Amusements listing of 1908 venue shows acts and times
A quick catalog of theatres and shows including AERIAL GARDEN 8:80 The Merry Widow at Amusements. ASTOR S5 30 Patc in Full. BRIGHTON BEACH Davi s Fireworks. CASINO 8 The Mimic World. CURCLE 2 15 s 15 The Merry Go Round. LOONEY ISLAND Lana Park Dreamland. DALY S 15 Girls SDEN MUSER The World in Wax. RAMMERSTEIN S ROOF 2 8 15 Vaudeville. HERALD SQUARE S 15 Three Twins. JARDIX DE PARIS 8 15 Fabies of 1908 KNICKERBOCKER S 15 The Yankee Drince. NEW YORK S 30 Mary s Lamb.
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ASTOR
Patc
Brighton
Beaci—Davi
Casino
Curcle
Looney Island
Lana Park
Dreamland
Daly's
Rammerstein
Vaudevile
Herald Square
Jardix DE Paris
Knickerbocker
New York
Network Daily Tribune disclosure of ownership and officers
The New York newspaper states ownership and publication are by The Triune Association, a New York corporation, with offices at Tribune Building No 154 Nassau Street. Ogden Mills serves as president and Nathaniel Tuttle as secretary and treasurer, with the office listed as the newspaper’s address.
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The
Triune Association
New York Corporation
Tribune
Nassau Street
New York
Ogden Mills
Nathaniel Tuttle
Foreign and domestic blurbs blend in wartime dispatches
Dispatches from Tegucigalpa and Asuncion report Honduran rebel activity, Nicaraguan aid, and heavy casualties, while Matanzas warns of a race war after a white child’s murder. Fire at Budapest, a Galloping schedule from Denver, Taft-Hitchcock campaigns, and East Boston waterfront blaze mark a chaotic snapshot of July news across continents.
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Tegucigalpa
Cioloteca
O'Brien
Asuncion
F Alacranes
Matanzas
Budapest
Parker versus Iker at the convention a party split
The piece contrasts Parker and Iker at the convention, praising Parkers fighter stance and endurance while criticizing Iker for rigidity and subservience to regularity. It notes Parkers defiance of prevailing sentiment and Iker's move to a safer, more compliant presentation. Bryan remains a radical echo of four years ago.
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Cleveland
Judge Parker
Denlwer
Mr. Bryan
Xvas
Iker
Bryan
Land Memorial
Lincoln
Brien
Parker and Bryan Clash Over Democratic Convention Roles
The article depicts Judge Parker constrained by Murphy's control of the resolutions committee with Bryan's influence shaping his stance. Parker, once seen as the party's radical, now must appear as its premier regular as he eyes 1912, while keeping Sheehan from irregularity.
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Committee
Bryan
Parker
Murphy
Tammany
Democratic Party
Mr. Sheehan
Judge Parker
The Republicans Name Hitchcock and Sheldon for Key Roles
The Republican National Committee selects Frank H. Hitchcock as chairman and George R. Sheldon as treasurer. The article praises Hitchcock for modern, issue based campaigning and notes Sheldon will comply with New York publicity laws. It underscores commitment to transparent campaign contributions and reduced canvass costs.
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W. J. Bryan
Committee On
Denver
McCarren
Guffey
Sullivan
Ilinois
Idaho
Republican National
Taft
Et Hot Springs
Frank H. Hitchcock
George R. Sheldon
Arthur J. Verysmanger
Ohio
Boston
St. Louis
Pine Camp
Speer
Muskogee
Okla
Washington
Snake Camp
Honolulu
Republican National Committee
Cortelyou
Hitchcock
Corteliou
Chicago
Vineing
National Committee
New York
Republican Party
Requirements
Sheldon
Republican State Committee
Hughes
Castroitis and the Barbarians of the Americas
A Tribune column mocks a reader's defense of Cipriano Castro's actions in Venezuela, affirming the Venezuelan dictator's right to quell rebellions while criticizing alleged American property confiscations. It defends the U.S. State Department's Morals and justice, lampooning Castroitis as a feverish myth and ending with a sardonic quip on Bolivar’s era and regional tensions.
