Vaudeville and Musical Evening Listings at Multiple Theaters
Amusements schedule lists performances at Academy of Music and numerous venues including Bijou, Broadway, Hall, and Liberty with acts such as The Girl of the Golden A and Miss Hook of Holland. Notable entries: The Witching Hour, Fifty Miles from Boston, Polly of the Circus, and The Talk of New York. several venues show vaudeville and operatic offerings with varied start times through the evening.
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Academy OF Music
Vaudevilie
Aea
the Warrens
Virginia
Bijou
Barry
Ial
S—Vaudevilie
Miss Hook
Holland
Port Arthur
Hudson—S
New York
SAVOY
Stuivasant
ST. Nicholas Rink
Wallace
Weber
Witow Viata
New York Daily Tribune Details Ownership and Address
The 1908 Friday issue notes The Tribune Association as publisher with Ogden Mills as president and Nathaniel Tuttle as secretary and treasurer. Office and principal business location listed as Tribune Building at 154 Nassau Street, New York.
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Tribune Association
New York
Tribune
Nassau Street
Ogden Mills
Nathaniel Tuttle
Senate approves Yukon expo funds and defense shifts
Senate passed a 790000 appropriation for the Yukon exposition in Seattle in 1999 and placed Major General O O Howard on the retired list as lieutenant general. House debates on Indian funds falter, while foreign and domestic policy actions draw mixed reviews and political maneuvering.
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Congress
Senate
Seattle
O. O. Howard
Cortelyou
Culberson
Hopkins
House
Carlisle
Hampton
Clayton
Alabama
City Finances and the Burden of Rising Debt
The piece criticizes city leaders and financiers for planning to ease finances by borrowing, arguing the budget remains bloated despite supposed rigidity. It questions the approach of increasing borrowing capacity to cover near 50 million in stock and massive already contracted obligations while urging more prudent, realistic public finance actions.
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Wiltaker Wright
Clix
Watering the assessments and borrowing limits debate
The piece argues for raising assessments to actual property value to boost city borrowing by about 200 million and for excluding bonds for self paying city property from the constitutional debt limit, which would add 100 million more borrowing power, while criticizing current economists who have heavily funded city undertakings and expect further large increases.
Did Bryan Lead the Dems in 1904 Parker Campaign
A Tribune note discusses The World's claim that Bryan was the party's actual leader in 1904. It argues The World retracted leadership claims after Parker's nomination and notes Bryan's influence was limited to blocking anti 1896 financial resolutions before Parker emerged as leader. It questions when Bryan ceased to be leader and Parker became the sole leader.
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Judge Parker
Bryan
Tribune
St. Louis
Mr. Bryan
de Vratic
the World
Resolutions Committee
Parker
Evening Post
Democratic Polief
Labor Colonies as Relief for Unemployed and Hobos
The piece argues for state labor colonies to curb unemployment and vagrancy, citing European examples from France Germany and Switzerland. It notes Detroit and other U.S. cities trialed work gardens and potato patches from the 1880s to 1890s, but widespread, serious adoption remained limited and uneven.
Proposed New York State Farm Colony for Indigent Laborers
An editorial endorses a state labor colony idea by Robert W. Hebberd, aiming to reduce idleness among able bodied poor and to supply farm products for pre institutions. It suggests central vagrant colonies joined by small nearby gardens, urging segregation of vagrants from honest workers and noting potential agricultural training and urban-to-rural labor shifts. It argues transportation costs and administrative burdens could be lowered and warns against humiliation of the poor.
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America
New York City
Robert W. Hebberd
Commissioner of Charities
Mr. Hebberd
Buenos Ayres To Host Pan American Congress In 1910
The Bureau of American Republics approved Buenos Ayres as the site for the next Pan American Congress set to begin in May 1910. Argentina marks the centenary of independence with plans for a world’s fair, linking the congress to regional celebrations and potentially signaling future hosts like Chill or Peru or even Panama when the canal opens.
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Bureau of American Republics
Buenos Ayres
United States
Mexico
Brazil
Argentina
Ecuador
Bolivia
Spain
San Martin
Chile
Peru
Colombia
Venezuela
Bolivar
South America
Chill
Atlantic
Caribbean
Panama Canal
Panama
Canal
Watered stock and sanitary packing worming through groceries
A Bureau of Weights and Measures report denounces watered weights in bacon hams and bottled goods. Packers use heavy wrappers to inflate prices while evaporation masks true net weight. Chief Derry urges net weight laws as a safeguard, though critics warn against curbing useful market learning.
