St John's Chapel Faces Possible Closure in Varick Street
Congregants at St John s Chapel express hope Trinity Corporation may alter plans to close and tear down the church on Varick Street. Vestry members attend services at St John s, while parishioners recount Christmas gifts to Randall s Island and note a carol service ending the day.
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Francis
Ranes
William Jay
Colonel Jay
Tribune
Dr. Manning
St. John's
Gergrmen
St John’s
Randall's Island
John
St John's
Santa Claus
Charles L. Gomph
Th insistent profit view at St John’s church parish
Letter from Junius in New York questions the Christmas Day attendance at old St John’s and contrasts it with Trinity vestry inaction. He argues churches exist to worship God, not to produce profits, noting 33 communicants as a sign of local fruitfulness and urging the Trinity vestry to reconsider.
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Tribune
Old St. John’s
Trinity
Junius
New York
Would Save St. John's Chapel from Destruction
A letter to The Tribune signed Mary E. Lucas urges preserving St. John's Chapel in Varick Street. The writer cites its artistic value and historic tokens, arguing for a link between past and present in a city with little historic continuity.
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the Tribune
St. John’s Chapel
Varick Street
Mary
E. Lucas
NYU Alumni Win Long Fight for Representation
The NYU Alumni Association gains representation in the university council through the new Alumni Electorate. About 15 000 graduates become eligible, divided into four groups with fees and nested seats, allowing up to eight representatives per group, funded by alumni contributions to elections and professorships.
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Alumni Association of
New York University
University Council
University Corporation
Law
Alummni
Jackson's Father Dead Shocks Albany Watch
Deeply troubling health update reports Attorney General William Jackson remains with typhoid fever at Albany Hospital. Mrs Jackson leaves bedside as her father dies in Suffolk County, adding strain to the family during a difficult time.
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Albany
Williem Jackson
Albany Hospital
Old East Side court to move from Clinton Street landmark
The Fifth District Civil Court at Clinton Street is packing records as it moves to 264 Madison Street, ending a historic era in the East Side. The Clinton Street site once housed Fire Engine 41 and served as a courthouse for 47 years with notable presiding judges.
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Elf Sth District Civil Court
Clinton Street
Part V
Municipal Court
Madison Street
Old District Court
Joseph Koch
Charles Lowe
Timothy J. Campbell
John Henry McCarthy
Henry M. Goléfogie
Benjamin Hoffman
Eliot Memorial Fund Dispute Over Subscriptions
In a Boston Dispatch letter to The Tribune of December, T W Higginbon asserts the Eliot fund committees err in claiming subscriptions amount to one third of the desired total. He notes the published figures do not meet the stated goal or provide a "good income" and calls for clarification.
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Tribune
Boston Dispatch
Charles W. Eliot
Red Cross to Sell Stamps Yearly Across the Nation
Washington reports the American National Red Cross plans yearly stamps to raise funds for tuberculosis work. About 5,000,000 stamps were shipped from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore in December. Next year sales aim to expand to all states and territories with yearly new designs and possible state overprints. Congress may be asked for support.
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Washington
Red
Congress
Warrens of Virginia at Academy of Music
The Warrens of Virginia returns to the Academy of Music drawing a large sympathetic audience. Frank Keenan and Charlotte Walker star in this Civil War drama that highlights domestic scenes amid war, with vivid, well-acted scenes and moments of humor and pathos on a grand stage.
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Warrens
Virginia
Academy of Music
Belasco Theatre
Frank Keenan
Charlotte Walker
Academy
Alt Heidelberg at Irving Place Theatre Revival
The Irving Place Theatre stock company revived Meyer-Forster's Alt Heidelberg last night to an appreciative audience. Gebuhr led as Karl Heinrich, Erna Ritter starred as Kathie the barmaid, and Conradi impressed as the downtrodden chamberlain Gutz.
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Irving Place Theatre
Meyer-Forster
Alt Heidelberg
Gebuhr
Karl Heinrich
Erna Ritter
Kathie
Heidelberg
Conradi
Gutz
Hopper to quit musical plays for straight comedy
De Wolf Hopper will end his musical comedy career at season’s end and pursue straight comedy. He has manuscripts under consideration and will reveal the next season’s play during his Majestic engagement in The Pied Piper. Hopper cites fatigue with shows and a return to legitimate stage work.
