Rose of the Rancho and New York vaudeville listings
Amusements page lists multiple theaters and acts including Rose of the Rancho at Academy of Music, Irene Wreeheriey, The Warrens of Virginia at Belasco, The Parisian Model at Broadway, Faust and other staples, with show times mainly in late afternoon to evening across venues such as Carnegie Hall, Keith Exposition houses, and various vaudeville and musical acts through the night.
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Academy OF Music
S— Vauderine
Irene Wreeheriey
Belasco
Virginia
Holland Daly
Society
Eden Musee
The
Empire
Garrick
Goetz von
New York Daily Exhibunee Ownership and Offices
The Tribune Association owns and publishes this newspaper. It is a New York corporation with offices at the Tribune Building, No. 15 Nassau Street, New York. Ogden Mills serves as president and Nathaniel Tuttle as secretary and treasurer.
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The
Tribune Association
New York
Tribune
Nassau Street
Ogden Mills
Nathaniel Tuttle
Congress Debates Funds and Economy in Senate and House
Senate Secretary Cortelyou's fund distribution policy drew discussion while House Appropriations Chair Tawney urged strict economy amid a possible 100 million dollar deficit. Domestic and foreign items include Lisbon plot arrests, Japanese Diet politics, and fleet welcomes in South America. Weather: fair and colder with a high around 40.
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Congress
Senate
Cortelyou
House
Tawney
Appro Committee
Fire Department Scandal Highlights Longstanding Hose Shortage
Fire Commissioner Lantry testified about a problematic hose supply in New York City's Fire Department. The issue predates his tenure, spanning commissioners Hayes and O'Brien, with Chief Croker repeatedly warning of poor quality hoses that were ignored by successive leaders and the department's wasteful handling of communications.
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Lantry
Tammany
Murphy
Fire Department
Hayes
O'Brien
Fire Department Under Fire Over Hose and Alarm Failures
The Board of Fire Underwriters harshly criticizes the department noting rotten hose and an alarm system described as a disgrace and a standing menace. They warn of imminent breakdown and daily errors in transmission, urging a broad investigation to reveal how public funds are spent and what protection residents truly receive despite over 200 million dollars annually.
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Tammany
O’brien
Hayes
Board of Fire Underwriters
Altruism and the Bryan renomination debate in 1900s
The piece reviews the failed emotional push to persuade William Jennings Bryan to surrender his presidential bid for party unity. It cites The New York Times and The Brooklyn Eagle as saying force, not soft words, would remove Bryan at the Denver convention. It also contrasts Natal and Transvaal policies toward Asiatics, noting Natal’s gentler controls and Transvaal’s harsher stance aimed at discouraging Asiatic settlement.
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Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Nebraska Statesman
Jefferson
Jackson
Baltimore Sun
Democratic Party
New York Times
Brooklyn Eagle
Denver
Times
New Yorkly Critique of Concealed Weapons Laws
An editorial condemns lax concealed weapon controls after a woman used pistols to shoot a restaurant patron and self destruct. It argues most carriers lack permits, calls for strict pistol sale oversight, and insists buyers show authority permits to curb violence and force dealers to vet buyers.
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New York
Indians in Africa Struggle Sparks Across Natal to Transvaal
The fight over Asiatic labor in Africa centers on the Transvaal Boer colony but may spread to Cape Colony. The issue stems from Natal’s British-led sugar industry needing labor, prompting contract Indian importation at public expense, shaping regional hostility and policy.
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Natal
Transvaal
Africa
Cape Colony
Witwatersrand
The Environment Cure at Fort Clinton Prison Site
The piece argues against building a state prison at the Revolutionary forts site near Hudson, ridiculing the idea that surroundings reform criminals. It mocks using lofty scenery as moral therapy while noting the irony of choosing such a landscape amid calls for reform and the historical battle nearby.
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Montgomery
Clinton
Hudson
Anthony's Nose
Highlands
Peekskill
Garrison
Chain Gang
Niagara Falls
Adirondacks
West Point
Watkins Glen
Sanitary crisis in Trenton tied to typhoid outbreak
A city committee reports 141 typhoid cases and 9 deaths from November to mid-January in Trenton New Jersey, urges water supply cleanup from Delaware River, rejects wells, and notes puzzling doubts on disease origin. The piece condemns sewage pollution and urges filtration to rescue public health. It mocks the idea that tainted water might not cause fever.
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Trenton
N. J
Delaware
John Smith
William Jones
Jones
Smith
Court Clarifies 2 Cent Fare Law Statewide Limits
Court ruled the 2 cent railroad fare law invalid only as to the Pennsylvania Railroad and similarly situated railroads, not all carriers, calling the rate confiscatory for passenger business. Albany bills seek safeguards for moving picture machines with local fire department permits and inspections. Dr. Bensel blasts Staten Island dog control while others question official overreach and debt practices. Thaw trial may curb expert testimony to three per side.