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Bureau of Weights and Measures
Bureau
Derry
Kentucky and national reform themes clash in sensational tone
The passage laments stifling liquor laws in Kentucky and mocks armed reform efforts, suggesting public sentiment shifts toward drastic methods. It contrasts 2-cent fare bills in Kansas with railroads and politics, notes New Jersey campaign dynamics, and jests about Napoleonic financial operators as Franco and Morse flee to Madrid and Paris.
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Kansas
Senate
Assembly
Franco
Madrid
Morse
Paris
Admiral Swift's Promotion Noted at Boston Yard
Rear Admiral William Swift, commandant of the Boston naval station, received his commission from captain to his present grade on Sunday, and on Monday the two-starred blue flag was raised at the frigate Wabash. Officials and officers in the yard welcomed the promotion, hoping he serves as commandant until his retirement on March 17, 1910. Swift entered the Naval Academy in 1863 and has had over 38 years of service.
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William Swift
Boston Naval Station
Roosevelt
Charleston
S. C
Pras
Navy Yard
Swift
Naval Academy
February's Five Saturdays Revealed by Calendar Oddity
The Philadelphia Record notes February can host five Saturdays only in leap years on a specific cycle. A bookkeeper explains the rarity, and the piece recalls that 1896 was the last February with five Saturdays, with no such February until 1938 due to a missed leap year in 1900.
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Philadelphia Record
Winter Turtle Hunt Opens in Clinton Iowa
The Des Moines Register reports a new winter industry in Clinton as sloughs freeze. Hunters chop holes in the river ice to catch turtles, both soft and hard shelled, kept alive in barrels and shipped to New York where they fetch high prices in restaurants.
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Clinton
Des Moines Register
New York
Congressional reception at White House praised for democratic tone
Washington February 6 The Congressional reception at the White House drew a large, diverse crowd with many civic leaders from New York and Philadelphia in attendance. President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt hosted with the Vice President and Mrs Fairbanks as Cabinet members joined, while many embassies wore mourning. Notable visitors included Senators Lodge Borah Heyburn Cullom Nelson Stephenson and Jacob Riis along with Alfred Vanderbilt and Grace Jarvis circle.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
White House
Portugal
Baron Rosen
Baron Victor Rosen
University of Russia
New York
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Wilson
Loeb
Hobson
Padgett
Talbot
Lamar
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Andrew Jackson
Hermitage
Senators Lodge
Borah
Heyburn
Cullom
Nelson
Stephenson
Cooper
Keifer
Landis
Jacob Riis
Richmond Hill
N. Y
F. P. Sargent
Immigration
Alfred Vanderbilt
John A. Melhenny
Civil Service
Eeee
Endicott Peabody
Jacob
Saas B Riis
Washington society scenes prompt a packed social week
From The Tribune Bureau Washington February six society pages note Mr and Mrs Douglas Robinson visiting at month end. Rear Admiral and Mrs Cowles plan a Feb twenty six dinner in their honor and others host events. Mrs Garret A Hobart visits while Treasury official and Mrs Beekman Winthrop entertain Mrs John B Wood parent to Mrs Winthrop. Waldorf Astor returns to New York after a Roosevelt dinner. Lars Anderson hosts Mrs Alfred Vanderbilt with a dinner and afternoon reception tomorrow. Tonight hosts include Pierre Lorillard Justice and Mrs Anderson Hennen Jennings Captain and Mrs Summerlin.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Douglas Robinson
Cowles
Garret A. Hobart
Pierre Lorillard
Justice
Anderson
Hennen Jennings
Summerlin
New York Society Weddings and Dance News
Shrove Tuesday is set for Miss Cornelia Harriman to wed Robert J. Gerry at Grace Church with a reception at the Harriman home on Fifth Avenue. The column lists postponed European travel, Club dances, a St. Regis ball, Newport summer plans, and a Broadway theatre party with many society guests and hostesses. A birth announcement for Mrs. Walter Burns’s daughter in London, with ties to the Cavendish and Morgan families, closes the item.
