New Knight of Garter and Canonbury Tower Legends
King Edward knighthoods the Earl of Northampton, a noted philanthropist who transformed Canonbury Tower into a London poor-relief center and museum. The article traces Canonbury’s history from a fourteenth century mansion to its ties with Bacon, Goldsmith, and Smart, and notes Northampton’s wealth from Ashburton ground rents fueling his social work and evolving political views. It also covers Menelek II of Ethiopia’s illness and Lord Harrington’s postponement of travel, plus Adair versus Hodson ballad connections.
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Brentwood Company
Edward
Garter
Earl of Northampton
England
Canonbury Tower
London
Washington Irving
Henry VIII
Thomas
Lord Cromwell
Sir John Spencer
Will Compton
Lord Northampton
Lord Compton
Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer
Sir John
Queen Elizabeth
Tower of London
John Spencer
Northampton
Francis Bacon
Liver Goldsmith
Wakefield
Ephraim Chambers
Westminster Abbey
Christopher Smart
David
Rosetti
Browning
Whipping Boy Origins of the Northampton Line
Lord Northampton traces descent to Osbert of Compton from the Norman era, with Compton Wynyates as the family seat since Doomsday. The house, a Tudor castle cottage blend, faced Civil War sieges and later whitewashing by Lord Northampton. Kings and queens stayed there. Inigo Jones added turrets and a gallery. biblical texts adorn roof balustrades.
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Lord Northampton
Osbert of
Compton
Henry II
Turchil of Arden
Harold
William the Conqueror
Hastings
Compton Wynyates
Wiliam Compton
Earl of Northampton
Henry VII
England
Charles 1
Lord
Northampton
Long Northampton
Castle Arkby
Queer
Elizabeth
James I
Inigo Jones
William Ill
Extraordinary Name Of A Crown Prince In Abyssinia
An Abyssinian postal service opens under Emperor Menelek with a capital post office at Adis Ababa. A French official will run it while Abyssinia remains outside the postal union. A 12 year old heir apparent named Yassa, meaning Jesus, is named as successor amid royal succession details.
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Menelek
John Harrington
Amy
United States
James McMillan
Detroit
England
America
Harrington
Adis Ababa
Abyssinia
Sir John
Mehelek
Europe
Adis Ataba
Solomon
Sheba
Abyesinia
Desigiter
Michael
Wolio Horormend Auksa
Ras Makonnen
Edward VII
Yassa
Jesus
Stetson Gives Twenty Five Dollars to Cleveland Portrait Fund
Francis Lynde Stetson, partner of Grover Cleveland during his Albany reform period, donated 25 dollars toward a portrait for the New York Governor’s State Capitol chamber. The fund totals 205 dollars as of July 13, 1908, with several subscriptions previously acknowledged.
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Grover Cleveland
Empire State
State Capitol
Albany
the Tribune
Francis Lynde Stetson
Mr. Cleveland
New-York Tribune
Park Row
New York
Cleveland
Ancient Vedda War Weapons Unearthed by American Museum
Dr. Herman C. Bumpus announced the American Museum of Natural History acquired a rare ethnological collection of Vedda weapons from Ceylon. via Professor Charles Sarasin the items include iron barbed arrows and four-foot cane shafts. Wissler notes little material from the Vedda, a dwarfish forest-dwelling people facing population decline and cultural erosion.
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Herman C. Bumpus
American Museum of Natural History
Ceylon
Charles Sarasin
Museum of Natural History
Geneva
Switzerland
India
Philippine Islands
Clark Wissler
Department of Anthropology
Museum
Theatrical News Engages For New York Season
Richard Carie’s engagement ends Saturday at the New York Theatre. Cohan and Harris’s qinstrels reopen August 3 for the 1965 69 season. two weeks later Carie returns with Mary’s Lamb. The Destruction of Jerusalem is on tonight at Brighton Beach.
