Charity and high society unions in European history
The article considers marriages between actresses and the wealthy or titled in Europe, noting bequests to Cambridge and other charitable acts. It recounts Lady Pearce in Cambridge, past stage stars like Carrie Coote, and similar patrons Mrs Lyne Stephens and Harriet Mellion. It also covers Clemenceau’s stance on royal pretenders and Queen Victoria’s health rumors, plus Swedish royal fortunes and legends of Bernadotte treasure.
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Brentwood Company
Europe
Lady Pearce
Trinity
University of Cambridge
Carrie Coote
Irene
Clitto
Wilson Barrett
London
Eva
America
Wallack’s
New York
William Pearce
Fairfeild Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
William
Cambridge
Lyne Stephens
Lynford Hall
Norfolkshire
Louise Duvernay
Taglion
Princess Windischgraetz
Louis Philippe
Drury Lane
Stephens Lyne Stephene
Norfolk
Tom” Courts
Harriet Melton
Angela Burdett
Harriet Mellion
Tom” Couttses
Duchess of
St. Albans
Lady Burdett-Coutts
Today’s events include free museum admissions and club dinners
A heavy schedule of programs and gatherings across New York features free admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, and the Zoological Gardens. Meetings and dinners abound at Delmonico’s, Waldorf Astoria, and the Manhattan Hotel, with lectures at Cooper Institute and Public Schools.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Musum of Natural History
Zoological Gardens
American ‘Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers
West
H Street
Board of Education
Park Avenue
Th Street
Seager
Columbia University
the Jewellers
Delmonico's
Greenwich House
Miss Carroll
Fifth Avenue
League For Home
Ercenomics
F. H. Lane
Gotham Club
Waldorf-Astoria
108Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Lawrence Veiller
Fifth
Madison Avenues
Izabeth J. Eaton
Persia
145Th Street
Amsterdam
John ©. Bowker
Spain
Cooper Institute
Sth Street
Fourth Avenue
Daniel ‘Gregory Mason
East 10Th Street
Mary V. Worstell
St. Bartholomew's Lyceum Hall
East 42d Street
Mari Ruef Hofer
Scandinavia
Young Men's Christian Association
West 125Th Street
W. L. Estabrooke
Colored Branch
53D
Josephine Dayeye
Young Men's Hebrew Association
Lexington Avenue
Merie St. Croix Wright
Robert Louis Stevenson
Young Men's Institute
Bowery
I. Rogers Mount
Southern California
146Th
Willis Avenue
Francis J. ©. Moran
Triof
Weather Forecast and Local Conditions Report
The national weather picture shows warm to the east and south with high temperatures and cloudier eastern areas. Northern regions cool and unsettled with light showers in Western New England and the lower lakes, while the West remains mostly clear though cooler in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Local forecasts call for variable conditions with showers in the New York and New England areas, fair and colder later in the week, and brisk winds from the southwest to west. Local records compare temperatures with last year and thirty years ago.
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Washington
Ontario
New England
Lower Lake
Upper Lake
Ohio
Mississippi
California
Middle Plateau
Minnesota
Dakotas
Wyoming
Canada
Atlantic
East Gulf States
Lower Lake Region
Upper Lakes
European
Grand Banke
District of Columbia
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
Stedman Memorial Service Held At Church Of The Messiah
Mourners filled the Church of the Messiah on 34th Street and Park Avenue as Edmund Clarence Stedman’s life was honored in a funeral service led by Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer and Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke. The service featured readings, tunes, and heartfelt tributes to the poet’s work and character, with wreaths from Yale and national arts groups and a large presence of Stedman’s friends, associates, and family. The burial is scheduled for Woodlawn Cemetery with the family plot to receive the poet and his wife and son.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
Henry van Dyke
Frank E. Kavanagh
Mr. Stedman
Dudley Buck
Collyer
van Dyke
Dr. Collyer
Jesus Christ
Whitelaw Reid
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Stedman