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The
Shuberts
de Wolf Hopper
Hopper
the Majestic
Mr Crewe Career Produced in New Haven Theatre
Winston Churchill's dramatized book Mr Crewe's Career was staged at the Hyperion Theatre in New Haven. The play follows a young lawyer challenging a wealthy railroad man to influence state politics, with Yale English department members among the audience. William Lewis, Fritz Williams, and Miss Molly Pearson starred.
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New Haven
Winston Churchill
Connecticut
Yale
Willam Lewis
Maurie Adams
Fritz Williams
Molly Pearson
Miss Cheatham Delights Young Audience at Lyceum
Miss Kitty Cheatham gave a charming recital at the Lyceum Theatre yesterday afternoon assisted by Flora McDonald on piano. The program featured works by Arthur Stringer Paul Laurence Dunbar Wilbur Nesbit Archibald Sullivan and Josephine Preston Peabody and was specially arranged for children, pleasing the young audience.
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Kitty Cheatham
Lyceum Theatre
Flora McDonald
Miss Cheatham
Arthur Stringer
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Wilbur Nesbit
Archibald Sullivan
Josephine Preston Peabody
Week of varied theatre listings at major venues
The column previews numerous shows at the Colonial Theatre Alhambra Hammerstein's Victoria and other venues. Acts include Awake at the Switch His Last Performance with Emmet Corrigan and a long list of stars and bands. The New York Poultry Pigeon and Pet Stock Association opens its twentieth annual exhibition at Madison Square Garden with international entries and a notable Atlantic Cat Club display.
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Thomas W. Roae
Colonial Theatre
Emmet Corrigan
Johnny Stanier
Mabel Rueel
Jack McKer Ruth Allen
London
American Music Hall
Alvalo
Othello
Walter le Roy
Mabel McKinley
Cliff Gordon
Hammerstein
Victoria Theatre
Nat M. Wills
Felix and
Barry
Avon
Griff
Alcide Capitaine
Vitagraph
Severin
Julian Mitchell
Richard Carroll
Viola Adams
Circle Theatre
Dick Temple
Isabel D’armond
Manhattan Council
Knights of Columbus
Broadway Theatre
de Soto Council
New York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association
Madison Square Garden
Atlantic Cat Club
Labor as Partner: Carnegie Sees Shared Ownership as Key
In The World's Work excerpts from Andrew Carnegie's Problems of Today he argues labor should become shareholders in business to resolve the labor question. He cites Carnegie Steel, United States Steel, and Boston's Filene stores as examples, calling for wage earners to hold equity and share profits. He urges sober workers to embrace this plan, noting 189 U.S. manufacturers have welfare or worker stock programs and 18 major railroads offer employee pensions.
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Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Carnegie Steel Company
Fmd
United States Steel Corporation
Filene Atorés
Boston
United States
America
Double Bill at Metropolitan Opera Shines for Returning Stars
The Metropolitan Opera House offered Cavalleria Rusticana and Le Vill on a double bill with Destinn Caruso Bonci Amato back on stage after illness. Mascagni and Puccini works drew strong acclaim from audiences and featured Toscanini conducting. Marianne Flahaut set for New York debut next week as Alda performances continue. Thais at the Manhattan Opera House also delighted, with Renaud and Garden praised and Campanini conducting.
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Cavalleria Rusticana
Metropolitan Opera House
Bonci
Amato
Miss Alda
Bond
Caruso
Mascagni
Mme. Destini
Amats
Toscanini
Mme Marianne Flahaut
Grand Opéra
Paris
New York
Audienet
Ammer
Faust
Mmes. Eames
Destiny
Mr. Caruso
Alda
Miss Flahaut
Manhattan Opera House
Tr. Renaud
Athanael
Marry Garden
Sin
Mr. Renaud
Miss (Arden
Destinn to Sing Madama Butterfly in Philadelphia
Miss Emmy Destinn the Bohemian soprano of the Metropolitan Opera makes her American debut in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Academy of Music Philadelphia tonight. She expresses interest in singing the role in New York to compare with Miss Farrar and says she will perform there as soon as permitted.
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Emmy Destinn
Metropolitan Opera Company
America
Academy of Music
Philadelphia
New York
Farrar
Miss Destinn
WEDDINGS PAST AND TO COME
Unexpected orders send First Lieutenant Maurice E. Shearer to Honolulu and advance his marriage to Madeline M. Brows at Annapolis. He will depart for San Francisco soon to join the Honolulu detachment. Agnes Booth betroths Livingston Platt as family Christmas party notes the engagement. Ralph Kinney announces engagement to Grace Averill as he oversees an orange plantation in Porto Rico.
