Amusements listing with varied acts and venues
A dense codelike notice lists vaudeville acts and operatic performances across venues such as Manhattan Opera House and Lyceum, including The Rectum, The Devil, A Gentleman from Mississippi, Malia, The Queen of the Moulin Source, The Work in Wax, and The Pied Piper, with multiple show times and theater names.
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Academy
SCO
Mississipp
Vaverille
Malia
Mischief
Erion
Samson
Jack Straw
Mary Jane
Neil Ammerstein
Vanderilleld
Skies—Ballet of
Bircland
Tlady Frederick
Nicks Reocker
Erty
Wireless Lyceum
Love
Manhattan Opera House
Boheme
Metropolitan Opera
Traviata
Amsterdam
York
New York Daily Tribune Staff and Ownership Note
The December 14 1908 issue identifies the New York Daily Tribune as owned and published by The Tribune Association a New York corporation. It lists offices at Tribune Building No 155 Nassau Street New York with Ogden Mills as president and James M Barwell as secretary and treasurer.
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The
Tribune Association
New York
Tribune Building
Nassau Street
Ogden Mills
James M. Barwell
Global and domestic brief highlights from the morning news
The Dutch Gelderland forced the Venezuelan Alix crew to Willemstad with no shots fired. President Castro travels via Cologne to Berlin after Paris talks. Explosion at Bas Obispo cuts leaves many missing. U.S. battleships in Colombo harbor with events planned. Pacific fleet reaches Panama. Turkey rejects Austrian compensation on annexation. Joseph Devlin notes American funds for Nationalists. King Edward to return to London from Brighton. Domestic notes cover agriculture, tuberculosis, an auto crash in Chicago, Night Riders trials, and a rabbi commenting on divorces. Scout cruiser Birmingham tests at Rockland. Farmer dies saving home at Little Falls. Mouser ill on return from Washington. Taft discusses Panama trip and speaks at Metropolitan Temple. Rockefeller lessons and a biblical faction appear in New York. Central Union discusses tuberculosis at museum, Civic Federation delegates arrive. Drydock repair in Brockton yard begins. Williamsburg police arrest prizefighters. Civil War veteran Major King dies. Jersey City house arson confessed. Maine to Havana fleet for Gomez inauguration on January 23. Weather fair. temps 34/27.
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Gelderland
Alix
Puerto Cabello
Willemstad
Castro
Cologne
Berlin
Paris
France
King Edward
London
Brighton
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Manufactures
Chicago
Protx
Reelfoot Lake
Union City
Tenn
Krauskopf
Philadelphia
Birmingham
Rockland
Little Falls
Grant E. Mouser
Marion
Ohio
Washington
Taft
Panama
John J. McCook
Andrew Carnegie
Metropolitan
Bercun
Oklahoma
Theodore X. Barnsdall
Licely
Standard Oil Company
S Securities
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
John D. Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Central Federated Union
American Museum of Natural History
National Civic Federation
Dax
Brocktyn Navy Yard
Poice
Williamsburg
E. R. King
Jersey City
Maine
Hampton Roads
Havana
Gomez
Origin of the cattle plague and its transmission debate
The article discusses foot and mouth disease in Pennsylvania and New York, noting rapid infection cycles and the mystery of transmission. It covers car floors, stock pens, and immigrant clothing as possible sources, cites Secretary Wilson’s plea for funds, and presents Port of New York Health Officer Dr. Dety’s contrary view that clothing is unlikely the cause. It emphasizes the need to identify the true infection route and the role of disinfecting highways and pastures.
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Pennsylvania
New York
Congress
Wilson
Tribune
Yvesterday
Port of New York
Dety
Doty
Prize Offered for Discovery of Cattle Disease Microbe
A broad call urges identification of the bacillus threatening healthy cattle and urges prompt congressional action. The government covers two thirds of losses from culled animals, and a liberal prize is proposed to accelerate quarantine and protection measures.
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Congress
Wilson
Discrimination of Chauffeurs in New Haven Court
In New Haven police court the driver who killed Rev. Dr. Morgan was bound over to Superior Court for trial. Judge Tyner urged chauffeurs to value human life over their machines, criticizing reckless driving and urging safer street use to protect pedestrians. The Tribune endorses the public mood leaning toward holding drivers to higher responsibility.