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Cipriano Castro
Tribune
American State Department
New York and Bermudez Company
Castro
Venezuela
New York
Bolivar
America
Europe
Call for Grover Cleveland portrait in New York Capitol
The piece urges a governor’s chamber tribute to Grover Cleveland. It proposes hanging his portrait beside Van Buren and Roosevelt in Albany, noting Cleveland’s rise from the governor’s office to national prominence. The author emphasizes propriety and lasting remembrance in New York.
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Grover Cleveland
New York
Cleveland
Albany
United States
Martin van Buren
Theodore Roosevelt
Memorials to statesmen forget Grover Cleveland at office
Visitors to that office who see memorials of George Clinton William H Seward Hamilton Fish Horatio Seymour Edwin D Morgan John A Dix and Samuel J Tilden to forget that Grover Cleveland was one of the statesmen who in the executive chair did service to the Empire State The Tribune would be glad to receive and acknowledge subscriptions for this purpose The sum required would not be large and individual contributions might appropriately be small and numerous.
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George Clinton
William H. Seward
Hamilton Fish
Horatio Seymour
Edwin D. Morgan
John A. Dix
Samuel J. Tilden
Grover Cleveland
Empire State
Tribune
The Restorers and the Heidelberg Castle Debate
A satirical critique of the German restoration craze sparked by the Kaiser and Grand Duke of Baden. The piece weighs the merits of reviving historic ruins, noting the Kaiser’s recent Storthenigsberg restoration and the proposal to repair Heidelberg’s Schloss. It warns against overzealous antiquarian work while praising guarded preservation.
International wireless telegraphy pact comes into force
An international agreement on wireless telegraphy, conceived years ago, begins this month. Most ratify the Berlin accord allowing ships and coast stations to exchange messages, with licensing for operators and spectrum divisions to prevent interference. The U S hesitates but may soon act. tuning and possible revisions after trial are anticipated.
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United States
Congyess
Navy Department
Berlin
Erskine Murray
London Times
Denver Attitude Influences Hobson in Democratic Session
Denver's approach appears to affect Representative R. P. Hobson as he describes insights from his meeting with the Democratic resolutions committee. He says the issues discussed are not obvious to casual observers, noting they lie further than a mile away in implication.
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Denver
R. P. Hobson
Democratic Resolutions Committee
Rural dispatch mocks grand prize hoax and party splits
A Farmington Maine dispatch notes many addressed letters to C W Averill claiming a $10,000,000 heir status after a $500 reward news. The editorial mocks credulity and questions the Denver platform’s appeal to Black voters. It cites Missouri’s Democratic row between Stone Folk and Vancis and Gov Folk, with only verbal damage so far.
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Missouri
Stone
Vancis
Folk
Denver
Illinois Central stockholders subscribe to all new issue
Stockholders of the Illinois Central Railroad subscribe to the entire 14 million dollar issue. Most purchases were paid in full, with only half the amount requested as an instalment. The Denver convention is mentioned but not drawn into concern.
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Illinois Central Railroad
Restoration of Heidelberg Castle Sparks Local Protest
Reported plans by the Grand Duke of Baden to restore Heidelberg Castle draw protests from residents and visitors who value the ruins as the town’s symbol and a major draw on the Neckar. A native shared a written critique emphasizing the ruin’s historic charm over modernization or reconstruction.
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Heidelberg
Baden
Schloss
Neckar
Guffey the Civil War of Politics and Wealth
James McClurg Guffey, a Pennsylvania Democratic leader and oil magnate worth over five million, rails in the anti Bryan fight. A veteran fighter, he seeks adversaries to match his vigor, while his fortunes span oil fields in multiple states and holdings across mines and real estate, with the warlike stride of a colonel in public life.