American Copyright League
Authors Club
Century Association
Rome
Psi Upsilon Fraternity
Yale
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Boston
Whittier Home Association
Mabel Osgood Wright
Richard Watson Gilder
Robert Underwood Johnson
Cyrus L. Baker
The
Century Company
James E. Fuller
O. H. Gruner
Gertrude H. Stedman
Robert Livingston Stedman
Thomas H. Hubbard
William C. Church
Arthur Stedman
Douglas Stedman
Laura Stedman
Nelson S. Easton
Mary Easton
William Burnet Easton
Laird Easton
Clement Easton
Dr. van Dyke
Bronson Howard
Hamilton W. Mabie
John Bigelow
J. Q. A. Ward
William H. Thompson
James M. Whiton
Sherman W. Knevals
Theodore Weston
A. B. Woodward
F. A. Catlin
Joseph M. Ives
New England Society
Stock Exchange
J. I. C. Clarke
Frank H. Dodd
Henry Gallup Paine
Joseph P. Ely
Mrs. Custer
Davis Barnes
J. Rhinelander Dillon
Lloyd Farragut
C. H. Allen
Frank H. Scott
Evert Jansen Wendell
Charles Battell Loomis
Charles Jansen
Milton Nobles
Charles Genung
James Carbatt
Arthur Lumley
Howard
W. Montague Geer
Frank Fowler
E.S. Nadal
Frederick Diehlman
Montgomery Schuyler
Walter Damrosch
Horace White
John P. Peters
Daniel M. Stimson
James Grant Wilson
Franklin H. Giddings
Kinahan Cornwallis
David Banks Sickles
B. B. Valentine
Ushera
Doubts Cast On Copley Portrait Of William Pitt
Charles Henry Hart of Philadelphia doubts the so called Copley portrait is Pitt the first Earl of Chatham. Hart argues the likeness diverges from Westminster Abbey’s effigy and Copley’s Death of Chatham and suggests Pitt would have been older than depicted. General Hawkins sponsored the painting for about $10,000 for a memorial museum in Providence.
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Tribune
Providence
Charles Henry Hart
Philadelphia
Rush C. Hawkins
New York
Copley
William Pitt
Earl of
Chatham
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery
London
Indians Invade Legislature Over Peyote Bill Fire and War Paint
About one hundred Indians led by Comanche chief Quenah Parker and Osage Black Dog besieged the Oklahoma Assembly in Guthrie to protest a bill prohibiting peyote and mescal use. Speeches were made in the Senate, threats muttered amid uproar, and protests cited religious rights and medicinal values of the peyote and mescal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Guthrie
Okla
Quenah Parker
Black Dog
Senate
Parker
Conried Plans Three Week Spring Opera Tour
Heinrich Conried has outlined a three week spring tour for the Conried Metropolitan Opera Company with engagements in Boston Baltimore Washington Chicago and Pittsburg. The Met season ends April 4 and the Boston Theatre hosts a week starting April 6. Baltimore Lyric Theatre hosts April 13 14 and 15 followed by Washington New National Theatre April 16 and 18. Chicago Auditorium Theatre hosts the week of April 20 and Pittsburg Nixon Theatre hosts April 27 28 and 29. Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen will be staged at the Metropolitan Opera House the week of April 13.
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Heinrich Conried
Conried Metropolitan Opera Company
Boston
Washington
Baltimore
Chicago
Pittsburg
Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera Company
Boston Theatre
Lyric Theatre
New National Theatre
Auditorium Theatre
Nixon Theatre
Conried
Metropolitan Opera Week Repertoire Includes Tannhauser
The eleventh week program lists Wagner’s Tannhauser with Knote in the title role as his season finale, joined by Gadski Elizabeth Fremstad Venus Gortz Wolfram Blass Landgraf and Hertz conducting Don Giovanni Manon Lescaut Faust sung by Emma Hames Marguerite Plancon Mephistopheles Caruso sings the title role with Stracclart as Valentin.
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Metropolitan Opera House
Tannhouser
Wagner
Mr. Knote
Mme. Gadski
Elizabeth
Mme. Fremstad
Venus
Mr. Gorttz
Wolfram
Mr. Blass
the Landgraf
Mr. Hertz
Fired First Shot at Shiloh Soldier Dies at 72
Napoleon Rouleau, the Confederate soldier credited with firing the first shot at Shiloh, died in Paducah Kentucky at age 72. A member of Cobb's Battery, he earned special mention for courage at Shiloh and was wounded multiple times yet served until Johnson's surrender in South Carolina in 1865.