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Corenelia Harriman
Robert J. Gerry
Grace Church
E. H. Harriman
Fifth Avenue
Joseph Stickney
Josephine van Beuren Reynolds
James B. Reynolds
Seth E. Thomas, Jr
St. Mark's Church
Second Avenue
Reynolds
West 14Th Street
and Bissell
Doris Wolcott Bisset
Schuyler Schieffelin
Joan Whitridge
Mary Ostrander
Marjorie Curtis
Ina Kissell
Harriet Gloves
Helen Morgan
Marie Louise de Plove
Gladys Roosevelt
Agnes
Ruth Landen
Mary Mason Hasell
Katharine Fairfax
Edna Biddle
Rosina H
Sophie V. Olyphant
Anna L. Shot
Ruth Davis
Orson S. Munn
George Jone
John Auertach
T. H. Powers Farr, Jr
Roteg le Roy
George B Wagstaf
Philip G. Birckhead
Walter G. Oakman
Theron R. Strong
Edwant Shippen
Howant C. Sherwood
Walter Burns
Grosvenor Street
London
Burns
George Cavendist Bentinck
Maturin Livingston
New York
Walker Burns
J- Pierpont Morgan
Wirz monument inscriptions and Andersonville facts debated
Ex prisoner Warren Lee Goss argues the Wirz monument misstates Union prisoner suffering at Andersonville. He cites Confederate reports criticizing prison conditions, officials, and exchange violations to question the inscription's blame, while asserting broader wartime cruelty facts without sensational detail.
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the Tribune
Wirz
United States
Andersonville
Howell Cobb
Vicksburg
Offcer
Man
Robert Ould
Andersonvilla
Warren Lee Goss Rutherford
N. J
Art Student Seeks Farm Work for Study Time
A New York artist in 1948 writes offering to work on a farm in exchange for a home and modest pay. He seeks a position caring for garden, orchard, or poultry and asks to pursue painting during spare time. He notes farm upbringing and readiness to relocate if needed.
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the Tribune
New York
Army fencing team salute for fair Tribune coverage
Captain Oliver A. Dickinson of the Army Fencing Team at West Point writes to thank the Tribune for accurate reporting of the Manrique Cup fencing contest in Brooklyn last Saturday evening. He praises the paper's fair dealing and requests copies for team members and others.
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Tribune
the Tribune
Brooklyn
Army
Oliver A. Dickinson
U. S . & West Point
City push to curb ugly pulley line poles
W Hendrickson secretary of Ye Village Improvement Society of New York writes from New York dated February six, 1903, urging a city ordinance to limit further erection of disfiguring pulley line poles and massed lines. Civic clubs back the campaign for a more attractive backyard streetscape and higher property values.
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The
Tribune
W. Hendrickson
The Spanish Race and Public Opinion
Walter Pace of Paris letters on Spain defending the nation against decrying critiques. He asserts Spaniards possess notable reserve and will regain prominence despite unfavorable expectations, referencing a prior editorial on the future of the Spanish race dated January 26, 1908.
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the Tribune
Spain
Walter Pace
Paris
France
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New York Daily Tribune
Henry MacLean
Raisuli
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Imperial Treasury of
Germany
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Stoessel
Arlington Confederate Monument Association
Arlington
Temperance
House Committee On Judiciary
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Kentucky
Breathitt
Jackson
Beach Hargis
Armstrong
Senate Finance Committee
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Woodruff
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Hughes
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Kelley
Wright
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Democratic Party
William F. Sheehan
Sheehan
Ths
Republican Party
Nebraska Statesman
New World
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Wolland
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Night Riders
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Portland- Cruce Case
Charles Dickens
Wilkie Collins
Washington Post
the Post
Philadelphia Press
Thavemone
William H. Tolman
American Museum of Safety Devices
Europe
Red Cross Society of
Red Cross Grove
Iowa
Grace Jarvis
Ackert
Miss Finley
Carey Langhorne
Hope Slater
Henry Clews
IN Washington Society
NEW York Society
Anthony J. Drexel
Drexel
Jame Henry Smith
Anita Stewart
Alfred Chapin
Grace Chapin
David P. Morgan
Colony Club
Robert Olyphant
East Sid Street
Sophie Vernom Olyphant
St. Regis
William Greenough
Town
Belmont
Mr. Greenough
Mrs. Whiteney Warren
Newport
J. Borden Harriman
Thomas Hastings
John W. Alexander
Catherine
Chandler
Confederate War Department
John H. Winder
Richmond
J. A. Campbell
Campbell
Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Winder
Mississippi
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