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Annapolis
Maurice E. Shearer
Honolulu
Madeline M. Brows
Stimson J. Brown
Naval Academy
San Francisco
Chicago
Vernon Booth
Agnes
Livingston Platt
Frank H. Platt
New York
Senator Platt
P. A. Valentine
Danforth Lodge
the Tribune
New Haven
Ralph Parsons Kinney
Yale
Grace Averill
Beaumont
Tex
Kinney
Porto Rico
Louis Linder
Prominent Arrivals at the Hotels Belmont
Senator W. M. Crane of Massachusetts. Rev H. A. Poels of Washington. W F Holland. Captain J. B. Robinson. C M Hewitt of Chicago. P F Roebling of Trenton, and W F Dillingham of Honolulu noted among hotel guests at the Belmont.
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Belmont
W. M. Crane
Massachusetts
Hoffman
H. A. Poels
Washington
Holland
W. F. Dillingham
Honolulu
Navarre
J. RB. Robinson
U. Wt Plaza
C. M. Hewitt
Chicago
Waldorf
W. Roebling
Trenton
New C. U. Head Chosen For City Committee
William Jay Schieffelin elected chairman of the Citizens Union city committee at headquarters Fourth avenue and Fifty seventh street. The resignation of R Fulton Cutting acknowledged with praise for public spirit and independence. The group plans to honor Cutting and considers campaign strategy while stressing fiscal restraint and subway funding.
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William Jay Schieffelin
The
Citizens Union
Fourth Avenue
Th Street
R. Fulton Cutting
New York City
Cutting
Schieffelin
Francis C. Huntington
New York
Schieffetin
Board of Estimate
Union
Albany
Obituary of Robert Emmet Fisk Editor of Helena Herald
Robert Emmet Fisk longtime editor of The Helena Herald and confidential friend of President Garfield and James G Blaine died at the Berkeley Home aged seventy one He served in the Civil War as a major He founded The Helena Herald in 1866 and was later postmaster at Helena named by President Harrison and a Republican national committee man.
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Berkeley
Cal
Robert Emmet Fisk
Helena
Mont
Garfield
James G. Blaine
Herald
Harrison
Charles M. Anderson dies at 63 in Greenville Ohio
Dayton Ohio December 28 Charles M Anderson died at his Greenville home after a long illness. A Civil War veteran he elaced to Congress by Democrats in 1834 and later served twenty years as resident manager of the Central Branch Soldiers Home. He was a leading Ohio lawyer until health failed two years ago. He was born January 3 1845 in Juniata County Pennsylvania.
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Dayton
Ohio
Charles M. Anderson
Greenville
Central Branch Soldiers’ Home
Mr. Anderson
Juniata County
Penn
General Robert Reed Hemphill Dies at 69 in Abbeville
Colunbia date line reports General Robert Reed Hemphill editor of The Abbeville Medium, a leading South Carolina newspaper figure, died at his Abbeville home at age sixty nine.
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Columbia, S
Robert Reed Hemphill
Abbeville
South Carolina
William G Hoople Dies. Longtime Leather Dealer in Brooklyn
William G Hoople a longtime leather dealer in the swamp and senior member of Hoepnle Nichols died at his Brooklyn home 44 Brooklyn avenue from acute indigestion. He belonged to the Drug Trade find Hamilton Club Eastern Parkway Golf Club Chamber of Commerce and Union League Club and was a church trustee instrumental in founding St Pauls Chapel. He was born in Ontario Canada sixty seven years ago and leaves a wife no daughters. The funeral will be held at St Pauls Chapel at p m today.
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Wiliam Gordon Hoople
Shellaorm
Hoepnle & Nichols
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Avenue
Mr. Hoopie
Hamilton Club
Eastern Parkway
Chamber of Commerce
Union League Club
Central Congregational Church
St. Paul's
Notable Michigan editor and local figures die in Adrian and New York area
WILLARD STEARNS former Governor candidate and editor of The Adrian Press dies at 73 in Adrian. PROFESSOR AUSTIN SANFORD Albany High School veteran dies at home in Albany from brain hemorrhage aged about 90. WILLIAM BURKE Orange County elder statesman dies in Middletown at 74, uncle to notable Cohalan figures. MISE DEBORAH GARDNER BROWN retired matron of Eastern District Industrial Home, Brooklyn, dies at 74 after service. CORNELIUS CAMERON builder of Brooklyn Academy of Music dies at 88 at his Van Buren Street home leaving a wife and two sons.