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Tribune
Paducah
Napoleon Rouleau
Battle of
Shiloh
Cobb
Johnson
South Carolina
Red Flag And Red Blood Letter To The Editor
In a January 18 Tribune letter German born American from Bloomfield New Jersey denounces the red flag as a symbol of wage slavery and rebukes Rose Pastor Stokes for praising it He says he works over fifty years and refuses to sign with his name fearing harm to his blood and insists the ballot will suffice without such rebellion.
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the Tribune
Tribune
Rose Pastor Stokes
Ted
Bloomfield, N. J
Lincoln and Stokes on liberty and capital in 1908 letter
Alden Freeman of East Orange New Jersey writes to The Tribune praising Mrs Stokes for promoting brotherhood and urges readers to study Lincoln s 1861 speeches and first annual message warning of capital versus labor as dangerous and revolutionary in a public debate on democracy and equality.
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Lincoln
Mrs. Stokes
Congress
Twenty Days in the Shade at Savoy Theatre
A French farce at the Savoy titled Twenty Days in the Shade drew a large audience. Cast highlights included Richard Bennett as Count de Merville and Dallas Welford as Shorty, with Pauline Frederick, Charles Dickson, Ernest Lawford, Frank Burbeck, and Jeffreys Lewis in supporting roles. The play humorously traces the count’s attempts to hide an indiscretion from his wife amid a lively, if faulted, marriage satire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savoy Theatre
Count de Merville
Mme
Valentine Meran
Comte de Merville
Richard Bennett
Henri Comte de Merville
Dallas Welford
Shorty
Bennett
Mr. Welford
Hopkinson
Pauline Frederick
Colette de Merville
Charles Dickson
Patruche
Ernest Lawford
Chantanelle
Frank Burbeck
Jeffreys Lewis
Lonesome Town Impresses At New Circle Theatre
The musical farce Lonesome Town opened Monday night at the New Circle Theatre to a large audience. Standout moment was Kolb and Dill’s German tramp act, aided by Miss Maude Lambert, with pretty chorus girls and new songs. Big Chief Smoke drew special applause.
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Lonesome Town
New Circle
Kolb and
Dill
Big Chief
Miss Maude Lambert
Messrs
Colonial Theatre Show Delights Audiences This Week
At the Colonial Theatre Mr. Williams presents Vesta Victoria and Eva Tanguay in a strong bill. Victoria sings popular songs while Tanguay entertains with humor. Extra feature Albert Whelan from Australia joins the program along with Clayton White and Marie Stuart in a comic sketch Cherie. The Dainty Dancers Ellis Nowlin and Valoni perform in the Dill.
Fifth Avenue Theatre Becomes Noted Music Hall
The Fifth Avenue Theatre has shifted into a high quality music hall enjoying public approval. Vaudeville has ended at the New York Theatre, boosting its success. Two performances daily feature ten acts this week led by Clifton Crawford, Belle Blanche, the Dillon Brothers, Frederick Bond and company. An extra attraction is the rolling skit Night on a Houseboat with fifteen performers, and The Star Bout continues as a pugilistic novelty in the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Theatre
Clifton Crawford
Belle Blanche
Dillon Brothers
Frederick Bond
Victoria Theatre Hosts May Irwin in Final Vaudeville Run
May Irwin began a week at the Victoria Theatre on Monday to an enthusiastic crowd. The veteran performer tours music halls in what is billed as her final vaudeville appearance, offering new songs and stories with Mile Etoile’s horse show and Grace Hazard’s five feet of comic opera. The bill also features Stuart Barnes in a new monologue and acts by the Waterbury Brothers and Tenny, Caron and Herbert, with Renier and Gaudier.
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May Irwin
Miss Irwin
Grace Hazard
Stuart Barnes
Waterbury Brothers
Tenny
Caron
Herbert
Renier
Gaudier
Spooner Company Opens The Heart of Maryland at Lincoln Square
The Spooner stock company presented David Belasco's drama The Heart of Maryland at Lincoln Square Theatre with Miss Edna May Spooner as Mary land Calvert. The company, after a successful run at Keith Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre, will remain at Lincoln Square indefinitely.
