The World in War and Vaudeville Lineup
Amusements listings show theaters and programs from Astor to Webster with vaudeville acts and musical shows. Notable items include The World in War at Eden Musee, The Four Seasons, Polly of the Circor, The Merry Widow at Amsterdam, and Paris Auto Show at Madison Square Garden with times and venues.
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Rancho
Vauderilie
ASTOR
Tom Jones
Virginia
Brroadwat
Carnegie
Colontal
Nic
Criterion
Hook
Hollars Paly
Glayde
Eden Musee
Garrick
Gotham
Grand Central Palace
Hackett
Navieville
Herald Square
Bening
Hudson
Knick Drbocker
New York
Liberty
Polly of the
Madison Square Garden
Paris
Majestic
Manhattan Opera
Louise
Metropolitan Opera House
Amsterdam
NEW Circle
Stiyvesant
Weber's Music Hall
New York Daily Cribe Publisher and Officials Named
The newspaper is owned and published by The Tribune Association, a New York corporation. Office details include Tribune Building at 154 Nassau Street, New York, with Ogden Mills as president and Nathaniel Tuttle as secretary and treasurer.
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The
Tribune Association
New York Corporation
Tribune
Nassau Street
New York
Ogden Mills
Nathaniel Tuttle
Barrage of World and Domestic News Echoes From Paris to Albany
Foreign turmoil and imperial shifts dominate the morning dispatches with Paris brawl headlines, Bank of England rate cuts, and immigration anxieties in Britain. In Berlin and St Petersburg political crackdowns unfold as Russia probes conspiracies and German officers face scandal. Domestically Roosevelt appoints Pillsbury to the Navigation Bureau, Taft faction primaries loom in Ohio, and notable deaths and court actions fill the city beat as weather hints at cold.
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Boni de Castellane
Jean
Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord
Prince de Sagan
Paris
United States
Germany
Bank of England
England
Berlin
Kuno von Moltke
Popular Socialist Party
St. Petersburg
Robert C. Caldwell
London
Washington
von Goeben
Major von Schoenbeck
Roosevelt
John E. Pillsbury
Bureau of Navigation
Willard H. Browne N
Taft
Ohio Republican State Committee
Nicholas Senn
Chicago
Hughes
Albany
William A. Sutherland
Rochester
Public Service Commission
Chicago Express
Boston & Albany
Westboro
Mass
Wahle
Marquis C. Jasper
Melien
New Haven Road
Westchester
Port Chester
Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company
Lillie L. Cook- Murphy
Fullam
Court of Special Sessions
Chamber of Commerce
Pacific Mail
Republican Club
A. R. Smith
Fetr
Prohibition Campaign Moves North In Corporate Pledge
The Northwestern Railroad Company faces a New Year push as 25 000 employees sign a total abstinence pledge. The plan, sent to the company president, aims to replace drinking workers with abstainers per a winter staffing rule. Proponents praise efficiency and fairness, opposing lawmade bans as cumbersome and uneven.
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Alabama
Georgia
Oklahoma
Northwestern Railroad Company
Northwestern Policies Touching Hiring Practices
The text notes that vegetarian applicants are favored as bookkeepers and that those opposed to the rule may seek employment where drinking is not restricted. It claims many railroads and large industries have adopted similar policies, suggesting greater impact than prohibition laws.
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Northwestern
National Democratic Club Seeks Quiet Campaign to Save Bryanites
The National Democratic Club denounces surrender to manifest destiny and launches seven monthly dinners with sermon-like additions to educate the party. Critics doubt the effort can unify and beatify the Democrats before state conventions convene, arguing time and misjudged planning undermine any hoped revival.
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National Democratic Club
National
Denver
Democratic Party
Lam
Taggart
Bryan
Watterson
Johnson
New York World
Charleston News and Courier
Colonel Watterson
Banking law reform urged to curb loose state regulation
State Superintendent of Banking Mr Williams has drafted a report arguing for stronger powers to regulate banks. He calls for real authority to stop risky practices exposed by the panic, and for boundaries to prevent banks from expanding into savings, trust, or other fields without proper state oversight.
