Naval Feud Overshadows Royal Fleet Maneuvers
London July 15 The battle between Sir John Fisher and Lord Charles Beresford dominates coverage of the grand naval maneuvers. The two admirals hub their factions and press campaigns while the Channel and home fleets train for North Sea contingencies, raising alarms about discipline and national policy. The naval press campaign is seen as destabilizing the service amid strategic reforms.
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Admiralty
Percy Scott
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Abu Kiea
Wilson
Nile
Chantrel
John Fisher
Lord Charles Beresford
Rhine
Whitehall
Bomb No 18 in gamblers war shocks Chicago
Bomb No 16 in the gamblers vendetta series exploded last night at James J. Corbett's saloon on State street. Planks two inches thick were torn from the rear, causing several hundred dollars in damaged goods and broken bottles.
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Chicago
James J. Corbett
State Street
Conference at Sagamore Hill on Central American affairs
President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Root, and Acting Secretary Robert Bacon met at Sagamore Hill to discuss Central American tensions. The exchange touched on Venezuela United States strains, Netherlands relations, and the Honduran revolt with possible links to Salvador and Guatemala. No official statement was released.
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Oyster Bay
Root
Robert Bacon
Sagamore Hill
Central America
Venezuela
United States
South American
Netherlands
Honduras
Salvador
Guatemala
Mexico
Roosevelt
Peter S. Grosscup
Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Gettysburg Funerals Cast Shadow Over Camp
Governor Stuart praised the camp experience at Gettysburg after a severe storm. Nearly fifty men were injured, some burned, but none are expected to die. Three fatalities from the Second Brigade funerals halted their return home as Chaplains H Femple and H N Silssey officiated. General Bowman's First Brigade prepared to strike camp for inspection tomorrow.
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Wiley
H. Femple
H. N. Silssey
16Th
Bowman
Puttees blamed for lightning deaths at Gettysburg camp
Major Amor W. Kimball in the quartermaster's department rejects claims that Pennsylvania state troops’ puttees attracted lightning. He explains Pennsylvania used a locally made pattern with weak metal strips, not enough steel to draw a bolt. He notes prior army gear resisted storms, while nearby encampments had deaths due to drowning and exposure.
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Amor W. Kimball
Quartermaster’s Department
United States Army
Middle Atlantic
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Kimball
Pine Plains
Georgia
Political Points and Electoral Law Across the Nation
A montage of opinion from multiple papers critiques labor policies and party tactics. It cites fears of the closed shop, questions Bryan's stance on race, calls for Democratic unity, and Georgia's unusual majority rule for presidential electors, noting Georgia may upset Bryanites with a plurality plan.
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Philadelphia
Georgia
Bryan
Prohibition
Independence
Watson
Bryanites
Potter Funeral Held In Cooperstown For Bishop Henry Potter
The funeral of the Right Rev Henry Codman Potter seventh Bishop of New York was held in Christ Church Cooperstown with a small gathering. The service featured prayers psalms and hymns as the body lay in state at Fernleigh and the procession moved to the churchyard. Archdeacon Nelson Canon Douglas and Rev Grant led the rites as family and clergy observed the somber ceremony.
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Cooperstown
N. Y
Henry Codman Potter
Christ Church
Fernleigh
James Fenimore Cooper
Potter
New York
George F. Nelson
Diocese of
Christ
Percy
Grant
Church of the Ascension
Ralph Birdsall
G. W. Douglas
Cathedral of
Charles T. Olmstead
Central
Archdeacon Nelson
Mr. Grant
Canon Douglas
Bishop Potter
125Th Street
New York Central
Trinity Cemetery
Amsterdam Avenue
Lth Street
St. John the Divine
Nelson
Greer
England
Dr. Neilson
St John the Divine
Trinity Corporation
Trinity Church
Lamb
Trinity
St. John
St.Luke
Trinity Chapel
Obituary: Timothy C. Adams Dies at 65 in Pound Ridge
Timothy C. Adams, noted Westchester Democrat, died Thursday at his sister’s home in Pound Ridge. He was brother to Miles Adams, former county superintendent of the poor, and served as Bedford town supervisor and later assistant superintendent of the poor after Miles Adams’s election. He was sixty five years old.
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Westchester County
Poundridge
Mr. Adams
Miles Adams
Bedford
John W Knowlton Dies at 34 in Marion
John W Knowlton son of the late Massachusetts Attorney General Knowlton died at his summer home in Marion at age thirty four. A Tufts College graduate and former Washington government clerk, he was a member of the law firm Cook Knowlton Brownell. He leaves a wife Rose Dyerenforth of Washington and two sons.
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New Bedford
Mass
John W. Knowlton
Knowlton
Massachusetts
Marion
Tufts College
Washington
Cook, Knowlton & Brownell
Rose Dyerenforth
Obituary notes for Abraham Steers and Warren L Fish
Abraham Steers aged seventy one died last Monday at his sister’s country home in Water Mill Long Island. A prominent lumber merchant he served as president of the New York Lumber Trade Association and held leadership roles with Harlem Club Metropolitan Museum of Art Harlem Savings Bank Mount Morris Bank New York Athletic Club and Harlem Bank Building Association. Warren L Fish inventor of devices including the first successful oil store died yesterday at his Newark home No 67 Roseville Avenue at eighty three.
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John Bottomiey
Long Island
Steers
New York Lumber Trade Association
Harlem Club
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Harlem Savings Bank
Mount Morris Bank
New York Athletic Club
Harlem Bank Building Association
Warren L. Fish
Roseville Avenue
Newark
John W. Wood
Church Missions Houses
Justin Kirreh
West Wth Street
Rhode Island
Gaston Wright
Jerusalem
Wright
Palestine
SUCCESSOR TO SISTER EDITH IN WISCONSIN ORDER
Kenosha Wis July Sister Katherine provincial of the Order of St Mary based in Memphis will likely be chosen to succeed mother general Sister Faith who left the mother house at Peekskill New York after becoming Roman Catholic recently. Sister Mary Claire of Kenosha is the ranking sister but the conference favored Sister Katherine as new head while the Kenosha provincial wished to remain in charge of Wisconsin home.
