Amusements listing with varied vaudeville acts and theaters
A historical page fragment lists many plays and acts at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the World and His Wife, and the Theatre District including Mischief, The Queen of the Moulin Rouge, The World in Wax, Jack Stinw, and Love Watches among others. It notes showtimes and pricing cues like S, 2S, or S over several theaters including Liberty, Lyric, and Savoy with mentions of the Metropolitan Opera House and Mmel.
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Bammra
Roth
Malia
Carnegie Hall
Jack_Stinw
Gare TV
Gardex
Mary Jane
Garrick
the Patrol
Hackett
Nell Hammerstein
Vanteville
Herald Square
Frederick Knickersocker
Wireless Eyceum
Love
Metropolitan Opera House
Gotterdam
New Aererdam
York
Savoy
Fighting Hope Wallace
Betty Webers
New York Daily Tribune Opens 1908 Office Details
The Tribune Association publishes the New York Daily Tribune on December 10 1908. Ogden Mills serves as president James M Barrett as secretary and treasurer. The Tribune Building at 154 Nassau Street NY hosts offices and principal business.
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The
Tribune Association
New York
Tribune Building
Nassau Street
Ogden Millis
James M. Barrett
Congress Debates Census and Securities Rules
Senate proposals seek government supervision of interstate railroad telegraph and telephone securities while a census bill advances. Taft and Cannon discuss tariff revision. Financial and industrial notes include railroad lobbying, war and treasury reports, and weather forecast for a cool day.
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Congress
Senate
Dolliver
Hale
House
Castro
Santander
Bordeaux
Ively
Hélie de Sagan
George Gould
Haiti
Tacoma
Port-au-Prince
Gonaives
Eucken, Lippman
Rutherford
Cuba
Duchess of Norfolk
Great Britain
Count von Bernstorff
William
Roosevelt
America
Domesth
Taft
Cannon
Ways and Means Committee
National Conservation Commission
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of War
Fairbanks
Ambassador Pryce
Andrew Carnegie
Seth Low
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington
Department of Agriculture
BF. Yoakum
Rock Island and
Frisco Lines
Chicago Chamber of Commerce
J. P. Morgan
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
Harvard
Newport
John Milton
Boston
William Everett
Edwin D. Mead
Percival Lowell
Cambridge
Mass
Mars
Common Council of
Stanford Oil
Barnsdall
Middle West
Trust
Coler
Martin W. Littleton
Southern Society
Jerome
Bingham
International Bankers
Cortelyou
Conservation Outlook Outlined by Roosevelt and Taft
President Roosevelt’s conservation program is praised and Taft outlines a broad plan for inland waterway development. He advocates nationwide cooperation, possible bond funding, and rapid start on engineering projects while ensuring safeguards for honesty and efficiency. Congress could advance forest protection and waterway improvements this winter.
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Roosevelt
Taft
The
Conservation Commission
Congress
Ghico
Inland Waterways Commission
Eral Essei King
Governors Back National Conservation Cooperation Plan
An inventory of the country’s natural wealth will be submitted to him soon, enabling to outline recommendations. In two to three months states can display practical sympathy with the conservation movement started last May. Forty legislatures convene in January and will receive governors’ messages urging cooperation with national charities.
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White House
Atlantic
Pacific
Cortelyou Urges Budget Reform and Central Bank
Secretary Cortelyou calls for budget reform to curb rising government spending and argues for a joint committee to revise allocations. He also backs elastic currency and a central national bank, and suggests an international gold certificate to ease gold movements while pressing for a solid U S currency system.
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Cortelyou
Treasury Department
Congress
Washington
Cortelyon
United States
Hayti in the Depths and Simon's Provisional Rule
A cautious, critical editorial assesses General Simon’s victory and his provisional presidency in Hayti. It warns against expected oppression and potential new revolts, notes long neglect by neighboring powers especially the United States, and urges limited intervention with renewed support for Hayti’s welfare.
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Simon
Haysti
Hayti
Elvic
Black Republic
United States
President Warns Against Revolt and War Material Trade
The president emphasizes steady leadership to curb incitement and the flow of arms to insurgents, warning that treacherous profiteering by some Americans fuels dangerous conflict and undermines national unity. The statement frames vigilance and lawful action as essential to peace.
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The
Republic
New Jersey Automobilists Benefited By Crackdown
The New Jersey Auto and Motor Vehicle Club expelled a long notorious violator, and another killer driver was detected, arrested, and committed without bail for manslaughter. Critics note highway law illiberality, yet these actions boost motorists’ favor, delivering safety benefits to the public.