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Chicago Record-Herald
James McClurg Guffey
Guffey
Rhoderick Dhu
William Guffey
Lanarkshire
Forbes
Fort Duquesne
Loyalhanna Creek
Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania
James Guffey
Cure Worse Than the Disease Heating Plan Shields Workers
The Philadelphia Record reports a factory owner who vents heated rooms and seals windows to fight heat. He dries the humid air with steam heat, raising temperature slightly but cutting humidity and preventing heat prostration among workers. He notes previous daily collapses and shutdowns on hot days, now avoided.
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Philadelphia Record
Farmer uses bantam rooster to guard Swanville cornfield
Fred Small on his Swanville farm reports a successful crow scare method. A bantam rooster in a wire cage with nest deters crows by early morning crowing, keeping them from interfering with the corn.
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Kennebeck Journal
Fred Small
Swanville
Crowe
New York Society Sees Elite Arrivals From England and Abroad
Notables including Charles Lanier Helen and Kate Brice Miss Jennie Crocker J Hampden Robb and family arrive today aboard the Adriatic from England. Alfred Vanderbilt Commodore and Mrs Gerry and others expected next week. Baroness Halkett rents a summer cottage at Ampersand. Wilson family guests at Manhattan Beach Oriental Hotel. Vanderbilt and Phipps families split residences for the season. Goulds and McCreerys travel abroad and to Aix les Bains and Dinard. Various society figures head to Newport Eastbourne and the White Mountains for the summer.
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Charles Lanier
Helen
Kate Brice
Jennie Crocker
J. Hampden Robb
Robb
England
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Commodore
Elbridge T. Gerry
Gerry
James A. Burden
Griswold Gray
Lenox Weather Prompts Trap Busy Streets and Show Talks
Cool weather cut temperatures by over 30 degrees since yesterday as Lenox sees busy avenues and grate fires in hill resort hotels. A Lenox Horse Show Association meeting is set for Saturday to decide if a show will be held this year at a potential ground near the Sloane property. Several New York and Fort Henry residents, including Mrs. William B. Brown and Malcolm Faile, are staying at the Hotel Aspinwall, while others plan onward travel to Scarboro-on-the-Hudson and back to Lenox.
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the Tribune
Lenox
Mass
Lenox Horse Show Association
Lenox Club
Sloane
Lee Pleasure Park
William B. Brown
W. H. Pomeroy
Malcolm Faile
Charles V. Faile
New York
Aspinwall
Wallace T. Foote
Charles St. Clair Pelton
J. R. Sherman
James Smythe
Fort Henry
N. Y
William B. Hornblower
Righteousness in Politics at Edinburgh Convention
Rev Dr Mills of Chicago links New Testament ethics to family and economics and calls for a presidency guided by righteous teaching in America. He says both parties balk at nominating a candidate not a known teacher of righteousness. Rev Dr Brown notes high drunkenness in Edinburgh versus San Francisco.
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Edinburgh
Dr. Mills
Chicago
International Congregational Convention
America
White House
Great American Corporation
Brown
California
San Francisco
The President’s Guests at Oyster Bay Luncheon
President entertains Dr. Lyman Abbott and his sons Lawrence and Ernest, Henry P. Needham, Mark Sullivan of Collier’s, and Granville R. Fortescue, a cousin, at luncheon in Oyster Bay. The guests were attached to rural guards in Cuba.
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Oyster Bay
Lyman Abbott
Lawrence
Ernest
Henry P. Needham
Mark Sullivan
Dinner at Dorchester House Hosts Revealing Guests
Ambassador and Mrs. Reid entertained at Dorchester House with guests including the French and Spanish ambassadors, Lord and Lady Lansdowne, Senator and Miss Wetmore of Rhode Island, and J. P. Morgan.
