Rose of the Rancho and Vaudeville Lineup at The Great Shows
Amusements listing shows Rose of the Rancho and many vaudeville acts at venues like Loew's and Knickerbocker with times from 2:15 to 8:20 pm. Highlights include The World in Wax, Peter Van, Miss Hook Holland, Polly of the Circus, Rosmersholm, The Merry Widow, and Paris Auto Show. Local opera, theater and concert offerings fill the schedule.
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Rancho
la Ee Jones
Virginia
Bad Boy
Teddy
Sarsegie Halil
Asino
INIA
Miss Hook Holland
John Glayée
Peter van
Sarrick
Central Palace
Hackett
Lippodrome
Madison Square Garden
Paris
Manhattan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House
Alé
Geland Passiacci
National Academy OF Design
New Amsterdam
NEW Circle
New York
Vaudex de
SAVOY
Stuyvesant
Wallace
New York Daily Tribune Header Details 1908
The passage lists the 1908 New York Daily Tribune publication details including owners Trib une Association Ogden Mills president and Nathaniel Suttie secretary treasurer with offices at Tribune Building 153 Nassau Street New York.
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New York Daily Tribune
The
Tribune Association
New York
Tribune
No. 153Assau Street
Ogden Mills
Nathaniel Suttie
Countess of Yarmouth seeks annulment in secret action
Foreign notes report the Countess of Yarmouth formerly Alice Thaw filed for an annulment of her marriage with a secret trial to be held. Other wires note a mass move by Manchester cotton mill owners threatening a lockout if strikers do not yield by January 18. The Mount Royal voyage from Antwerp carrying about four hundred on board remains without Canadian port advisories.
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Countess of
Yarmouth
Alice Thaw
Manchester
Mount Royal
Antwerp
M. Briand
Charles Dilke
Berlin
Foreign Office
Admiralty
United States
Japan
Maximilien Harden
Kuno von Moltke
Foraker
Cincinnati
Republican State Committee
Chicago
Hughes
Albany
Wadsworth
Massachusetts
Haynes
Minneapolis
Johnson
Minnesota
Harrison, N. J
Lena Whitmore
Theodore S. Whitmore
Third Avenue Elevated
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Provident Savings Life
Insurance Department
Garden City
Hempstead
John van Ness Roberts
Riverside Drive
The American Farm Tenancy Trend and Landlordism
A discussion on tenancy in American farms citing Professor Homer Price and Ohio State data. It notes rising rental shares, higher rural landlordism compared with Germany and France, and questions whether tenancy is a transient phase toward ownership. It concludes owners migrate to towns seeking smaller profits and less solitude.
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Popular Science Monthly
Homer
Price
Ohio State University
Germany
France
Limestead
America
Tenancy and the American Farmer’s Shifting Land Use
Detailed studies show tenancy rises with farm prosperity as tenants migrate to town housing. The piece notes wealthier agriculturists shift from homesteads, landlordism risks, and urges longer leases and protective laws to keep tenant farms productive and aligned with European standards in thrift and education.
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Price
Johnson the Mediator and the Democratic Platform Dilemma
Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota draws interest for a possible national role as the Democratic party seeks a unifying platform. Observers discuss his Jeffersonian balance, tariff revision, state and federal rights, and the challenge of reconciling fifty seven factions while the party debates its future direction.
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John A. Johnson
Minnesota
National Democratic Club
New York World
Democratic Party
Watterson
Johnson
Whig
Kilkenny
Mr. Watterson
Colonel Watterson
Bryan
Canada
Mexico
Parker
British Race Wars Within Empire Raise Consolidation Challenge
The article notes rising racial prejudice across the British Empire including Canada and the Transvaal against Hindus and Sikhs, despite allies Japan and Britain. It argues the empire remains heterogeneous with distinct races and explores the difficulty of forging unity while Britain historically promoted equality.
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British Empire
Canada
Japan
Great Britain
Transvaal
India
England
America
Imperial duty and local prejudice in empire and states
The text argues Great Britain upholds equal protection for all subjects, while Canada and the Transvaal are self governing. If colonial regions violate principles, imperial government faces a dilemma similar to a U S state disenfranchising a race, highlighting parallel difficulties between empire and federation.
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Great Britain
Canada
Transvaal
Grave Scandal Underlines Navy of Bank Receiverships
The Brookyn Brookyn report on Republic Savings and Loan Association details a seven and a half year receivership begun in 1990. Assets fell from 1 086 000 to about 30 000 with 70 percent of funds consumed by attorneys clerks and holders of the receivership. Governor Hughes backs appointing the Superintendent of Banks as general official receiver.
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Hughes
Republic Savings and Loan Association
Brooklyn
New York State
Alexander Melkinny
Albany
MciKinny
State Banking Department
Paris duel sparks renewed faith in civilized combat
The piece argues Paris needs a duel to preserve its refined image, praising the ritual while condemning improvised attacks. It contrasts French theatricality with Anglo-Saxon manners, lamenting the breach of fistic combat unities and echoing Voltaire on Shakespeare.