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Onahether
New Jersey
New Jersey Auto and Motor Vehicle Club
Police statistics show rising arrests and convictions
Police Commissioner General Bingham oversees a marked rise in arrests and convictions in 1908, with total arrests 186,958 and convictions 110,555 for the first three quarters. The share of convictions to arrests climbs from 52 to 59 percent, reflecting increasing police activity and new systematic discipline within the department.
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Bingham
Central’s Electric Traction Earns Praise and Cautions
The New York Central plans to extend electric service from Mount Vernon to White Plains on the Harlem division after two years of use with minimal accidents. The third-rail direct current system eliminates smoke and improves acceleration, though financial constraints limit further expansion. The rail head describes safety, maintenance benefits, and the debate between direct current third rail and alternating current for future trunk lines.
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New York Central
Mount Vernon
White Plains
Harlem
Park Avenue
Central
Hudson River
Critics faulting policy treaty cite Monroe doctrine influence
The text questions who will blame naive observers for imagining buffalo hunting on Broadway now that fishing occurs in Union Square. It notes critics who fault a Far East policy declaration as a treaty and suggests posthumous censure for James Monroe for the entangling alliance of his doctrine.
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Union Square
Broadway
Far East
James Monroe
School Pictures Sherman Photo Spark Controversy
The piece questions whether displaying General Sherman in a public school insults descendants of Confederate soldiers and notes unease over a newspaper caption calling China’s late emperor the “Good Emperor” amid constitutional promises. It also mentions a 30 day jail term and a $250 fine for reckless lawbreaking and joyriding.
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General Sherman
Sherman
China
Public Service Commission seeks less money for 1909
The text notes heated debate over raising penalties to the limit and Chicago’s fear of losing the Bathhouse John ball. It highlights the Public Service Commission asking for a smaller budget for 1909 than 1908, an action likely to anger city officials and intensify existing tensions during the social season by the lake.
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Chicago
John
Public Service Commission
Parsifal coming to Buenos Aires Opera next season
A Herald report from Buenos Aires says Cosima Wagner protests will be ignored and Parsifal will headline next season with Fiorello Giraud as lead tenor after a season in Milan. The piece notes casting, the theater's stance, and echoes other humorous items from the era.
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Cosima Wagner
Buenos Aires Opera House
New York
Fiorello Giraud
la Scala
Milan
The Independents Sixty Years of The Independent Jubilant Issue
The Independent marks its sixtieth anniversary with a lavish jubilee issue featuring founder Henry Chandler Bowen and early owners. William Hayes Ward writes the lead piece on six decades, recounting policy shifts during Beecher and Tilton eras, and the paper’s role in crusades and reform.
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Independent
Henry Chandler Bowen
The
William Hayes Ward
Mr. Bowen
Seth B. Hunt
Theodore McNamee
Jonathan Hunt
Simeon B. Chittenden
Leonard Bacon
Joseph P. Thompson
Richard Salter Storrs
Joshua Leavitt
Henry War Beecher
Theodore Tilton
Edward Eggieston
Wendell Phillip Garrison
Justin McCarthy
Beecher
Ward
Rabbi Hirsch Sees Open Saloon as Safeguard Against Drunkenness
Dr Emil G Hirsch Sinai Temple leader told Ravenswood Woman's Club that open drinking curbs drunkenness by stigma. he cited Germany where families drink together and saes high moral tone. He urged broader Sabbath observance and warned against laws restricting leisure on Sundays as incompatible with American institutions.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Lica
Germany
Emil G. Hirsch
Sinai Temple
Ravenswood Woman's Club
Stations by numbers scheme eyed for PRR cars
A Philadelphia Record item reports a plan presented to General Manager W W Atterbury to replace station names with numbers on indicator boards at each end of a car. Brakemen would trigger the next station number as trains depart, costing about 100000 dollars plus 250 dollars for changing station signs, aimed at simplifying station identification for passengers.