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London
Reid
Dorchester House
Lord
Lady Lansdowne
Miss Wetmore
Rhode Island
J. P. Morgan
English school marks American holiday with July Fourth
The John Bright Memorial School at Llandudno Wales observed the Fourth of July as a holiday by order of its trustees to commemorate Whitelaw Reid the American Ambassador who dedicated the school last September. This is the first time the American holiday has been recognized by an English school. After Reid spoke last autumn the pupils hung his portrait and drafted an address praising Americans as kin.
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Skat Association of America
Skat
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Buffalo
Knelpe
Wenzel-ritter
Baedeker
Coblenz
Rhine
Essen
Belgium
John Murray
St. Petersburg
Seville
Ostend
Constantinople
Murray
Ciceroni
Lohnbediente
London
John Bright
Llandudno
Wales
Whitelaw Reid
Reid
Vanderbilts Leave Biltmore for Europe Voyage to New York
By telegraph to The Tribune Asheville July reports Mr George W Vanderbilt his wife and daughter Cornelia with a party of friends left Biltmore today for New York. The Vanderbilt family will sail for Europe this month and be away for almost a year.
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the Tribune
Asheville
N. C
George W. Vanderbilt
Cornelia
Biltmore
New York
Professor Weds Wealthy Deaf Mute in Chicago
Miss Mary Josephine Crane daughter of Charles R. Crane a millionaire iron manufacturer, married Professor H Bradley of the University of Wisconsin in Chicago today. Crane has been deaf and dumb since birth.
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the Tribune
Chicago
Mary Josephine Crane
Charles R. Crane
H. ©. Bradley
University of Wisconsin
Crane
Barrett III Ill in Denver Attends Democratic Convention
John Barrett III director of the Bureau of American Republics is ill at the home of John W. Springer in Denver suffering from a cold. A report of typhoid is denied. He came to attend the Democratic National Convention.
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John Barrett !III
Denver
John Barrett
Bureau of American Republics
John W. Springer
Body of Rear Admiral Thomas Expected Here En Route to Newport
The body of Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas who died of apoplexy in California on July 3 is expected to arrive Friday in Edgewater Park New Jersey on its way to Newport Rhode Island for burial. Mrs B J Thomas the admiral's mother has arrived at her home.
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the Tribune
Edgewater Park
N. J
Charles M. Thomas
California
Newport
R.I
B. J. Thomas
Funeral of W B Leeds Prominent Tin Plate Trust Leader
The funeral for William B. Leeds former president of the Tin Plate Trust and longtime Rock Island Railway figure died June 23 at the Hotel Ritz Paris was held yesterday at his Fifth Avenue home. Services were led by Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires and Rev Hughes with pallbearers including Dr. G. Reid E R Bacon Elisha Drer Sidney J. Smith Pembroke Jones Lispenard Stewart H I Miller JL Loree James D W Cutting and George L. Rives.
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William B. Leeds
Tin Plate Trust
Rock Island Railway
E. R. Bacon
Elisha Drer
Sidney J. Smith
Pembroke Jones
Lispenard Stewart
H. I. Miller
JL. F. Loree
James D. W. Cutting
George L. Rives
Social Notes From Newport Busy Summer Season At Ocean Front
Telegraph dispatch from Newport lists many summer residents and visitors at Oakland the Portsmouth home of Alfred G Vanderbilt. Notables include Reginald Vanderbilt Colonel De Kane William Watts Sherman and James Laurens Van Alen. Attendees mix lawn gaiety garden parties and club gatherings as coaching interest reemerges amid a wave of hospitality and travel.
