Heir of the Baroness and the Coutts fortune in debate
William Burdett Coutts, the late Baroness Burdett Coutts's widower, faces a rival in Francis Money Coutts as heir. Money Coutts seeks estates and titles tied to Latimer and Scales peerages amid family splits and abeyance issues. Ancestral holdings include Coutts Bank on the Strand and Orwell Park, with a web of dukedoms, baronies, and lineage stretching to Latimer and Scales.
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Brentweed Company
William Burdett-Coutts
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Francis Money-Coutts
Stoo@leigh Park
Devonshire
Tiverton
Money-Coutts
Baroneses
Morer-Coutts
Lady Bartlett-Coutts
Irm
Heroness
Francis Morer-Coutts
Coutts
Harriet Duchess of
St. Albans
Tom” Coutts
Angela Burdett
Clara Bur@ette
Scales
Latimer
Baldesmere
John Neville
Money-Co
Latimer and
Francis Moner-Coutts
C Churchill
Italian Marquis Guiccioli Promoted Ambassador to Tokio
The Marquis Alexander Guiccioli has been promoted to Ambassador of Italy at Tokyo. Known to Americans as former Governor of Turin and Florence, he will face delicate duties in Belgrade where relations with Serbian royalty are tense. His Russian Countess wife aided Princess Helen, while his family links touch power and culture across Europe.
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Young de Courcel
London
Boulay de la Meurthe
Louis Philippe
Talleyrand
Drouyn de Lhuys
Paris
Brussels
de Courcel
France
Chaudron
de Courcei
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Alexander Guiccioli
Italy
Tokio
Turin
Florence
Belgrade
Peter
Victor Emmanuel
George
Helen
Helen of
Servia
Europe
Alexander and
Draga
Benckendorf
Orth
Marquis de Boissy
Madane la Marquise de Boissy
Ima Ancierne Mattresse
Lord Byron
Denial for Frohman over first come first served plan
Al Hayman Frohman’s general manager denied a recent claim that the Maude Adams engagement sale at the Empire Theatre failed. He said the sale was the most successful of its kind in New York theatre history, aside from humane acts to spare messenger boys. Seats remained available for every performance.
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Charles Frohman
Maude Adams
Empire Theatre
al Hayman
Frohman
John D. Williams
Williams
Mr. Hayman
Charlies Frohman
The
Empire
New York Theatre
New York
Miss Adams
Liberty Theatre Presents Gillette Play Ticey Benefit
A Liberty Theatre afternoon program featured the William Gillette play Ticey in a benefit performance. The production, while exempt from strict critique as a benefit, showcases Gillette’s established renown as dramatist and actor valued by the public.
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Liberty Theatre
Ticey
William Gillette
Dawn of a Tomorrow staged by Burnett in Norfolk
Eleanor Robson appeared at the Academy of Music in Frances Hodgson Burnett new play The Dawn of a Tomorrow set around a London street warf. Burnett attended with Daniel Frohman George Tyler and other prominent New York figures. Christian Science themes figure large in the drama.
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Tribune Norfotk
Eleanor Robson
Academy of Music
Frances Hodgson Burnett
London
Miss Robson
Burnett
Daniel Frohman
George ©. Tyler
Liebier Company
William Courtleigh
New York
Mrs. Jordan
H. E. Hodgson
Frances and
Lillian Hodgson
Professor John W. White Resigns from Harvard
Cambridge December 18 The resignation of John William White professor of Greek at Harvard University was announced tonight White a 1868 Ohio Wesleyan graduate has been professor at Harvard since 1884 and is noted author of Greek textbooks He resigns to retire due to age
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Cambridge
Mass
Der
John Wiliam White
Harvard University
Wes
White
Ohio Wesleyan University
Harvard
Lotos Club Defence Upheld in Encroachment Case
The Appellate Division upheld the Lotos Club defense against a corporate suit to recover 35,900 dollars in instalment payments for property on Fifth Avenue. The corporation argued the contract failed due to a seven inch encroachment of the club’s stoop, which it claimed invalidated the title.