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Philadelphia
Bern
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
President hosts varied visitors in East Room gathering
Washington December 9 the President received delegates from the Ohio Valley Improvement Association and members of the United States Potters Association. A commission to review whisky marking laws was appointed. Kansas City drainage board members sought federal aid for Kaw River projects. The President received J W Osborne with a bear skull, met Andrew Carnegie, and played tennis with the French Ambassador and others. Dozens of officials including Senators and Representatives visited or called, with a lengthy list of attendees.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
East Room
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
United States Potters’ Association
Wilson
Internal Revenue
Capers
F. I. Dunlap
Bureau of Chemistry
Drainage Board
Kansas City
Kan
Kaw
J. W. Osborne
New Light
Andrew Carnegie
Meyer
Beekman Winthrop
Wright
Bacon
Leonard Wood
Graff
Marshall
Ellis
Mouser
Sand Austin
Kronmiller
Smith
Georgia
Kibbey
Arizona
Warner
Michigan
Seth Low
E. H. Butler
Raines
New York
T Fisher
W. H. Walch
Baltimore
P. P Pickett
Tennessee
W. C. Anderson
Colorado School of Mines
Cabinet Dinner Dates In Roosevelts Season
Washington December 9 Secretary Wright and Mrs Wright to entertain the President and Mrs Roosevelt January 12 due to mourning in the Root and Cortelyou households Secretary Wright plans to Memphis for Christmas while the Interior host James Garfield's dinner guests included Vogel the Swiss minister and assorted officials Yale Alumni Association of Washington elects Secretary Newberry as president
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Secretary of War
Wright
Roosevelt
Secretary of State
Mrs. Root
Root
Secretary of the Treasury
Cortelyou
Lee
Newberry
Yale Alumni Association of Washington
Diplomatic Corps Activities Reported in Washington
The Austro Hungarian Ambassador and Baroness Hengelmuller returned to the embassy from New York. The First Spanish Secretary and Mme Pastor hosted a luncheon for the American Minister to Spain and Mrs. Collier, reflecting social diplomacy in Washington.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Hengelmuller
New York
Mme. Pastor
Spain
William M. Collier
Washington society dinner guests honor Taft entourage
President elect Taft and Mrs Taft headlined a Washington dinner hosted by Mrs Richard H Townsend, with counts of ambassadors and lawmakers among the guests. Other events included gatherings hosted by Mrs L Z Letter and officials like Mrs Bacon and Mrs Bonaparte, plus luncheons in Taft’s honor. Mrs James W Pinchot returns to Washington.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
Richard H. Townsend
Mme. Jusserand
Bryce
Countess Moltke
Moody
Hale
Aldrich
Kean
Nicholas Longworth
Bourke Cochran
Augustus P. Gardner
Cowles
McCawley
Laurence Townsend
Bacon
Baroness Hengelmuller
Joseph P. Sanger
Robert Shaw Oliver
Ten Eyck Wendell
New York
Norway
Herbert Peirce
Tiffany Dyer
Edward McCauley
Loring
R. H. Chapman
J. W. Henry
James W. Pinchot
Waah
Kaiser’s Message to President Roosevelt Delivered
Count von Bernstorff newly appointed German ambassador to the United States was received by Emperor William and hosted at luncheon. The Emperor conveyed a private message for President Roosevelt. The ambassador and his wife and daughter will sail for New York aboard the steamship Amerika the day after tomorrow.
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Berlin
Count von Bernstorf
Germany
United States
William
Roosevelt
New York
Amerika
Lord Northcote to Be Entertained by Pilgrims Society
The Governor General of Australia Lord Northcote who helped stage the welcome for the American battleship squadron during its Melbourne visit will be hosted by the Pilgrims Society executive committee and members at a luncheon Friday at 1 pm at the Lawyers Club. He sails for England Saturday morning.
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Lord Northcote
Australia
Melbourne
Pilgrims Society
Lawyers Clab
England
Governor Hughes to Speak at George Washington Univ Convocation
Washington December 9 governor Hughes of New York will deliver the convocation address at George Washington University on Washington's Birthday. The event highlights the university's drive to expand its college of political sciences into a premier government service training school.
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Washington
College of the Political Sciences
George Washington University
Hughes
New York
Rear Admiral Coghlan Buried at Arlington Cemetery
The body of Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, who died Saturday in New Rochelle, N Y, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery after full military ceremonies. He lay in state at St John s Episcopal Church where Rev George W Smith, a former navy chaplain, conducted services. The funeral escort included the Marine Band four marine companies from the Washington Barracks and a company of bluejackets.
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Washington
Dec
Joseph B. Coghlan
New Rochelle
N. Y
Arlington National Cemetery
St. John’s Episcopal Church
George W. Smith
Navy
Marine Band
Washington Barracks
Estate of James E. Martin Settled in Mineola
The United States Trust Company as trustee filed for discharge with Surrogate Jackson and presented final accounting. It allocates 223247.20 to the daughter-in-law and 5850.90 to James E. Martin Jr. The elder Martin was killed in a Great Neck auto crash two years ago, and his son died in Paris last year. The estate, from father and son, passed to the widow and infant.