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Newport
R. J
Oakland
Portsmouth
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Reginald
Vanderbilt
Joseph Harriman
James B
Laura Swan
Samme
Alfred =. Vanderbilt
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Colonel de Kane
Wilam H. Maher
Paul A. Andrews
L. Garry
William Watts Sherman
William Gragevenor
Fountain Club
James de Wolf
Stanley Mortimer
Europe
J. J. Coogan
Whitehall
T. Shaw Safe
East Greenwich
Steele
George Pollock
New York
Seth Barton French
E. G. Curley
Elisha Dyer
Lispenard Stewart
Willam & Leeds
Eugene S. Reynal
Rooney
Rhode Island Avenue
Samuel Jones Wangstat
J. B. King
Charles M. Bull
George Murray
William G. Roelker
Egerton Th Winthrop
F. H
Bishop Potter Still Gaining In Cooperstown
In Cooperstown New York Bishop Potter showed a steady though slight improvement today with physicians expressing ongoing encouragement about his condition and daily progress.
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Potter
Cooperstown
N. Y
Bishop Potter
Itls
Edeson Weds Miss Porter in Brookline
Boston July ceremony unites actor Robert Edeson and Miss George Eliot Porter daughter of Linn Boyd Porter and former wife of Charles Mackay in a Brookline home service. They plan to reside at Sag Harbor Long Island.
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Boston
Robert Edeson
George Eliot Porter
Linn Boyd Porter
Charles Mackay
Brookline
P. Fifford
Sag Harbor
Long Island
Summer School Enrolment Likely To Rise This Year
Miss Whitner reports pending registrations show higher summer attendance for 27 vacation schools and their playgrounds with 19 serving mothers and babies. Waiting lists exist but may not prevent care for all pupils as many registered early did not attend later sessions. Last year 31 schools averaged 16.10 attendees.
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Miss Whitner
Rockefeller Seventy? Birthday Quietly Observed at Forest Hill
John D. Rockefeller celebrated his sixty ninth birthday at his Forest Hill suburban home in Cleveland. He told friends that he enjoyed splendid health and never felt better in his life.
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Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Forest Tt
Mr. Rockefeller
Maeterlinck Verhaeren Proposed for Nobel Prize
Brussels reports the Belgian government and the Royal Academy of Sciences have nominated Maurice Maeterlinck and Emile Verhaeren for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The moves reflect renewed effort to honor Belgian literary figures on the international stage.
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Brussels
Royal Academy of Sciences
Letters
Fine
Maurice Maeteriine
Emile Verhaerin
Memorial to Grover Cleveland Proposed in Chicago
A popular movement began at a Unit League Club dinner in Chicago to honor Grover Cleveland with a memorial. A committee was formed to study monument plans and one speaker proposed an endowment fund for a utilitarian memorial.
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Chicago
Grover Cleveland
Unit League Club
Brooklyn Singers Welcome to Bremen Visit
The Brooklyn Arion Choral Society, two hundred strong, arrived by the Barbarossa. Bremen locals and the United Men's Singing Societies greeted them with a ceremonial welcome as two thousand singers and guests gathered aboard. Senator Rassow welcomed the guests and hoped the visit would foster fraternal ties between nations. The society president spoke, and performances by the Arion Society and the Brooklyn Women's Quartet elicited enthusiastic response.
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Bremen
Brooklyn
Arion Choral Society
Barbarossa
Bremerhaven
9 Cieties
United Men's Singing Societies of
Brom
Senator Rassow
United Singing Societies
Arion Society
Brooklyn Women's Quartet
Transatlantic Travellers on Steamers to Europe
Passengers listed for steamships bound for Europe include the Baltic to Liverpool with Mr and Mrs J Edwards and others, the La Touraine to Havre, the Luetzow to Bremen, and the Moltke to Hamburg, featuring numerous couples and families such as the Barbour, Tallmadge, Ripley, and others.
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Det
Europe
J. Edwards
H. & Gueer” Barbour
Sleeve
William
William Osborne
THE
Luetzow
Bremen
Frederic Ies Soreenabee
Palmer
F. Ripley
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Oriental Hotel
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Hempstead
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Eastbourne
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White Mountains
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William ©. Baker
Haverhill
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E. P. Scott
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Mase
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Mr. Taft
He Springs
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President Roosevelt
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Robert Ebeson
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