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Willard Stearns
Michigan
Adrian Press
Adrian
Austin Sanford
Albany
East Fridgewater
Mass
William Burke
Orange County
Middletown
John Cohaler
New York
Daniel Cohalan
Tammany Hall
Deborah Gardner Brown
Eastern District
Brooklyn
Five Points House of Industry
Manhattan
Cornelius Cameron
Brooklyn Academy of Music
van Buren Street
Old Time Exhorter Dead In Maine Clergy Leader
The Rev. Israel Luce of Old Orchard Maine famed Methodist preacher and Maine Christian Civic League secretary died at 74. Born in Knox Albany County New York he began preaching as a licensed exhorter in Schoharie at seventeen. He was a well known figure in Maine religious circles.
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Tribune
Portland
Israel Luce
Old Orchard
Maine
Maine Christian Civic League
Knox
Albany County
Schoharie
New Mexico Lincoln Memorial Verse to Honor Lincoln
A legacy poem by Edna Dean Proctor extols New Mexico Lincoln lands praising peaks streams and caves as sacred, urging glory to crown Lincoln's name and lift the region’s renown for future ages.
Bryce Addresses Joint AHA and APSA Meeting in Washington
In Washington at the twenty fourth annual joint session of the American Historical Association and American Political Science Association James Bryce British Ambassador and APSA president gave a keynote on The Relations of Political Science to History and to Practice The talk urged careful use of political science to inform policy while noting its inexact nature and limited authority The event, at the New Willard Hotel, included a reception at the British Embassy. Stephen Leacock of McGill spoke on The Limitations of the Federal Government during a broader discussion on federal influence.
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American Historical Association
American Political Science Association
James Bryce
New Willard Hotel
Ambassador Bryce
Bryce
Europe
America
United States
Stephen Leacock
McGill University
Canada
Episcopal Church in United States Faces Clergy Loss
The 1907 figures show a decline in clergy for the Episcopal Church due to many depositions and higher deaths. There were 125 deaths, 41 depositions, and a total communicant count of 183 758 with a 3 percent year gain in total contributions. Several clergy defections to Roman Catholicism occurred, especially in Pennsylvania Wisconsin and New England.
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Boston
Dec
Episcopal Church
United States
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Hlines
New England
Edward Davis
William H. Pearson
N. T. Pratt
Connecticut
Daniel ©. Hinton
St. Ann's Church
Rochester
St. Marys Memorial Church
Pittsburg
What is Going on Today Annus Exhibition at Madison Square Garden
A bustling schedule lists the New York Poultry Exhibition, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association events at Madison Square Garden all day. The day also features literary sessions by the National Society of New England Women, free museum admissions, fraternity gatherings, and multiple dinners at Hotel Astor hosted by groups including the Republican Club and Zeta Beta Tau.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Mpestium
New York Prowning Society
Waldorf-Arreria
National Society of New England
Métropolitan Museum of Art
Areritan Museum of Natural
Zoological Garden
Karra Phi
Hotel Astor
Dioner
Weather Forecast Sees Rain Moving North Across Regions
Weather report notes lingering rains in the west Gulf states with clearing elsewhere, a northward rain shift toward the central valleys and Great Lakes as a Pacific storm moves east. Forecasts call for moderate temperatures, some snow flurries in parts of New England and eastern areas, and variable winds along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Local records show yesterday's high of 40 and low of 32 degrees with temperature changes over the past day.
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O Metal Records
Washington
Dee
West Gulf States
Eaath
Virginia
West Virginia
Rockies
North Pacific Coast
Montana
trans-Rocky Mountain Region
European
Grand Banks
Great Lake Region
Middle Attlantic
Wednester
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Diettet
Columbian
Weather Bureau
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Dace Average for Corresponding Inst Ni renaies
Fragmentary note reports an average value for dace related to a corresponding instrument or variable. No clear entities or outcomes are identifiable. Further readable context is needed for a precise headline and summary.