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Richard Carie
New York Theatre
Cohan and Harris
Mr. Carie
Robert Edeson
Astor Theatre
Luna Park
Firemen's Memorial Fund
Rosemary Gloszard Donald Brian
the Merry Widow
T D Jordan Dies in Wall Street Subway Station
Thomas D Jordan ex controller of Equitable Life Assurance Society dropped dead on the downtown Wall Street subway platform yesterday afternoon. He had fled New York during an insurance probe over the yellow dog loans and left his sonFrank B Jordan a fire insurance broker at 120 Broadway. Jordan, aged sixty six, had suffered from fatty degeneration of the heart and was reportedly in good health moments before his death.
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Thomas D. Jordan
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Wall Street
Frank B. Jordan
Broadway
Englewood
N. J
Jordan
Mr. Jordan
Church Street
Albert T. Weston
Weston
Frank Jordan
New York
Alexander
Mercantile Trust Company
Equitable
Armstrong Insurance
Justice Goff
Supreme Court
New York City
Equittable Life Assurance Society
Henry B. Hyde
Alexander-Tarbell-Hyde
State Insurance Department
State Banking Department
Paul Morton
Morton
Canada
Hughes
Insurance Investigating Committee
Little Rock
Ark
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Paseo Improvement Company Head Dies Leaves Family
The long time head of the Paseo Improvement Company dies, leaving a wife, a son Frank B., and a daughter Mrs Edward D O'Brien wife of Judge Denis O'Brien of the Court of Appeals.
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Paseo Improvement Company
Frank B
Edward D. O’brien
Denis O’brien
Court of Appeals
Mrs Jane A Martin Dies Following Week's Illness
Mrs Jane A Martin widow of John T Martin and daughter of the late Robert Barkley died Monday at her home 3 West sith Street. Her husband was an army contractor during the Civil War and later a director in banks and railroads and proprietor of Martins Stores on the Brooklyn waterfront. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery after a 4 PM funeral at her home. she leaves seven nephews and nieces.
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Jane A. Martin
John T. Martin
Robert Barkley
West Sith Street
Nickel Plate Railroad
Brooklyn
Martin's Stores
Martin
Old Broadway Stage Line
Citizens’ Insurance Company
Broadway Savings Institution
Madison Avenue Reformed Church
Boston
Pateman
Irvington-on-Hudson
William Pateman
St. Barnabas Church
William Mason Pianist Dies in City Home at Eightieth
William Mason, noted pianist and son of Dr. Lowell Mason, died yesterday at his residence 1 West 81st Street. He was born in Boston in 1829 and began public performances in 1846 before studying in Leipzig under Moscheles, Hauptmann, and E F Richter. He passed from heart disease and heat.
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William Mason
West 81St Street
Mr. Mason
Boston
Lowell Mason
Leipsic
Moscheles
Moritz Hauptmann
E. F. Richter
Mason and Thomas piano soirées founder and educator
A pupil of Dreyschock and Liszt, Mason toured Europe in 1853 and returned to the U.S. in 1854 as a professional pianist. With Thomas Bergmann Mosenthal and Matzka he started in 1885 the Mason and Thomas chamber music series presenting works by Mozart Haydn Beethoven Schubert and Schumann. Mason spent most of his life in teaching writing piano methods and compositions and earned a Doctor of Music degree from Yale in 1872.
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Alexander Dreyschock
Prague
Liszt
Weimar
Europe
Theodore Thomas
Carl Bergmann
Joseph Mosenthal
George Matzka
Mason and Thomas
Mozart
Haydn
Beethoven
Schubert
Schumann
Mason
Longtime Brooklyn resident James Morgan dies at 91
James Morgan, a fifty eight year Brooklyn resident, died Monday night at his daughter Mrs. Jackson A Nichol’s home in Rockville Centre Long Island. Born in 1827 in Crossgates Scotland he migrated to Brooklyn in 1849 and entered the store business in 1852 with Morgan & Anderson. He later ran a mechanical musical instrument business until 1898 and served as president of the Olian company. He was a Mason affiliated with Mariners Lodge No. 67 in Manhattan and leaves two sons and six daughters.