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Paris
Wear
Queensberry
Brother Jean
Cousin Hélie
Brother Boni
Shakespeare
France
Voltaire
Anglo Saxon race debate and Kipling irony
The piece mocks Anglo-Saxon racial superiority and Kipling's irony while defending France against further duels. It argues nature's weapons belong to those "born with the Queensberry rules" and praises artistic restraint in employ of violence.
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Kipling
France
Rent Strikes and Political Jabs in 1907 Era Opinion
A column discusses rent strikes waning as landlords offer minor cuts, wonders about future protests in upscale areas, and questions the mixing of politics with justice in city courts. It also notes immigration trends, peonage debates, cigarette laws in Michigan, heart disease cases, and marriage license demand, closing with a quip on bank receivers.
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McClellan
Health Department
Vienna to Move Heger to Central Cemetery Honor
Following a Vienna city resolution, Ignaz Jacob Heger will be moved from the Catholic cemetery to a grave of honor in the Central Cemetery with perpetual city care. Heger pioneered stenography in Austria and helped spread the system, tutoring figures including Conn, later official parliamentary stenographer.
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Vienna
Ignaz Jacob Heger
Heger
Austria
Gabelsberg
Conn
President presides at Cabinet meeting and White House social
The President today chaired the first Cabinet meeting since spring with full attendance. Taft and Cortelyou attended after absences due to travel and illness. White House callers included Senator Bourne and Representatives Roberts and Hawley. A White House dinner and musical followed, with many guests including Mrs Roosevelt in white brocade and numerous officials and society members attending tea at the legation later.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
Cortelyou
White House
Bourne
Oregon
Roberts
Hawley
S. N. D. North
de Graw
Roosevelt
The Cabinet Guests At White House Breakfast
Washington dispatch notes Edward Wales Root and Oren Root visiting from New York after attending the New Year breakfast at the Secretary of State’s home. Mrs. Bonaparte prepares to return to Baltimore with two guests. Interior Secretary Garfield hosts guests including the British ambassador and Mrs Bryce, and Justice Holmes alongside other officials and guests.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Edward Wales Root
Oren Root
Diplomatic Corps Dinner For German Embassy Staff
Washington January 3 The German Ambassador and Baroness von Sternburg hosted a dinner at the Embassy for Prince zu Lynar third secretary who will soon depart for Rome Also present were numerous embassy staff and attachés from Germany Austria France and Britain with a tea to follow tomorrow afternoon
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Germany
Baroness von Sternburg
Prince Zu Lynar
Rome
Miss Meyer
MacVeagh
Cameron
Mae Williams
de Smirnoff
Lanzham
Mme. de Blanpré
Frau von Livonius
F. Haymette
Moriz von Szent-Ivany
Mr. Kennard
Count Hatzfeldt
C. von Schubert
Lieutenant von Bruning
Miss Calderon
Age of Overfeminization Sparks Iowa Teachers Debate
Des Moines reports G Stanley Hall of Clark University urged Iowa teachers to curb women domination in schools at the state convention. He warned the era is an age of overfeminization with 1400 teachers attending, three fourths of them women, calling for a movement for men's rights and male principals to balance authority.
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Des Moines
Iowa
G. Stanley Hall
Clark University
Iowa State Teachers
Hall
Evolution Theory From Potato Bug Presented
Professor W L Tower of the University of Chicago outlined experiments with the potato bug leptinotarsa at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. After twelve years of study across Mexico and the western states, he argues evolution occurs continuously by direct response to conditions, not solely by mutation or natural selection.
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Chicago
W. L. Tower
University of Chicago
de Vries
Darwin
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Tower
Mexico
Arizona
New Mexico
Miss Elinor Wilson to Marry Edward Cary Williams
The engagement of Miss Elinor Wilson youngest daughter of General James H. Wilson U S A retired to Edward Cary Williams a prominent Boston banker was announced. The wedding date will be set later and the couple will reside in Boston.
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the Tribune
Wilmington
Del
Elinor Wilson
James H. Wilson
Edward Cary Williams
Boston
German Invention: Hot Air Fan Powers Its Own Breeze
A Youth's Companion report describes a fan driven by hot air from a kerosene lamp. The quart-oil lamp heats a glass chimney into a metal chimney that feeds an engine turning the fan. Speed adjusts by flame level. The device weighs about thirty pounds.
Spooners to Close Fifth Avenue Theatre Tonight
Spooner company ends plays at the Fifth Avenue Theatre tonight and Keith and Proctor reopen it next Monday as a first class music hall. Special afternoon performances run all next week headlined by Flo Irwin with The Song Birds travesty as a popular feature.
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Spooner Company
Fifth Avenue Theatre
Keith & Proctor
Flo Irwin
Theatrical News on Ethel Farrymore and Other Stage Plans
Yesterday's news reports Miss Ethel Farrymore’sHudson Theatre engagement extended to February then touring major cities She will end the season in New York and travel to London A week from tomorrow Miss Robson closes Madison Square engagement and opens in Chicago The company travels by special train Katherine Grey appears at Madison Square in The Reckoning Edmund Elton English actor to debut as lieutenant in The Secret Orchard Catherine Countiss headlines Harlem Opera House with Zaza a Hit assisted by Edith Ellis Baker Sidney Franklin Anna Drake and Laura Anderson provide support
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Ethel Farrymore
Hudson Theatre
London
Madison Square
Edmund Elton
Astor Theatre
Catherine Countiss
Harlem Opera House
Letter on mob rule and language in The Transcript
A letter discusses The Transcript using ceh locracy as mob rule and recalls old English lore. It cites a Bowdoin professor testing a farmer and a Cambridge story in which a student mocks Aunt Rebecca’s funding by twisting phrases to argue independence.