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Williams
Hughes Arel
Discount Bank
Trust Company
Banking regulation should treat all trusts and banks uniformly
The text argues that general banking firms including trust companies and state banks should be regulated as banking under consistent state laws. It criticizes Williams for proposing different reserves for trust companies and state banks and supports Governor Hughes for equal reserve requirements across deposit classes.
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Williams
Hughes
4 Case of Contrariness in Pittsburg Streetcar Fight
A Pittsburgh clash over a pay as you enter system shows residents opposing the change by flooding cars with large bills, blocking traffic and defeating the scheme. The piece argues the public acted self defeat and questions motives, noting the benefit to passengers and conductors.
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Pittsburg
Persia's Victory Over Emperor in Constitutional Clash
The Persian Parliament and people win a dispute with the Emperor as he relents on civil list demands and shifts to private funds. Court factions resent loss of perks and widows of Nasr-ed-Deen press for allowances, but Parliament declines, upholding constitutional authority. The Emperor issues a partial ultimatum to limit Parliament to legislation while he handles executive matters.
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Russia
Nasr-ed-Deen
Parliament
Europe
Persia’s Constitution Solidified as Autocrat Yields
Deputies refuse the emperor’s demand for unchecked power and threaten a march on the palace if force is used. The Persian people rally from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf in support of the constitution. The emperor finally takes an oath to uphold it and accepts parliamentary control, signaling an established constitutional order despite lingering conspiracies.
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Caucasus
Persian Gulf
Russia
Persia
Political Metaphors and Civic Observations Highlight Era Commentary
A column mixes political sympathy with oxymoronic organ transplant imagery for the Democratic party, then shifts to praise for New Jersey Pardons Court action against two Bos c hester murderers. It notes Salvation Army suicide statistics by gender class and comments on Bank of England rates, New Year City Hall antics, and Oklahoma pronunciation debates.
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New Jersey Court of Pardons
Bosschester
Various snippets show global humor and finance lessons
A collage of quoted items narrates a Vienna mayor's blunt stance on teachers pay plus a comic American view of Edison’s fame and a Shanghai note on gold speculation wrecking Chinese merchants. The Washington Star cites Miss Cayenne and an admirer debating genius as a sly aside.
Washington Gossip and Political Appointments News
The Tribune Bureau reports President appoints Captain John E B Pittsbury as chief of the bureau of navigation succeeding Rear Admiral Willard H Brownson. Taft meets the President for two hours to discuss department matters. State Senator Armstrong of Manchester visits about New York politics amid expected silence from Governor Hughes until the convention. Various White House callers and social hosts are listed, including Roosevelt family guests and Yale student C Glover Jr.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
John EB. Pittsbury
Bureau of Navigation
Willard H. Brownson
Taft
William W. Armstrong
Harchester
New York
Hughes
White House
McCreary
Nelson
Metcalf
Bonaparte
Langley
Campbell
Michael J. Cady
Brooklyn
Seth Bullock
South Dakota
Beckman Winthrop
Henry A. €. Taylor
Moody
New England
C. Glover
C. Glover,Jr
Yale
Ethel Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Kermit Roosevelt
Senator Kean
Kean
Christine Roosevelt
Herbert Wadsworth
Diplomatic Corps Dinners Planned in Washington
The Italian ambassador and Baroness Mayor des Planches will host a January 15 dinner for the Austrian ambassador and Baroness Hengelmulier and a January 27 event for the Secretary of State and Mrs Root. Tonight the British ambassador hosted a large embassy dinner with numerous foreign envoys and officials including Baron von Sternburg Esme Howard and Sir Courteney Ilbert.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Mayor Des Planches
Austria-Hungary
Hengelmulier
Root
Great Britain
Mr Bryce
Germany
von Sternburg
Russia
Meyer
Mme. Des Portes
Hale
Brownson
Bishop Satterlee
Henry Cleveland Perkins
William Barrett Ridgely
Tuckerman
Ashton
Bryce
Francis Burton Harrison
Stimson
Boston
Katherine Jennings
Herbert Grant Watson
Courteney Peregrine Ilbert
House of Commons
Esme Howard
Kennard
Washington Society hosts at breakfast for British ambassador guests
In Washington on January 2 Mrs. L. Z. Leiter presided at a breakfast meeting for the American Ambassador to Great Britain. The guest list included high officials such as the Secretary of the Navy and Interior, Rear Admiral Cowles, Generals Crozier and Johnston, and many officers and social figures. Dinner hosts conveyed honors to guests including Lt. and Mrs. Grant 3d and others while noted visitors continued to be entertained.
