectacle aid helps thousands of London children
A London report cites Miss Susan A. Lawrence of the Association for Supplying Spectacles to Children stating about thirty thousand elementary pupils have defective visions. The group aided two thousand children with spectacles, advancing funds or granting free glasses, and their efforts helped London hospitals cut spectacle prices by half.
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London
Susan A. Lawrence
Association For
Yale Alumni as Governors in Connecticut History
Hartford Dispatch reports that of fifty nine Connecticut chief magistrates, twenty were Yale graduates. The first Yale governor was Thomas Fitch, Norwalk, class of 1721, who served twelve years from 1754 and died in 1774. The last Yale graduate governor noted is Henry Roberts, Hartford, class of 1877, a year before Taft's presidential win.
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Hartford
New Haven Journal-Courier
Connecticut
Yale
Wen
England
Thomas Fitch
Norwalk
Henry Roberts
William H. Taft
One Kind Of Sunday Newspaper Fragment From Emporia Gazette
A reader recalls piling weeks of The Sunday Wert sections in a two wheel cart, filling the door and kitchen doorway with Chromos and comic pages, pink and green pages, a woman's magazine, music sheets, fashion patterns, a false mustache, a rubber doll, cards and a parasol, all destined for disposal as the Sunday Dart is hauled away.
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The
Emporia Gazette
Debutante and Society News From The Tribune Bureau
Washington society notes cover debutante gatherings in Manhattan including at Mrs Charles A Peabody and Mrs Clarence Clough Bustg, with attendees such as Miss Helen Arden Peabody and Miss Beatrix Ruell. It mentions Miss Josephine Osborn’s debut on December 23 and Mrs Woodbury Kane’s planned European voyage. Also reports on officials and diplomats visiting the President, and Ethel Roosevelt attending a junior cotillion in New York.
Diplomatic Corps Activity Highlights Berlin and London Ties
The British Ambassador spent the day in Philadelphia while Mrs. Bryce and other guests hosted luncheon at the embassy. Captain F. G. Sowerby arrives in Washington to replace Captain Hood as naval attaché. German attachés entertained guests including Baron von Richthofen. Count Wedel sails for duty in a week, amid ongoing high level diplomacy. Henry White prepares to vote in Newport before sailing to New York.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Philadelphia
Bryce
James R. Garfield
Wadsworth
Lowndes
James
F. G. Sowerby
Horace Hood
Frau von Livonius
Cairo
Henry White
France
Newport
New York
Washington society notes crowd holiday events and travel
In Washington society the vice president Fairbanks plans a December 19 dinner with the president. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Newberry host a December 10 dinner for Miss Ethel Roosevelt. Mrs. Pinchot and Lady Alan Johnstone travel to New York to visit Mr. and Mrs. Amos Eno then Lady Johnstone sails for Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Foster host their winter guests Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lansing of Watertown. Mrs. Alfred E. Bates departs for Philadelphia for several days.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Fairbanks
New York Society Debutantes Attend Winter Dance at Sherry's
Debutantes gather for the first dance of the season hosted by the Junior Cotillion at Sherry's with Miss of State and Miss Ethel Roosevelt among the guests. The evening features a pre-dance dinner, cotillion led by Stove Phelps with Miss Carol Harriman, and patronesses led by Mrs. Arthus Murray Dodge and others. Also noted is the upcoming wedding of Miss Ethel Cryder to Cecil Higgins at Washington Square and several society receptions and luncheons surrounding the season's debutante activities.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Meyer
Herbert Knox Smith
Henry White
Paris
Shaffer
Indiana
Root
Wright
Girard Pinchot
Cullom
Dixon
Piles
Warner
McCreary
Pearce
Pray
Thomas
Massachusetts
Green
Wheeler
Black
James
Clarkson
Port of
New York
H. H. Kohisaat
Tullio Larrinega
Porto Rico
W. J. Locke
London
A. J. Lomisson
Hawaii
T. B. Wilcox
Portland
Ore
Father York
Huntington
Long Island
John Barrett
Ethel Roosevelt
Harrr
Mises Martha Bacon
Sherry’s
Martha Bacon
Stove Phelps
Carol Harriman
Arthus Murray Dodge
Charles B. Alexander
E. H. Harriman
William M. W. Hoffman
Charles M. Oerrichs
F. Dana Winslow
Frederick W. Whitridge
J. Hoor Wright
Ethel Cryder
Cecil Higgins
Washington Square
Frances Ogden
Duncan Cryder
F. Lothrop Ames
Boston
William Woodward
Henry Vincent Higgins
William S. Breese
Rupert Higgins
H. Fairfield Osborn
FE. H. Harriman
Robert W. de Forest
Archibald Rogers
Junius 8. Morgan
Cleveland H. Dodge
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Walter S. Gurnee
Walter P. Bliss
J. T
Unruly Boys Become Good Citizens at Reform Schools
Albany reports data from the State Board of Charities showing at least 75 percent of boys sent to the State Agricultural School of Industry and the House of Refuge on Randall's Island become useful citizens after discharge. The board notes 45 percent of House of Refuge children and the institutional Industry inmates have been in orphan asylums or protectories.
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Albany
State Board of Charities
State Agricultural School of Industry
House of Refuge
Randall's Island
Austrian Envoy to Japan Named Ambassador to Tokyo
Vienna reports Baron von Carl zu Kulmbach und Rosenburg, first councillor of the Foreign Office, appointed Ambassador to Japan. He previously served as Austro-Hungarian minister at Teheran in 1872, secretary of legation at Constantinople, representation in Berlin in 1894, Minister of Commerce in 1900, and later First Councillor under Baron von Aehrenthal.