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Mineola
Long Island
United States Trust Company
James E. Martin
Jackson
Martin
James E Martin
Great Neck
James E., Jr
Paris
California Fruit Shipments Double Eastward In Season
San Francisco reports 12 917 carloads of fruit shipped from California this season, according to Southern Pacific Railroad figures. The volume more than doubles compared with the prior season, signaling a sharp rise in outbound fruit traffic.
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San Francisco
Southern Pacific Railroad
California
Met
Mrs Lewis Case Ledyard Hosts Grand Dance At Sherry’s
A lavish Cotillion at Sherry’s drew about two hundred guests including prominent society figures such as Edmund L Bayles Arthur Scott Burden J Serjeant Cram Austen Gray and many Vanderbilt and Roosevelt family members. The event featured two suites fine decorations pink and white blossoms Louis Seize frames and electric wand lanterns with a second supper. A charity golf sale for the Convalescent Home to Babies at Sea Cliff Long Island was held between events with numerous hostesses listed.
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Lewis Case Ledyard
Sherry
Ana Mies Muriel Morris
Theanes
Louis
Edmund L. Bayles
Arthur Scott Burden
J. Sygeant Cram
Austen Gray
Chester
Griswold
F. Bishop
J. Borden Harriman
Arthur Iselin
Charles de Oelrichs
José Victor Onatting
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
James W Wadsworth
Malcolm D. Wiman
Harry Payne Whitney
J. Norman de R. Whitehouse
Hares Alexander
Janetta Alexander
Mise Zlangs B. Alexander
Helen I. Alexandra
Sphelica Schuyler Brown
Gwendolyn
Mabel Gerry
Marjorie Gould
Miles Donothy Bigelow
Mary
Carol Hemman
Cornelia Landon
Agnes Land
Martha McCook
Katharine McCook
Blanche Oelrichen
Josephine Asborn
Maria de Barri
Vera Onativia
Gladys Roosevelt
Emily Sloane
Bestring
Constance Pratt
Misa Wagparet Rowsvelt
Priscilla Stanton
Ruth V. Twombi
Jean Whitridge
Margaret Winslow
Dorothy Whitney
J. Harry Alexandre, Jr
L & Burden
Warren Burden
Hamilton W. Charles Dana
Robert Walton Goelet
Kington
Jay Gould
Phoenix Ingraham
Frederick Townes Mertin
A. Perry Osborn
Harry Oviricha
Alemander
Dallas Bache Pratt
Moncure
George E. Roosevelt
Willing Spencer
Harord & Vanderbilt
Robert D. van Cortlandt
G Creightes Webb
Worthington Whitehouse
L. Lanier Winelow
Oliver C. Wagstaff
Sea Clift
Long Island
Sherry’s
Louis Lee Stanton
E H Harteman
E. D. Morgan
Charles Steele
Richard Mortimer
Stanley Mortimer
Henry P. Loomis
Charles Pratt
Henry Parish, Jr
Harry Pelham Robbing
Mim
Frederick Edey
Howard C. Dickinson
Charles M. Connfelt
May Bird
Janetts Alexander
Newport Society Notes and Arrivals
Mr and Mrs Sidney Wels and Mr and Mrs Hamilton Fish Webetes traveled to New York for a funeral rotund tonight. George W Collard is visiting for a few days while Louis L Lorillard has returned from New York.
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the Tribune
Newport
Sidney Wels
Hamilton Fish
New York
George W. Collard
Louis L. Lorillard
Comments on the Message From The Syracuse Herald Ind
A collage of editorials from multiple papers praising and critiquing President Roosevelt's message. The selections applaud forest preservation, judiciary independence, and labor rights while warning against excessive state power and political spoils. Reference to Porto Rico, New Zealand and Arizona statehood, and naval reform is noted.
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Syracuse Herald Ind
Theodore Roosevelt
Porto
New Zea
Arizona
Rochester Union and Advertiser
Boston Herald
Navy Department
Congress
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Charles C. Bogardus
Douglas Lake
Mr. Meekton
Washington Star
Maine
Kennebec
Chicago News
Marie Heller
Prussia
Tam
Philadelphia Ledger
the Independent
Rabbi Hirsch
Ington
C. B Woods
Kingsbury, Coon
the Diplomatic Corps
IN Washington Society
Kaiser
President
Emperor
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Senger
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Rear Admiral
Coghlan
NEW York Society
Charles M. Oelrichs
Blanche Oelrichs
No. 9
J. Leen Emmet
Madison Avenue
Percy R. Pyne
Bernardsville
Stephen H Olin
Rhinebeck
Ad Child's Hospital
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J. Francis Aloysius Clark
East 33Th Street
Josephine McCubloch
Utica Observer
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Houston
Washington Post
Hartford Courant
the Navy
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