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Toto
Pennsylvania Railroad
McGrath-McCall
Albany
Dr. Bensel
Department of Health
New York City
Staten Island
Talk of the Day and varied scraps from the press
A collage of quotes and notes spans imperial finance, a Chinese medical college plan, a riddle from Little Annie Rooney, a witty Austrian crime note, a lawyer’s reputation remark, a New York boy's office misfit, and a Christmas joke about Colonel Bourbon. The items illustrate daily humor, international finance, and small-town wit.
Gun With One Trigger Kills 189 Ducks on Potomac
The Baltimore Sun reports ex-deputy game warden Harry Malcolm sent a photo of a nine barrel gun with a single trigger, likened to a Gatling gun, which allegedly killed 189 ducks in one pull. He helped arrest seven men and seized the outfit as unlawful weaponry harming the Potomac duck hunt, with 150 pounds of gear and 85 dead ducks noted.
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Baltimore Sun
Harry Malcolm
the Sun
Malcolm
Messrs
R. H. Cox
W. M. Lyons
Sidney Barber
Potomac River
Neighon Matheca
White House hosts annual Supreme Court reception
President and Mrs. Roosevelt welcomed about two thousand guests including the Supreme Court, Cabinet members, and dozens of lawmakers at the White House. An impromptu Cabinet meeting was held to review appointments since Congress began its session. Afterward the President walked in the snow.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Judiciary
White House
Fairbanks
Cabinet
Secretary of War
Taft
Marine
Fuller
Congress
Bonaparte
Knox
Ladies of the Maccabees
Depew
Warner
Hansbrough
Hopkins
McLaurin
Smoot
Flint
Carter
Beveridge
Law
Calder
Waldo
Durwell
Fitzgerald
Marshall
Darzell
McLachlan
Bird
Longworth
Tirrell
Wanger
J. A. Stewart
New York League of Republican
J. B. Reynolds
New York
Julius Fleischmann
Cincinnati
Shaw
Charles S. Mellen
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
T. E Byrnes
Cooley
Diplomatic Corps Hosts Dignitaries at Washington Dinner
Washington January 23. The British military attaché and Mrs. James hosted a dinner with guests including the Third Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs Huntington Wilson the French naval attaché and Mme de Blanpré Mrs Bayard the Hon Nina Kay Shuttleworth Prince Koudacheff of the Russian Embassy staff and William Phillips Also M and Mme Bardac and their sons visiting Paris bound for New York sail Saturday Mr Charteris recently attached to the British Embassy has arrived to assume duties in Washington
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
James
Huntington Wilson
Mme. de Blanpré
Bayard
Nina Kay Shuttleworth
Prince Koudacheff
William Phillips
Mme. Bardac
Viscount
Viscountess de Martel
New York
Paris
Mr. Charteris
Washington Society Hosts Numerous Winter Dinner Parties
In Washington society Mrs Hennen Jennings 16 entertains her San Francisco sister Miss Coleman with a large dinner. Associate Justices White Brewer Day host guests including Miss Brent Miss Carnahan and Mr Keppler, with Mr and Mrs Franklin Ellis and Mr and Mrs Charles Henry Butler also among tonight's hosts.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Hennen Jennings
Miss Coleman
San Francisco
Edward D. White
Miss Brent
New Orleans
White House
Brewer
Keppler
Berlin
Franklin Ellis
Charles Henry Butler
Day
Miss Carnahan
Ohio
Carnegie Foundation Reports Aims For National Role
The second annual report shows the Carnegie Foundation seeking national agency status rather than charity. It notes three institutions admitted: Dickinson College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, and Bates College, and discusses admissions standards for American and Canadian colleges, denominational concerns, and a proposed retiring allowance system for professors to strengthen the profession.
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Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Henry Smith Pritchett
Dickinson College
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Bates College
Praise for Bishop Rooker Heard in House Testimony
Lieutenant Colonel Hull, judge advocate of the Department of the East, testified before the House Committee on Insular Affairs in Washington on January 23 and praised the late Bishop Rooker for denying himself meals to aid the Church and its needy communicants.
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Washington
House Committee On Insular Affairs
Hull
Department of the East
Bishop Rooker
Endorsement Pleases President Over Public Lands Plan
Denver January 23 President Murdo Mackenzie of the National Livestock Association said he advised President Roosevelt that the association endorses his plan to administer public lands. Roosevelt replied telegrammed that he was extremely pleased, not for himself but for the nation as a whole.
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Denver
Murdo Mackenzie
National Livestock Association
Roosevelt
Miss Eline Aldrich Debut Receives High Society Honors
Miss Eline Aldrich, youngest daughter of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and his wife, debuted at a reception in Providence. Attended by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr and her sister, the event drew guests from Washington New York and Providence.
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the Tribune
Providence
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Eline Aldrich
Nelson W. Aldrich
Washington
New York
Society Dinners and Weddings Highlight New York Season
Mrs. John R. Drexel hosted a large East 62d Street dinner for three nieces including Margaretta Drexel and Mary Astor Paul with many guests and a cotillion led by Craig Wadsworth. engagements and weddings fill the social calendar with Vanderbilt, Sloane, and Dana families hosting events at Fifth and West 52nd streets.