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David Belasco
Heart of Maryland
Spooner
Lincoln Square Theatre
Edna May Spooner
Maryland Calvert
Keith & Proctor
Fifth Avenue Theatre
Variety Theatres Feature Week At Alhambra and Nearby Venues
Horace Goldin headlines the Alhambra for the week with Mag Haggerty's Father and a bill including Whit Cunliffe Joe Welch Maidie Scott Peter Donald and Nettie Carson and the Binns Also Dewey Theatre presents Miss New York Jr with two daily shows J K Watson leads at Gotham M M Theise's Rollickers Tony Pastor's Theatre offers The Girl in the Red Kimono with Gertrude Mansfield and others Powell-Cottreill at Union Theatre Ruth Allen De Haven Sextet Barry Hughes Rice Cady at Keith Proctor's One Hundred Twenty Fifth Street Theatre Paradise Alley at Fifty eighth Street with Mayme Gehrge Dave Lewis Callahan St George Eden Musée shows a wax Thaw trial exhibit Open daily 1 to 10 30 PM.
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Horace Goldin
Alhambra
Thomas J. Ryan
Mary Richfield
Mag Haggerty
Whit Cunliffe
Joe Welch
Maidie Scott
Peter Donald
Nettie Carson
the Binns
Dewey Theatre
New York
Robert Dalley
Paradise Alley
Fifty Eighth Street Theatre
Mayme Gehrge
Dave Lewis
Callahan
St. George
Eden Musée
Prominent Arrivals at Notable Hotels
Prominent arrivals listed for hotels including Belmont-Hinsdale Parsons Schenectady Gotham Lorillard Spencer Newport Hol land A R Hillyer Hartford Manhattan C A Bristed Lenox Mass St Reg is C L Post New Orleans Waldorf Astoria L L Lorillard Tuxedo Park.
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Belmont
Hinsdale Parsons
Schenectady
Gotham
Lorillard Spencer
Newport
Holland
A. R. Hillyer
Hartford
Manhattan
C. A. Bristed
Lenox
Mass
ST. Regis
C. L. Post
New Orleans
Waldorf-Astoria
L. L. Lorillard
Tuxedo Park
Transatlantic Travellers Sail Today for Europe
Passengers listed for European sailings include Majestic bound for Southampton with Mr and Mrs James He Howe and Mrs R Waynekar and John C Calhoun F N Sewall. Ryndam bound for Rotterdam with Miss Elizabeth Beckwith Mr and Mrs J Smit and W C Hawley.
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Majestic
Southampton
James He Howe
Drews
R. Waynekar
John C. Calhoun
F. N. Sewall
Ryndam
Rotterdam
Elizabeth Beckwith
J. Smit
W. C. Hawley
Eliza A Banta Died in 1908 at Mamaroneck New Jersey
Eliza A Banta widow of Methias Banta died around January 21 1908. Funeral services to be held at her residence 10 Beach Ave Mamaroneck New Jersey on Friday January 24 at 3 pm. Carriages will meet the train departing Grand Central Station at 2 15 pm. Interment will follow at Hackensack New Jersey on Saturday.
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Bartholomew
James H Bartholomew
Glenwood Ave
East Orange
N. J
Brick Church
New York
Delaware
Lackawanne & Western Railroad
Edward Eagen
Annie Wrynn
Third Ave
Brooklyn
Church of Our Lady of Angels
Fourth Ave
74Th St
Kinkead
Joseph
D. m
Aster G. Morris
Canarsie Yacht Club
Sand Bay
Canarsie
Evergreens
Ordronaux
John Ordronaux
M D
Neil
Fea
Sons OF the Revolution
Fraunces Tavern
Cor Breed and Pearlets
Dudley Hunt Walbridge
St. Paul's Church
Washington Ave
Funeral notices from New Jersey and New York area
A fragmented obituary page lists funeral details for many individuals including James H Bartholomew, Agnes Sage Brittan, Dr Frederick A Burrall, Thomas D Corcoran, Mary Read Haddock Cotton, William R Cummings, Vespesian Danforth, Edward Eagen, Walter Giddings, Charlies T Glenn, Thomas Greenleaf, Joseph Gregson, Frederick C Hughes, Joseph Kinkead, Joseph Ordronaux, Rachel Williams Pierson, Auguste Richard, Seebet Morrison Russell, Jennie Swift, Daniel Offey Tatum, and Dudley Hunt Walbridge among others with service times, residence addresses, and train arrival notes. The list references New Jersey towns like Glenwood Ave East Orange Hackensack Elizabeth Plainfield and Montclair and trains from New York Lackawanna and Erie railroads, plus church and cemetery details.