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James Morgan
Brooklyn
Jackson A. Nichol
Rockville Centre
Long Island
Crossgates
Scotland
Morgan & Anderson
Olian Company
Lodge of Journeyman Masons
A. M
Edinburg
Mariners’ Lodge
Manhattan
William F Niedringhaus Dies at 73 in St. Louis
William F. Niedringhaus founder of the Granite City enamel plant died at his St. Louis home this afternoon from dropsy at age seventy three. All his children were at his death bed, including Thomas Kay Niedringhaus former Republican state chairman.
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The
Tribune
St. Louis
William F. Nedringhaus
Granite City
Thomas Kay Niedringhaus
Hughes Invited by Plattsburg Leaders for Corner Stone Event
A Plattsburg committee led by John F. O'Brien H. D. Hadley and James E. Carsley visited Governor Hughes at Saranac Inn on July 14 to urge attendance at the corner stone laying of the Plattsburg Y M C A building. L. L. Smith’s gifts totaling over a million funded much of the project. Hughes, fishing at Cold Pond Brook, later met the group at his cottage. outcome not disclosed. Dr. W. G. McDonald of Albany also called, likely regarding the Raybrook tuberculosis hospital.
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Tribune
Saranac Inn
N. Y
Charles E. Hughes
Plattsburg
John F. O’brien
Champlain
Clinton County
H. D. Hadley
E. D. Boomhower
James E. Carsley
Hughes
Young Men's Christian Association
L. L. Smith
Tlughes
Cold Pond Brook
W. G. McDonald
Albany
New York State Hospital
Raybrook
Essex County
Hammerstein to Bring Opera to Boston Next Season
Oscar Hammerstein announced he has leased the Boston Theatre from B F Keith and will use the Manhattan Opera Company for several weeks. Boston audiences have pressed for his stars and company, with the length of the season depending on local support and additional engagements being negotiated.
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Oscar Hammerstein
Boston
Boston Theatre
B. F. Keith
Manhattan Opera Company
Metropolitan Company
Metropolitan Opera House
Mr. Hanmimerstein
America
Roosevelt Renames San Jacinto Forest Cleveland National Forest
Roosevelt informs Mrs. Grover Cleveland that he has renamed the San Jacinto National Forest to the Cleveland National Forest. He honors Cleveland for advocating forest preservation and notes Cleveland’s role in creating reserves totaling millions of acres. Also outlines Roosevelt’s Newport plans, justice action on paper manufacturers, and weather forecasts from the local bureau.
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Tribune
Oyster Bay
Grover Cleveland
San Jacinto National Forest
Cleveland National Forest
Cleveland
Roosevelt
San Jacinto
Carolnia
Beca
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Newport
R. 1
Mayflower
Naval War College
United States Navy
John P. Merrell
Department of Justice
Herman Ridder
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Children Eager to Go to the Fresh Air Fund Exoduses
Crowded city roofs cellars and attics house needy families as Tribune Fresh Air Fund volunteers prepare hundreds of children for two week country outings to Litchfield Ardsley and Putnam line. Children ask if there will be grass trees and meals while awaiting trains and the program brings clothing gifts from church groups and donors as acknowledgments roll in.
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Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Shepherd Knapp
Litchfield
Ardsley
Putnam
Manor Chapel
Weer 26Th Street
West Fortyfourth Street
United Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn
East 116Th Street
Home Industrial School
East
Th Street
Broome Street Tabernacle
Church of the Holy Apostle
West 28Th Street
Widows’ Aid Society
Richmond Hill
Ashford Hill
William Gee
East Orange
Main Avenue Presbyterian Church
Devins
Alleged Rubens Found in Warsaw Cathedral
A painting described as Descent from the Cross, claimed to be by Rubens, was found in the Catholic Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Warsaw. The work, a masterful altarpiece, is linked to Antwerp Cathedral and several smaller replicas are known.