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New Haven
Dr. Morgan
Superior Court
Tyner
Persome
the Tribune
Waste and Public Buildings in New York City
Controller Metz urged a central architectural bureau to oversee city buildings, arguing monuments by architects drain funds. He contrasted past Horgan & Slattery efforts with a centralized plan and noted the city could fund worthy civic centers by cutting payrolls land purchases and contractor favoritism. He defended grand structures as civic pride and questioned governance without them.
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Metz
Horgan & Slattery
New York
Newark Seaport Rise and Paterson Canal Plans
Newark advances harbor works and gains two major American corporations planning operations there boosting shipping and manufacturing. Paterson eyes a Passaic River canal to the Hudson, raising questions of profitability and sewage disposal, while western suburbs grow in commerce and regulation within the metropolitan area.
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Newark
N. J
New York
America
United States
Paterson
Passaic River
Hudson
Palisades
Passaic
Manhattan Island
New York State
Bronx
Travel lines of great land routes and New York
The passage contrasts land travel lines with New York, noting advantages yet asserting they cannot rival the city. It argues these routes will remain worthy companions to New York, expanding as the metropolis grows and sharing mutual benefits of urban association.
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New York
Metropolitan Association
The Farmer's Prosperity and Stable Farm Sector Then
Secretary Wilson reports farm product values rose sharply from 1900 to 1908 with a 65 percent gain over nine years, despite national crises. Farms show uninterrupted growth in cereal prices and overall stability, indicating a "back to the land" trend and resilience of agriculture.
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Wilson
Telegraphic Speed and the Pollak Virag System
A London Times report notes a proposed system by Pollak and Virag capable of transmitting forty six thousand words per hour on a single line. It describes punched paper feeds, photo graphic writing, and comparisons to Wheatstone and aystelautograph in speed and method.
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Legland
America
Henniker Heaton
London Times
Post Office Department
Heaton
Wheatstone
Pollak
Virag
Marconi
Record Highs In Railway Shares And Cash Demand
Last Thursday the sixty most active railway shares rose to a yearly high of 310412, up 2437 from last year and just 1687 below the all time peak. Analysts note price gains amid alleged market manipulation and expect months of recovery as banks back expanding loans. Call money neared 3 percent, with rates around 2 1/2 percent, while the money market tightens for year end settlements.
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Sterling
Paris
Treasury
Cotten
Census Bureau
Economic Signs Point to Mixed Outlook in International Markets
Global finance shows mixed signals with bank reserves declining and gold flows to Paris. Treasury receipts hold steady while the Philippine bond issue limits cash support. exports and industrial activity face high costs, July drought fears ease with rain, and labour demand remains uncertain amid holiday retail strength.
Curious Germany charity box funds winter relief
The United States Tobacco Journal notes a German charity scheme placing boxes for cigar and cigarette ends in cafés and public buildings to raise money for 1,728 children. The stash’s fate is kept secret. Also mentions a Portland sandwich invention to side-step Sunday tobacco sales and a cigar sandwich trend in New York.
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United States Tobacco Journal
Germany
Portland
Ore
New York City
Gather for Convention At Hotel Astor Today
The National Civic Federation holds its annual meeting at the Hotel Astor with many delegates arriving yesterday for today and tomorrow events. A nine hundred capacity dinner is sold out, business sessions run through Tuesday focusing on wage earners insurance and pensions with notable speakers including Brandeis Frankel and Krupp representatives. Judge and Mrs Taft will attend the dinner tomorrow night where Judge Taft is the principal speaker.
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National Civic Federation
Hotel Astor
Federation
Women's Department
John Mitchell
August Belmont
Melville E Ingalls
Big Four
John Hays Hammond
P. H. Morrissey
American Railroad Employers, Employer and Investors’ Association
Louis B. Schramm
The
Sage Foundation Fund
Louis D. Brandeis
Boston
James O’connell
A. E. Piorkowski
Friedrich Krupp Company
Essen
Germany
Taft
New Yorkers Plan Allison Monuments in Iowa and D.C.
Iowa Society of New York announces two memorials for late Senator William B. Allison. One will be erected in Washington, the other likely in Des Moines. James S. Clarkson, president of the society, informs General Granville M. Dodge. Dodge will chair the fundraising committee aiming to finish within a year.
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Cornell Bluffs
Iowa
William B. Allison
Iowa Society of New York
Washington
Des Moines
Granville M. Dodge
James S. Clarkson
General Dodge
Poe Centennial Observance Scheduled for January 19
Preparations are under way for the Poe centennial marking the 1th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe birth on January 19. The Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences and North Side Board of Trade plan readings, recitations, lectures, and a bronze statue dedication in Poe Park near Fordham College. The event includes a memorial meeting January 28 at the Authors' Club and a library memorial at the U S Military Academy.