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Richard
Big Reedence
East 48Th St
Auguste Richard
Margaret H Richard
Ae. Russell
Montclair
N. J
Seebet Morrison
Thomas Russell
Church St
Montclai
Adelphi St
Brooklyn
Woodlawn Cemetery access by Harlem trains and trolleys
The Woodlawn Cemetery is readily accessible by Harlem trains from Grand Central Station. Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys, and by carriage. Lots priced from $150. Telephone 4855 Gramercy for Book of Views or a representative. Office located at 20 East 23rd Street, New York City.
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Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
East 23A St
New York City
Frank F Campbell Co. Ambulance Ad at Chelsea
Public and private ambulances offered by Frank F Campbell Co located at 741 4 West 234 Street Chelsea. Contact Rev Stephen Merritt renowned undertaker with offices on St Ave and 19th Street. Largest in the world with telephone numbers 132 Chelsea and 124 125 Chelsea.
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Frank F. Campbell CO
Chelsea
Stephen Merritt
St. Ave
19Th St
Tel
Help Wanted Notice At Uptown Tribune Office
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THE
NEW York Tribune
Tribune Subscription Rates and Foreign Mail Options
Subscriptions available by mail or at the Tribune Office with various domestic and foreign rates. Lists for daily, tri weekly, weekly farmer, Sunday only, and Tribune Almanac with prices per month, quarter, and year. Multiple offices listed for subscriptions and advertisements in New York and international locations.
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Tribune
United States
Metico
Manhattan
Bronx
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philigominesithout
Tri-Weef&alys
Tribune Almanac
Percy
Eal Mail
New York City
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Clemenceau
France
Victor Bonaparte
Duke of Orleans
Republic
Brittany
Prince Victor Bonaparte
Clemencesu
Whotes
Victor
Duke of Orkives
Prince Victor Bonnaparte
Victor Bona- Pare
Victoria
Sweden
Carlsruhe
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Ieee Tine
Mundte
Stockholm
Mandéte
Ahy
Bernadotte
Gustaf
Eugene
Charlies
Prince Oscar Bernadotte
Ebba Munk
Duke of
Nassau
Wiesbaden
Francois Lane
Monte Carlo
Charles XIV
Magnus Brahe
Royal
Charles
Oscar I
Charles XV
Louise
Denmark
Oscar
Marquise DE Fontenoy
the Weather Report
Weather Bureau
P. W
Mr.stedman
Church of the Messiah
Asphodel
Providence Memorial Museum
Oklahoma
the Metropolitan
Alden Freeman
East Orange, N. J
Savoy
NEW Circle Theatre
Colonial Theatre
Victoria Theatre
Spooner Company
Lincoln Square
Tri-Weekly
Morning Star Council
R. of
McPherson-Deane Post
G. A
Maffing
Reid Putnam
Sp m. Cotton
St. Augustine
Fla
Mary Read Haddock Cotton
Gilbert P. Cotton
Giddings
Walter
North Ave
New Rochelle
Glenn
Charlies T. Glenn
Salem Ave
Evergrees Cemetery
Greenleaf
Plainfield
Thomas Greenleaf
Gregson
Joseph Gregson
Zidert St
Pierson
Atlantic City
Rachel Williams Pierson
Geneva
Jon Pierson
D. D
Troy
Rochester
Walbridge
Woodlawn
Undertakers
Broadway
3Th Streets
Tosénan
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Wall Street
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Uptown
LEM
East 125Th Street
Wear 125Th Street
F Street
Newark
Frederick N. Sommer
Broad Street
Brussels
Montague de la Cour
Danes Inn House
Strand
Gould & Portmans
New Oxford Street
American Express Company
Haymarket
Thomas Cook & Son Tourist Ofice
Circus
Crows, Shipley & Co
Pall Speyer Brothers
Lothbury
Paris
John Monrose & Co
Rue
Scribe
John Wanamaker
Eagle Bureau
Morgan, Harjes & Co
Boulevard Haussmann
Crédit Lyonnais
Bureau Des Etrangers
Continental Hotel
Saarbach’s News Exchange
Rue &J
American Company
Brentano's
Avenue de Opéra
Miie
Hamburg— America
Mayence
Saarbach S
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