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Warsaw
Rubens
St. Nicholas
Antwerp
Prominent Arrivals at Noted Hotels and Halls
Senator White arrives at the Waldorf Astoria in Albany while Kametaro Hayashida the Japanese imperial commissioner visits the Majestic in New York. Baron von Bruening is seen at the Astor in Washington as General W. W. Gordon from Savannah checks into the Seville and George W. Vanderbilt visits the St Regis in Biltmore North Carolina.
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Waldorf-Astoria
Senator White
Albany
Majestic
Kametaro Hayashida
Tokio
Japan
Hotel Astor
Baron von Bruening
Washington
Seville
W. W. Gordon
Savannah
ST. Regis
George W. Vanderbilt
Biltmore
N.C
Weather Report Forecast For Coasts And Lakes
Official record from Washington July 14 notes Wednesday winds along the middle Atlantic and New England coasts will be fresh and mostly westerly, while south Atlantic and Gulf coasts see light variable winds. Great Lakes expect fresh to northwest to north winds easing to light and variable on the upper lakes. Steamers to European ports face light to fresh westerly winds with showers on the Grand Banks. Local rains and thunderstorms reported from the Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys to the Pacific coast, with rain also in the Southwest.
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Rocky Mountain Districts
Missouri
Red River
Middle Atlantic States
Mississippi
Lake
Missouri Valley
Upper
Lake Region
Washington
Middle Atlantic
New England
South Atlantic
Gulf
Great Lakes
Upper Lakes
European
Grand Banks
Death notices from The Tribune republished in Tri-Weekly Tribune
Obituaries published list multiple individuals with residences in Brooklyn Stamford Ossining and Atlantic City. Entries include John J Adama Caroline W Anderson Louisa M Bolton Mary E Fuller Josiah Pest Howell Mary A Lanigan Jane A Martin William Mason Mary Morris Post Gertrude Abbot Van Wagenen with details on residence funeral plans dates and times and requested flowers not to be sent.
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Tribune
Tri-Weekly
Howell
Brooklyn
Josiah Pest Howell
Monroe Place
Lanigan
Mary A
Daniel Lanigan
Lafayette Ave
Church of St. Ambrose
Readity Undertakers and Ambulance Services Spotlight
The ad describes undertakers and ambulance services accessible via Harlem trains from Grand Central, with contact points at Gramercy and 20 East 22d Street. It lists lots for sale at $150, and promotes Frank F Campbell at 2413 West 227th Street Chapel and Rev Stephen Merritt as a world wide undertaker. Multiple phone numbers are provided for Chelsea and the St. Ave and 19th St location.
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Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster and
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
East 22d St
New York City
Stephen Merritt
St. Ave
19Th St
Chelsea
Special Notices and Tribune Subscription Rates Outline
An excerpt from The New York Tribune promotes consulting the file of aspirants for positions at its Uptown office and lists subscription rates and mailing options for various editions. It includes office hours, delivery to domestic and foreign addresses, and multiple pricing tiers for daily, tri weekly, weekly Farmer, Sunday editions, and Tribune Almanac.
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New-York Tribune
Broadway
36Th
37Th Streets
United States
Mexico
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Bronx
Joe Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Tribune Almanac
Tribune
New York City
Sunday Tribune
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Richard
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Marquise DE Fontenoy
MR. Stetson Aids Fund
Executive Chamber
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Radenungtss
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Presbyterian Sunday School
Joseph Barrett
the Weather Report
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John J. Adama
Church of the Visitation
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Stamford
Louisa M. Bolton
John Bolton
Milton L. Reeves
Sumner
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Aaron T. Demarest
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Undertakers
Frank F. Campbell
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125Th Street
Newark
Branc CE
Frederic Sommer
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American Express Company
Thomas Cook & Son
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Rigune
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Bureau Des Etrangere
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Nice
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French, Lemon & Co
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Hamburg
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