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Edgar Allan Poe
North Side Board of Trade
Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences
Poe
Board of Education
Morris High School
Bronx
Poe Park
Fordham College
Ula. m
New York University
Fordham
Aqueduct
Authors’ Club
Pee
Trent
Columbia University
United States Military Academy
Academy
Saint-Gaudens
Whistler
New York Blind Reading System Cut Costs by 40 Percent
William B. Wait of the New York Institute for the Blind and B. B. Huntoon of the American Printing House for the Blind announce a point reading system that embosses on both sides of the page so that two lines of text nest between embossings on the opposite side. This doubles usable surface and is expected to lower book and paper costs for blind readers by about forty percent, enabling wider access to religious instruction and Sunday school lessons for tens of thousands of blind Americans.
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New York
William B. Wait
New York Institute For the Blind
B. B. Huntoon
American Printing House For the
Louisville
United States
Port Society Anniversary Observed at Broadway Tabernacle
The New York Port Society marked its ninetieth anniversary at the Broadway Tabernacle. Founded in 1818 to aid seamen, it runs Mariners' Church at Catherine and Madison and the Charlton and Washington branch. Officers said last year’s work cost 16,175.25 dollars as the society seeks 5,000 more.
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New York
Mrs J Donald Cameron Arrives With Daughter in City
Mrs J Donald Cameron wife of the former Pennsylvania senator arrived yesterday with her daughter Miss Martha Cameron aboard the American liner Philadelphia. They were accompanied by R C Lindsay son of the Earl of Crawford and second secretary of the British Embassy at Paris. The engagement of Miss Cameron and Mr Lindsay has recently been announced.
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J. Donald Cameron
Senator Cameron
Pennsylvania
Martha Cameron
Philadelphia
R. C. Lindsay
Earl of Crawford
Paris
Cameron
Lindsay
Letters to the Editor Congestion at 420 Street
G W Van Nest argues in The Tribune that Forty-second Street is a major city artery and warns against widening Fifth Avenue through 424 Street to ease congestion. He says such measures would privilege statue traffic, worsen pedestrian safety, and fail to curb delays for pedestrians and carriages. He also suggests improvements on Fifth Avenue, Madison and Park avenues, and worries about bridges and sidewalks reducing pedestrian space.
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the Tribune
Forty-second Street
Fifth Avenue
42D Street
Park Avenue
Corso
Rome
Sixth Avenue
Mth Street
New York Central
Sth Street
Madison Avenue
Fifth Avenas
G. W. van Nest
New York
Automobiles and Streetcars Clash With New York Transit
In New York City speeding motorists intrude on curb side space, endangering boarding passengers. The writer notes numerous near misses as two drivers threaten pedestrians and conductors with hostile behavior. He calls for transit company protest to curb the burden on common riders. December 11, 1908.
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the Tribune
New York
Broadway
Gi Street
Gd Street
Press Censorship Appeal Urges Moral News Standards
A New York letter urges editors to curb indecent sensational crime coverage to protect homes and youth. Leaders including bishops Farley Greer and financier Schiff back a movement to unite readers and advertisers for cleaner press content, asking editorial support and subscriber mailings.
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The
Tribune
Cream Press
Arete
Bishop Farley
Bishop Greer
Robert W. de Forest
Thomas M. Mulry
Jacob H. Schiff
Stephen Fare Relly
Paulist Fathers
Felix M Warburs
Murray Street
Murnay Williams
Edward R. Finch
Charles F. Mkenn
New York
Queenstow Bridge Opening Question Raised
A New York letter from December 12, 1908 asks if the excess weight on the Queenstown river spans will be removed before the bridge opens to the public. The writer notes daily observations show no change and believes the bridge may open in a few weeks, urging the Bridge Commissioner for clarity.
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the Tribune
Queenstow
Vigilan
New York
King Edward’s health improves during Brighton stay
Brighton story reports King Edward regaining health after several days in Brighton United. he will return to London tomorrow to resume social duties. The report notes he was not well upon arrival but now appears fully recovered. Governor Hughes returns to Albany after a night in New York with no word on his wife.
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Brighton
Edward
London
Hughes
Albany
Governor Hughes
New York
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