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Lotos Club
M65
Fifth Avenue
Metropolitan Club and museum events listed today
Metropolis notices show admissions to natural history and zoological gardens. Baren Takaenka and Lotos Club reference events at Fifth Avenue venues. Equa ym meeting at 7 p m and Suffrage League activities noted amid Berkeley Ly entries.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The
of Natural History
American Museum Zoological Gardens
Baren Takaenka
Lotos Club
No. Avenue
Equaym
Fifth Suffrage League
Berkeley Ly
Weather Report Forecast Data From December Storm
Official weather record notes a storm moving into the Atlantic with cleared western regions. Temperatures drop in central valleys and west Gulf, rise toward the Northwest, with snow flurries around the Great Lakes. Atlantic coast temps dip Sunday. winds shift west to southwest. New Jersey and New York see mixed cloud and snow near by. The record compares 1907 1908 with readings ending yesterday and notes several temperature extremes. Local forecast: partly cloudy today and Sunday with west winds turning southwest.
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Wesh Seton
Mississippi
Atlantic
Evea
West Gulf
Great Lakes
Delaware
Hastport
European
Island Banke
New Jersey
New York
Irania
Weather Bureau
Tanner Exhibits Religious Realism At American Art Galleries
Henry O. Tanner, a member of the American artists in Paris, presents a thirty three work show at the American Art Galleries. The essay considers his realism as grounded in life rather than modern dramatic staging, noting strengths in truth and movement, but critiquing weaknesses in tone and stylistic individuality.
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Philadelphia
Henry O. Tanner
Tanner
Paris
Luxembourg
Europe
von Whee
Beraud
von Uwhdle
Tissot
Palestine
Daniel
Lions’ den
Judas
Christ
Mr. Tanner
Rochester Men Gather For Alumni Dinner And Endowment
University of Rochester men in New York Alumni Association held a dinner at the Hotel Astor to celebrate raising 200000 toward a new applied science building with Carnegie providing half. Dr James R Taylor of Vassar protested college presidents collecting money, urging it be done by businessmen.
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University of Rochester
New York Alumni Association
Hotel Astor
Andrew Carnegie
James R. Taylor
Vassar College
Taylor
Colle
Wall Street
William R. Willcox
Henry F. Burton
William Carey Morey
L. Emmet Holt
Howard Bradstreet
Louis Wiley
R. C. E. Brown
Eilon R. Hooker
John S. Wil
John B. Calvert
the Examiner
P. S. Munn
United States Life Insurance Company
Professor Swetland
Peddie Institute
James M. Hunt
George A. Allin
Willis A. Paine
R. B. Hull
Homer C. Bristol
John W. Vrooman
The
Provident Savings Life Insurance Company
Veteran Brooklyn newspaperman Denis J. Sullivan dies at 72
Denis J. Sullivan, a veteran Brooklyn journalist born in Ireland, died at his home on Sterling Place. He worked with Horace Greeley, helped found The New York Republic, and partnered on The Brooklyn Sunday Sun. He later served The Evening Post and The New York Mail and Express. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Vaughan and five children. Funeral at St. Joseph's Church, Brooklyn, with burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Sterling Place
Brooklyn
Ireland
Horace Greeley
The
Tribune
St. Joseph's Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Death of Adolph Levy New York wine merchant in Holyoke
Adolph Levy fifty eight of Fisher and Levy wine merchants New York died in Holyoke today from heart trouble despite two doctors efforts. Family members arrived from New York this afternoon. He was wealthy and had many friends in the Connecticut Valley. Burial will be in New York.
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Tribune
Holyoke
Mass
Adolph Levy
Fisher
Rev Thomas A Wallace Former Newark Diocese Chancellor Dies
Passaic New Jersey December 18 The Rev Thomas A Wallace former chancellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark died this morning at St Marys Hospital after a stroke in February His career included serving as chancellor and secretary to Bishop Wigger and leading the Church of Our Lady of the Valley Orange before resuming chancellorship upon the death of Chancellor George Doane ONeill.