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Vienna
Luger
Birgermeister
Shanghai
North China Daily News
Tribune Bureau
Washington
L. Z. Leiter
Great Britain
Reid
Lester
the Navy
Metcalf
the Interior
James R. Garfield
Cowles
Cary Langhorne
Marion Oliver
Mary Randolph
Hagner
le Bourgeois
Claggett
Miss Gilmore
Maxwell
Rawcliff
Read
Logan
Fitzhugh Lee
Gilmore
Bonnaffon
Reginald Huidekoper
Summerlin
Henry L. Eno
William Phelps Eno
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
One Who Served On Those Hospital Ships Civil War Note
Letter to the editor recalls how medical officers commanded hospital ships during the Civil War while sailing masters ran the crews. It notes a 1862 peninsular campaign issue when officers left ships unmanned until Colonel Vollum resolved the problem. About ten hospital ships operated in that campaign. New York, Dec. 31, 1907.
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the Tribune
Medical Department of
United States Army
United States Sanitary Commission
Interior Hospital
McClellan
Vollum
Washington
New York
Red Rover Case Raised on Navy Medical Command
Park Benjamin questions Surgeon General Rixey’s claim about naval hospital ship command during the Civil War. He cites the Red Rover, a paddle wheel steamer of 787 tons, as the navy’s only hospital ship with Dr. Ninian Pinkney listed at times, yet official registers show differing medical staff and ranks across 1863 1864 and 1868, challenging Rixey’s assertion and asking for clarification.
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the Tribune
Rixey
U. S
Red Rover
Ninian Pinkney
Pinkney
Navy
W. R. Wells
Charlies King
Park Benjamin
Broadway
Crown Lands in the Congo foundation details
In reply to December 19 commentary on The Congo Treaty the editor explains annexes. The crown lands will remain under Belgian sovereignty after annexation and be administered by six administrators. Funds support palaces museums civil works colonial schooling commerce and maritime development in Belgium and the Congo. Funds have supported these aims and will continue. The Congo Free State must hand over listed securities to the Belgian government.
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the Tribune
Str
Congo
Belgium
Crown
Mercantile Marine
Congo Free State
New York Society Heads to Philadelphia for Assembly Ball
New York society plans heavy representation at Philadelphia’s Assembly ball, a key season event. Elisha Dyer and Miss Laura Swan sail for Europe next week. Swan still recovering from a serious ankle sprain.
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New York
Philadelphia
Elisha Dyer
Laura Swan
Europe
Newport
Miss Swan
King Refutes Congo Profit Claim In Royal Stock Transfer
In a Baltimore dispatch dated January 1 154 Consul General James Gustavus Whiteley states that all free or paid-up shares of stock given for concessions have been placed in the Congo government treasury and will be transferred to the Belgian treasury. The King is thus said to have never profited personally from Congo dealings.
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Congo
James Gustavus Whiteley
Baltimore
Change Cars On Second Empire Limited Trains
A traveler recounts an ordeal aboard the New York Central Second Empire Limited from Grand Central to Rochester with two children. At Albany the conductor ordered the car swapped, forcing the family into a crowded car, then back again, while at Utica the wife made two trips with children and baggage through different cars. The letter is dated January 1, 1908 in New York.
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the Tribune
Buffalo
Rochester
New York Central
Second Empire Limited
Second Empire
Grand Central Station
Albany
Utica
New York
Sun spots and disasters prompt scientific question
A reader from Rutherford New Jersey on December 30 1307 questions whether large sun spots could explain the year’s surge in earthquakes and mine explosions, noting the apparent coincidence and asking scientists to consider the link.
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The
Tribune
Rutherford, N. J
Governor Hughes Message Splendid Foreward Looking Policy
Press comments hail Hughes message as businesslike and forward looking. They praise extending public utilities law to include telephone and telegraph by October 1. World calls for Hughes at Albany for four or six years, urging nomination. Evening Post lauds his clear headed, steadfast vision and continued leadership.
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Springfield Republican
Hughes
The
New York World
Dem
E. Hughes
Albury
New York
New York Evening Post
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