Funeral of Claus Spreckels in San Francisco
Claus Spreckels is buried after a funeral at the family home in San Francisco. The brief service was led by Rev Julius Puendeling of Mark's Lutheran Church and the body rests in the Spreckels mausoleum at Cypress Lawn Cemetery.
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San Francisco
Claus Spreckels
Death notices published with Christmas 1905 tributes
Death notices list names such as Acker Brewer Culbert Fich er Jacob Meredith Negus Nevins Porter Ray Requa Webb Woodruff and Woodlawn Cemetery in New York with funeral plans and private interment details. The notices reference residences in Brooklyn Newark and New Haven and include service times and dates around December 27 to December 30 1905 1908. Undertaker Frank E Campbell is noted with chapels and ambulances.
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Acker
Sewaren
Eo E Acker, Sr
Mie
Carringee
Leavie
Lnte
New York
Chambers St. Fiie
Brewer
Nicholas Brewer
Funers
Disiste
West Sith St
Sp. m
Culbert
James BH Culbert Feneral
Ryersom
Brooklyn
Ficher
Unday
G. C. Schwab
Azrene Sr
Samuel
Cincinnati
New Haven
Conm
Flowers
Jacob
San Antonio
Tex
Lawrence H
Orlando
Fla
Cornelte W. €. Porter
George Porter
Cornelia Wetmore
Richard H. Chiell
New London
New Londom Jardar
Ray
Edward
Tis Sem
E. ¢ Ray
D. D
Orange
Requa
Mary A
Elijah Lee Requa
Webb
Charles Sherrill Webb
Lee
Walnut St
Newark
N. J
Albert G
Mary Woodrum
Employment Applications Open At Uptown Tribune Office
The New York Tribune invites employers to review the file of selected aspirants for various positions stored at the Uptown Office, No 1364 Broadway between 36th and 27th Streets. Office hours run from 9 am to 6 pm.
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NEW York Tribune
Broadway
27Th Streets
Tribune Subdecription and Mail Rates Listing
The Tribune announces subscription options by mail for domestic and foreign destinations. It details weekly and tri weekly rates, daily and Sunday options, and special post office charges for New York City, Canada, and international destinations. It also lists multiple offices and partner agencies for subscriptions and distribution worldwide.
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Tribune
Scents
United States
Mexico
Manhattan
Ireux
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Tribune Index
New York City
Sunday Tribune
Europe
Siam
Tri-Weselt
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Council of
the University
Jackson
Old East Side Court
Enrico Caruso
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Eliot Memorial Fund
Red Cross Tuberculosis Fund
MR. Hopper
MR. Crewe
Lyceum
Theatrical News
LABOR
Metropolitan
Cavalleria Rusticana’’ and
le Villi
Destinn
C. U
Robert Emmet Pisk
William Gordon Hoople
Old Time Exhorter
New Mexico
Lincoln
Olympian Heights
Thessaly
Miriam
David
Lincoln's
Edna Dean Proctor
the Weather Report
Tri-Weekly
Meredithon
Mary BR. Meredith
William T. Meredith
Waat Sith
Enday
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Nevins
Ratue Te Nevins
Wm V. Nerina
Pulaski St
Woodlawn
Harlem
Grand Catetral
Webster and
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
Undertakers
Frank E. Campbell
Chelsea
Henry E
Negus
Marta E. Nevins
Nicholas
Fortes
Cornelia
James H. Aurelia
Charles
William H. Meredith
Mary Ple
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Frederick NS
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Strand
American Express Company
Hay
Thomas Cook & Son
Crédit Lyonneis
Bureang Des Ecrangers
Continental Hotel
Figaro Otice
Saarbach
Maguay & Co
Milan
Vie le Momforte
Bamburg
American Maprese Company
Dinandastreese
Matence
Daily Time
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Metropole
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Howard
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Midland Hotel
Manchester
Queen's Hotel
Leeds
Bradford
Mote
Wellington
Tunbridge Wells
Midland
Morecambe Bay
Derby
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Shanklin
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Continental
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Tice
Chatham
Athens
Albion
St James Et d
Jana
Baltimore
Hotel Des Univers Tours
Belgium
Germany
Sristo
Central Hotel
Adios
Berlin
Bellevue
Dresden
Four Seasons
Munich
Wartemberger
Nuremberg
Palace
Cannes
Hermitage
Monte Carlo
Saver
San Bem
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