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Boston Transcript
Transcript
Cambridge
Rebecca
Washington Society Hosts and Visits at White House
In Washington a society scene unfolds with Mr and Mrs William Boardman hosting a dinner. Christine Roosevelt visits the President with relatives while Mrs William F Draper hosts a luncheon including Mrs John Kean and Meg Kean. Rear Admiral and Mrs Selfridge have moved into a home near Columbia Road.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
William @ Boardman
Christine Roosevelt
Kean
Senator Kean
White House
Ang
Roosevelt
William F. .Draper
Italy
John Kean
Migg Kean
Meg. E. D. White
Nicholas Anderson
Josep Audenreid
Misa Boardman
Henry Cley Perkins
Loring
James Pinchet
Warder
Selfridge
Columbia Road
New York Society Glances at Winter Social Scene
Mrs Alfred M Hoyt hosted a dance at Sherrys for granddaughter Miss Rosing Sherman Hoyt. Guests included Phenix Ingraham and Miss Foyt, with many society figures attending dinners and debuts. Notable names at the Manhattan Opera House for Mary Gardens Louise premiere included Mackay Wadsworth Cowdin Childs and several prominent families.
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Alfred M. Hoyt
Sherry’s
Rosing Sherman Hoyt
Phenix Ingraham
Manhattan Opera House
Mary Garden
Charpentier
Louise
Clarence H. Mackay
Craig Wadsworth
John E. Cowdin
Charles A. Childs
William T. Bull
Clement C. Moore
Charles H. Brown
James B. Haggin
Gladys Rice
Frederick Whitridge
Jammes A. Stillman
Henry Spies Kip
Seymour L. Cromwell
Helem Brice
Kate Brice
Rutherford Stuyvesant
Reginald de Koven
Paul Cravath
Changes in Education Board Amid Retirements and Shifts
President Winthrop announced committee reshuffles on the education board after several retirees. John A. Wilbur is replaced on the building committee by Francis W. Crowninshield who joins the finance committee. Ferris takes over Hamlin on sites and special schools. Bernard Suydam joins elementary and Nautical School executive committees. Aldcroft succeeds Wilbur in District No 1. Cosgrove moves to District No 34. Crowninshield moves to District No 1. Ferris moves to District No 4.
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Winthrop
Board of Education
John A. Wilbur
Francis W. Crowninshield
John A. Ferris
George D. Hamlim
Bernard Suydam
Nautical School
George E. Payne
Richard B. Aldcroft, Jr
Wilbur
Joseph E. Cosgrove
George Hamlin
Crowninshield
Aldcroft
Ferris
District No. 4
Cosgrove
Fewer marriage licenses issued by city clerk amid new law
City Clerk Scully issued 112 marriage licenses yesterday at the City Hall as officials cope with new regulations. The previous record was 156. A caller asked to depose a sick prospective bride at home. Scully said deposition could happen only if the bride could not travel or the marriage would be impossible otherwise. The Mayor promised action to ease the clerks’ workload.
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Scully
City Hall
Eugene V R Thayer Will Filed For Estate In Probate
Eugene V R Thayer of Boston filed his will in Worcester County Probate Court. The estate is valued at 32 000 000 with no public bequests. If brothers fund a Lancaster town hall memorial one fourth of the cost may be paid from the estate. The wishes go to relatives personal friends and servants.
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Worcester
Mass
Eugene V. R. Thayer
Boston
Worcester County
Lancaster
Bryce to Speak at New York Bar Association Meeting
The 31st annual New York Bar Association gathering will occur Friday and Saturday January 24 in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York building at 42 West Street. President Joseph H Choate will open with his annual address Friday afternoon, followed by Ambassador James Bryce speaking at Carnegie Hall on The Methods and Conditions of Legislation. A reception for Mr Bryce and guests will follow at the Bar Association of New York on West 12th Street.
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New York Bar Association
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Westth Street
Joseph H. Choate
James Bryce
Carnegie Hall
Association of the Bar of the City of
New York
Bryce
NYU Chancellor MacCracken goes to Europe on leave
Chancellor MacCracken of New York University announced at chapel that he will be absent until the end of winter as he and Mrs MacCracken travel to Europe. During his absence their son Dr John H MacCrackett, the university syndic, will oversee affairs.
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MacCracken
New York University
Chapel
Europe
John H. MacCrackett
German bishops back pope on modernism encyclical
In Cologne a conference of Catholic bishops issued a letter praising the pope's encyclical against modernism as timely and necessary. The bishops say it exposes modernists' errors, examines their cause, and warns of pernicious effects.
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Berlin
Conference of Catholic Bishops
Cologne
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