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Vienna
Baron von Carl Zu Kulmbach Und Rosenburg
Foreign Office
Japan
Baron von Call
Teheran
Constantinople
Austria-Hungary
Berlin
Baron von Aehrenthal
Miss Helen De Young Weds City Businessman in San Francisco
San Francisco November wedding unites Miss Helen De Young daughter of M. H. De Young Chronicle proprietor, to George Cameron a local businessman. Archbishop Rior dan officiated. This marks the second De Young family wedding in a month following Miss Constanes Le Young and Joseph Tobin.
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San Francisco
Helen de Young
M. H. de Young
Helsingfors Accepts American Professor Exchange Plan
The University of Helsingfors has accepted the American proposal for an exchange of professors. Professor Donner, a prominent philologist, has been appointed to oversee the arrangements.
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Helsingfors
University of Helsingfors
Donner
Social Notes From Newport
Newport society notices report Elbridge Gerry and sons planning to vote tomorrow while Ambassador Henry White also visits ahead of the city election. Woolley arrivals include Sidney Webster and Mrs Bradford Norman, with others returning to New York and Baltimore.
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the Tribune
Newport
Louis JL. Lorillard
New York
Louis B. McCagg
Elsie French Vanderbilt
Reginald ©. Vanderbilt
Paul Andrews
Baltmore
Social Notes From Tuxedo Do House Parties Open Winter
Telegraph notes a lively Tuxedo Park winter with many cottagers and large dinners. Winter sports prep underway as club championship matches in court tennis and racquets begin at the Tennis and Racquet Club. Notables and families listed include Hoffman Miller Mason Snow Newbold Conkling Preston Cammann Robbins Morton Grinnell Gurnee Tuckerman Kane Rogers Hull Tower Munroe Tilton Harris Baker Alexander Redmond Bade gar Carhart Dinsmore Spofford Andrews Lorillard Jr. and other colonists attend dinners and vaudeville at the social house and clubhouse.
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Tuxedo Park
Naual
Hoffman Miller
Price
Alfred Bishop Mason
F. A. Snow
Condon House
Katherine Newbold
Walter Chappell
Alfred R. Conkling
Lewis B. Preston
G. P. Cammann
George S. Robbins
William Morten Grinnell
Tuxedo
Walter S&s Gurnee
Paul Tuckerman
Grenville Kane
H. H. Rogers
George H. Hull
Joseph T. Tower
H. W. Munroe
Newell Tilton
John F. Harris
George F. Baker
Rogers
FF. Carey
B&b
Alexander
H. S. Redmond
M. R. Badegar
A. S Carhart
W. B. Dinsmore
Adelaide Spofford
Am@rews
Pierre Lorillard
Cial
S. H. P. Pell
Bradish Johnson
Layng Meyer
Holland
Hermut Vogel
Robert M. Thompson
Howard
Henry
Moncure Robinson
Madison Grant
Philip ©. Mills
Bayard Tuckerman
THE JAPANESE AGREEMENT PROMPTS WIDE APPROVAL
A collection of editorials from multiple papers highlights the Japan United States agreement as a stabilizing move that calms fears of trouble, ensures peace if carried out, and strengthens world peace. It is praised as an open door triumph that advances US China trade aims and global diplomacy.
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Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle
United States
Japan
Zoran
Corea
Manchu
Philadelphia Press
Reet
Takahira
Ata
All East Asia
Srom
Boston Advertiser
Pacific
Hobbsons
Tike
The
Philadelphia Ledger
China
United On
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Pace
Utumr Pesorte
Barkhouse
Sané
New York Daily Tribune
Brook Deld
Mass
Francis Joseph
Sirius Barker
Washington Star
Chicago
Daily News
A&a
Mr. Cleveland
Stephen Grover
Philadelphia Record
Walter J. Githens
Chicago Automobile Dealers’ Association
Mr. Gibons
Australia
Philadelphia Inquirer
Hammond
Ind
Eigne
Rusticus
Urban
White House
Marjorie Gould
Bigelow
Edith Brooks
Angstica Brown
Leonie Alexandre
Susanne Henning
Marie Kibreth
Eleanor Hoffman Rodenwald
William MacNeill Rodenwald
West 43d Street
Mra W. My. Hoffman
Janetta Alexander
Misa Stoddard
Vera Onativia
Rosamond Burr
Julia Loomis
Charlies “A. Peabody
Linditon Avenue
Helen Arden Peabody
George L. Peabody
Clarence Clough
East 67Th Street
Beatrix Ruel
Margaret Jenvrin
J. Duncan Emmet
Mildred G Townsend
Mary
Madison Avenue
Rosamund Burr
Ellen Rogers
Evelynn Witherbee
Laura Emmet
Margaret Herris
Grace Fear
Muriel Morris
J. Warry Alexandre Ifr. Maccullough Miller
Stephen van Rensselaer
Hardy Tappin
F. Burral Hoffman, Jr
Rudolph Neeser
Emmet Harris
Snowden A. Fahrestock
Rober le Or
Lavi P. Morton
Ellerstie
Eliphalet Nott Potter
Mra Potter
John Turner Atterbury
H. Fairfield
Sbern
Garrison
Mre Osborn
Josephine Osborn
Mre
Woodbury Kane
Europe
the Diplomatic Corps
IN Washington Society
NEW York Society
Oren Root
East 38Th Street
Maria de Acosta
Ricardo de Acosta
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
James Raynor Harden
West 55Th Street
Dorothy T. Hayden
Tuxe DO
Hobson
Utica
East Asta
Mer.root
Washington Post
Hay
Roe
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