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John R. Drexel
East 62d Street
Margaretta Drexel
Anthony J. Drexel
Mary Astor Paul
James W. Paul., Jr
Frances Fell
Alexander Wan Rensselaer
Craig Wadsworth
Coombs Elected President of Municipal Art Society
Ex congressman William J. Coombs president of South Brooklyn Savings Institution has been elected president of the Municipal Art Society succeeding Charles R. Lamb. He pledged to focus on beautifying the city and improving urban layout while acknowledging New York’s existing constraints. Coombs has long served in public roles including two Congress terms and later positions under Cleveland and McKinley.
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William J. Coombs
South Brooklyn Savings Institution
Municipal Art Society
Charles R. Lamb
Coombs
Municipal Art Commission
Washington
New York
Congress
Cleveland
Union Pacific Railroad
McKinley
Manufacturers’ Trust Company
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Brooklyn Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Brooklyn Institute
Correction from Mr Brooks on tax remarks at Cooper Union
John Graham Brooks defends statements from a Cooper Union lecture in New York on January 22 1908 clarifying he did not claim rich should be taxed at a given percent and disputing how Tolstoy was labeled. He notes his discussion of Roosevelt inheritance tax and war tax funding. he rejects linking Tolstoy to socialism.
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Neue Freie Presse
Vienna
Innsbruck
Zirl
Mittenwald
New York
Cooper Union
Roosevelt
Carnegie
Tolstoy
John Graham Brooks
Virginia to Honor Washington statue appropriation bill
A Senate bill in Richmond proposes a $10,000 appropriation for a marble Houdon statue of Washington to join the Lee statue in the Hall of Fame at Washington. The effort is to create a companion piece to the Lee statue, with Valentine credited for its execution.
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Richmond
Senate
Houdon
Washington
Hall of Fame
Lee
Valentine
Taft to Attend Yale Reunion
Secretary Taft will attend the thirtieth anniversary of Yale S class graduation. He belongs to class of 78 with 102 members, second in scholarship, and has attended every reunion. He is also a Yale Corporation member and will take part in university sessions.
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New Haven
Taft
Yale
Salutatoria i
Yale Corporation
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Zoos
Metropolitan Opera House
New Amsterdam
Terry Wiser
New Circle
Lonesome Town
Savoy
ST. Nicholas Rink
Wallace’s
New York Daily Exhibunee
Lisbon
Argentina
Uruguay
Peru
Military Court of Honor
Count von Hohenau
Parsons
Hughes
Admiral Brownson
Rixey
Chicago
B. L. Reitman
American Locomotive Works
Sioux
Narragansett Bay
State House
Boston
State Free Employment Bureau
Frederick W. Willey
Cumberland
Merrimac
Portland
New York Republican County Committee
Edward A. MacDowell
McClellan
Droege
Grand
Provident Savings Life Assurance Company
Croker
Williamsburg
Manhattan Terminal
Pennsylvania Supreme
Japan
Harper’s Weekly
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Bank of
France
George
Greece
Leopold
Bank of England
Washington Star
Gracey
Tsingtao
Chang Chiung
Chi Yen
Annie Rooney
Puck
Follansbee
Chicago Record-Herald
Hicks
Colonel Bourbon
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Somerville Journal
the Diplomatic Corps
IN Washington Society
Carnegie Foundation
NEW York Society
Miss Evelyn
Mildred
Irene Sherman
Helen Lispenard Alexandre
Harriet Alexander
Louise Iselin
Starr Miller
Harriet Daly
Ellen Mercer Atterbury
Katherine Atterbury
Moncure Robinson
Monson Morris
H. Peggieton Rogers, Jr
John B. Trevor
Gladys Vanderbilt
Ruth Twombly
Dorothy Whitney
Mire Vanderbilt
Harry Payne Whitney
Ladislas Szechenic
Sherry
William ©. Gulliver
H. Fairfield Osborn
Oliver Gould Jeffnings
Edward Ripley
Richard S. Dana
Georgette Collier
David T. Dana
Fifth Avenue
William Douglas Sloane
Emily Sloane
Henry Sloane
James A. Burden, Jr
East 1St Street
William K. Vanderbilt
Geraldine Farrar
St. Andrew’s Convalescent Hospital
East 17Th Street
Lyric Theatre
Prescott Hall Butler
J. Pierpont Morgan
Archibald Rogers
Fiske
John Mason
Arliss
Beatrice Herford
Langdon Geer
George A. Crocker, Jr
Doris Bissell
Dorothy Hurry
Eleanor Duane
Hildegarde Kobbbé
Gustav Kobbé
Joseph Hutchison Stevenson
Richard W. Stevesson
Hewlett
Long Island
Christ Church
Babylon
Virginia Robbé
Marion Stevenson
Lonie Alexandre
Lewis Cass Ledyard
St. Luke's Hospital
W. J. Coombs
C. R. Lamb
MR. Brooks
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