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Ernest George Pretyman
the Admiralty
Chelmsford
Ll. George Pretyman
Lincoln
Winchester
Nova Scotia
Thomas Pretyman
William Pitt
Marmaduke Tomlin
Lincolnshire
Bishop
Sir George Pretyman Tomlin
Captain Pretyman
Tomlin
Pretymen
Henry VIII
Pretyman
Sir Ernest George Pretymen
Orwell Park
Suffolk
Grimsby
Colonel Tomlin
England
Pitt
Keng
Lord Ashbourne
Orwell House
Admiral Vernon
Portobello
Viscount Orwell
Earl of
Passaic
N. J
Thomas A. Wallace
Newark
St. Marys Hospital
Father Wallace
New York City
St. Charles College
Ellicott City
Obituary Notes Mention Several Noted Residents
Mrs Jennie S Myerrs of New York died in Paris and is noted in obituary notes. Leonard Maclehore of East Orange died at home aged sixty three. he led Phenix Engraving in Manhattan for thirty years. Walter J Foster of Queens County died at Elm Street Astoria at sixty eight. longtime lawyer and former Corporation Counsel, partner in Foster and Foster of Nassau Street.
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Leonard Maclehore
East Orange
Phenix Engraving Company
Manhattan
Walter J. Foster
Queens County
Elm Street
Astoria
Foster
Long Island City
Patrick J. Gleason
Gleason
Foster & Foster
Nassau Street
Elmendorf to Speak on Yellowstone at Carnegie Hall Tonight
Dwight L. Elmendorf will deliver a farewell lecture at Carnegie Hall on Yellowstone Park, the Wonderland of the World, before an extended tour abroad. He has visited the park seven times with camera and lantern slides. He will then travel to Egypt for two months, then Greece for a month, and onward to Constantinople.
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Dwight L. Elmendorf
Yellowstone Park
Carnegie Hall
Great National Park
Elmendorf
Egypt
Greece
Constantinople
Memorial to Bishop Potter at Cooper Trien Service
A memorial meeting for Bishop Potter will be held at Cooper Tri en tomorrow evening. Richard Henry Warren directs the Church of the Ascension choir with seventy five voices and an orchestra. Selections include Tannhauser overture Te Deum Warren dubilate Amen Bruch At the Hero's Grave Dvorak Hallelujah Chorus Handel and Beethoven Fifth Symphony last movement.
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Cooper Trien
Potter
Richard Henry Warren
Church of the Ascension
Tannbauser
Warren
Dubilate
Amen
Bruch
Jewish Groups Seek Army Navy Chaplains and Citizenship Class
A Federation of Jewish Organizations conference announced plans to petition Congress for Jewish chaplains in the army and navy. It also established a citizenship class with Secretary Kaminsky volunteering as teacher and agreed to file a complaint against a surrogates clerk for an insulting remark to a Jew.
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The
Federation of Jewish Organizations
Congress
Army
Kaminsky
Prominent Arrivals at Major Hotels Across Cities
The Albemarle hosts Rear Admiral J Barclay, retired. Belmont welcomes Senator C J Hughes and Mrs Fassett. Imperial counts Senator-elect Benninger of Groton and Dr R L Parsons of Philadelphia. Seville lists Dr Joan Aulde of Philadelphia. Waldorf greets John E Du Beis of Penn. Wolcott reports Consul General R J Wynne and Mr and Mrs Bellamy Storer of Cincinnati visiting.
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Albemarle
J. Barclay
Ss. N
Belmont
C. J. Hughes
Lienver
J. Sloat Fassett
Elmira
Benninger
Groton
Savoy
R. L. Parsons
Philadelphia
Seville
Joan Aulde
Waldorf
John E du Beis
du Bole
Penn
Wolcott
R_ J Wynne
Opera Illness Dims Wagner Night At The Met
Mr Schmedes and Burgstaller illness blemished the Gutterdammerung performance at the Metropolitan Opera House under Toscanini. Mme Fremstad and Miss Fornia received praise for Brunnhilde and Gutrune. Boxholders showed apathy a 7 15 opening time. Dr Willner’s Mendelssohn Hall recital drew strong applause despite illness. Paolo Gallico performed Schumann and the Carnegie Hall audience stayed large. Franz Arens conducted with brief remarks as the concert featured Oberon overture and Dvorak From the New World with Kaiser Marsch.
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Schmedes
Metropolitan Opera House
Burgstaller
Toscanini
Brunnhilde
Mme. Fremstad
Miss Fornia
Gutrune
Wagner
Mendelssohn Hall
Ludwig Willner
Erikénig
Schumann
Messrs. Schmedes
Burzstaller
Willner
Opera
Paolo Gallico
People’s Symphony Society
Carnegie Hall
Dvorak
Hammerstein Plans Baltimore Opera Invasion
Hammerstein announces Baltimore engagement with Mme Tetrazzini in Lucia di Lammermoor and La Traviata at the Lyric Theatre on January 4 and 11. Special trains link Baltimore and Washington to carry patrons, with Campanini conducting and a Boston run planned to follow.
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Philadelphia
Manhattan
Hammerstein
Baltimore
New York
Mme. Tetrazzini
Lucia di Lammermoor
Lyric Theatre
Mr. Hammerstein
Washington
T S
Mme Tetrazzini
Boston
Tosca at the Manhattan Opera House with new cast
Tosca returned to the Manhattan Opera House with Constantino as Cavaradossi, Sammareco as Scarpia, and Gianoli Galletti as the Sacristan. Mile Labia sang well in the title role while Campanini conducted. a stage hitch spoiled the end of act one procession.
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Constantino
Sammarco
Renaud
Gianoli-Galletti
Campanini
Dippel Refuses Dinner Honor Amid Opera Row
Andreas Dippel declines a banquet from the Liederkranz Society amid the Metropolitan Opera dispute over leadership. He cites the risk of appearing to back a rebellion and says it would be untoward to meet as planned. The dinner followed a Metropolitan board session that settled headship amid the Dippel and Gatti-Casazza tensions.
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Metropolitan Opera House
Andreas Dippel
Liederkranz Society
Dippel
Gatti-Casazza
St. Regis
Metropolitan Board of Directors
BaldwinDeath Notice in Tribune Republished
Death notices list several individuals including Baldwin Danforth Ban court Hancock Thiele and others. The item notes republishing in the fd-Weekly Tribune with memorial lines and funeral details for several names across December with various residences and service times.
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Tribune
Obituary Notices From Brooklyn 1908
Multiple death notices dated December 1908 for Stobbe Sullivan Taylor Thiele White Winslow and others. Funeral services listed with dates times and locations including residences Johns Lorimer Street Brooklyn Pacific Street near Vanderbilt Ave and the Hotel Martinique. Interments at Lutheran and Blessed Sacrament churches with services scheduled through December 19.
Requiem Mass For Thomas Me Kee Brown At St Marys
Memorial notice for priest Thomas Me Kee Brown with service in memory at Church of St Mary the Virgin on Saturday December 18 at 10 45 am. Public notices list Woodlawn Cemetery access by Harlem trains from Grand Central and Jerome Avenue trains, carriage fare 150, and contact for Book of Views at 4453 Gramercy. Undertaker Frank E Campbell located at 2418 West 234th Street with private and public ambulances listed.
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Brown
Thomas Me
Kee Brown
Harlem
Grand Camtral
Weberer
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
Book of Views
East
New York City
Trade notices in New York Tribunes special notices
Special Notices lists various trades and associations with officers and names across clothing carving jewelry plumbing and more. It includes committees, presidents, treasurers, and contact details for professional groups, plus advertising for employment services and Tribune subscription rates.
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