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Wis
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Order of St Mary
Memphis
Faith
Peekskill, N
Mary Claire
Order
Wisconsin
Readers debate a doggerel cat and mice verse
In letters to The Tribune two contributors discuss a macaronic poem Felis sedit by a hole and its continuation. They recall lines about a cat rushing and tearing mice and rats while mixing Latin, Italian, and English phrases. The letters date July 1908 from New York and Easton Massachusetts.
Felis Sedit: Old Macaronic Cat Tale Reprinted
A reader resends an old macaronic verse about a cat and mice, correcting a prior submission of Arthur M. Clark from Dubuque Iowa. The verses parody schoolyard Latin with playful mischief, a chaotic chase, and a concluding moral about avoiding punishment.
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Arthur M. Clark
Dubuque, Iowa
Mike Likes Variety In Politics From A 1908 Anecdote
A reader recalls a country worker named Mike who rejects Bryan in preference to Taft, explaining he can vote for Bryan any time but supports Taft this time. The anecdote suggests many voters judge candidates pragmatically, not by lifelong loyalties, reflecting broad political attitudes of July 15, 1908.
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Brownsville
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Taft
During the King's Pleasure on Criminal Lunacy Reform
Dr C Wright of Roxbury N Y voices approval of a Tribune commentary suggesting stricter control over release of criminally insane individuals. He cites a Broadmoor murder case and urges that only the Governor, after Lunacy Commission examination and unanimous expert opinion, should authorize release. The letter argues for significant legal changes to prevent freeing convicted murderers.
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Tribune
Dr. Meyers
Broadmoor
Harry K
Cortwright
M. D. Roxbury
N. Y
The Thaw Contagion Editorial to End Lawlessness
In a July 21 letter E K Van Benschoten of West Park on Hudson criticizes John A Van Rensselaer for threatening his mother and urges editorials against the Thaw trial’s influence. He calls the affair a contagion of lawlessness spreading across the country.
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John A. van Rensselaer
E. K van Benschoten
West Park-on-Hudson
How to Save Elm Trees from Beetles
Northampton city forester Christopher Clarke advises boiling water as the only safe effective method to kill elm beetles. He warns against kerosene or carbolic mixtures and scraping bark, noting beetles fly and pupae could survive to winter if not scalded.
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Boston Advertiser
Christopher Clarke
Northampton
Clarke
Forester Clarke
Weather Report Forecasts Calm Gulf and Light East Winds
A shallow barometric low over the central Caribbean moves into the Gulf of Mexico but is not expected to cause major Gulf Coast disturbances. Forecast notes local rains from the Rockies to the Atlantic, with two days of scattered showers eastward. Winds on the Atlantic Coast will be light to fresh easterly, Gulf Coast east to southeast, and Great Lakes easterly. Local records compare temperatures with last year and thirty-three years prior. Local forecast calls for more rain today and Sunday with light to fresh east winds.
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New England
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Weather Bureau
Tans BO
Missionary's Arrest in Greenwich and Port Chester Swindle
Dr Justin Kirreh a Syria n missionary claiming Turkish credentials was arrested in Port Chester on a suspected fraud scheme. He collected funds from wealthy New York Greenwich Port Chester Westport Bridgeport and South Norwalk clergy and lay donors claiming aid for leprosy patients. He used a forged backstory and a financier named A Foster Higgins as a supporter. Local clergy warned and investigators verify the impersonation and prior arrests in Springfield and New Haven.
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Turkey
United States
Port Chester
C. E B. Brugler
St. Peter's Church
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Bridgeport
South Norwalk
A. Foster Higgins
Springfield
New Haven
Kirreh
Emeen Sliby
Sliby
Dr. Kirreh
Workhouse for Noise Makers at West List Street
Magistrate Cornell, in night court, advised leniency for trivial infractions and opposed harsh crackdowns at Fort George. Two men, Thomas Smith and John Brennan, were sentenced to the Workhouse after arraignment for breaking wood pieces in the gutter on West List Street, a sentence he deemed not severe given their character.
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Woods
Police Department
Fort George
West List Street
Thomas Smith
First Avenue
John Brennan
West 47Th Street
Cleaning Rifle Accident Endangers Boy in Hollis
Edward Long seven-year-old son of Samuel Long of the detective bureau was accidentally shot yesterday in his Hollis Pocahontas avenue home. Herbert Brimpton fifteen, cleaning a rifle on the porch fired, the bullet pierced the right breast and lung. Brimpton is held on two thousand dollars bonds for examination today.
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Samuel Long
Detective Bureau
Pocahontas Avenue
Hollis
Herbert Blimpton
Long
Young Long
Brimpton
Lightning destroys Wade Mecum Springs hotel with guests fleeing
The Wade Mecum Springs hotel in Stokes County was struck by lightning early today and destroyed by fire. The blaze drove patrons from the building while still in night clothing. women were aided at nearby farms as emergency crews responded.
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Winston Balem
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Wade Mecum Springs
Stokes County
Derivation of Kern in 1900s dictionary discussion
The article uses Webster to trace Kern name origins. It contrasts Irish kerns and Anglo Saxon cwyrn a mill term. It argues Mr Kern likely derives from cwyrn meaning a grain mill, not from Irish combattant or churn.
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Charleston ‘News and Courier
Webster's International Dictionary
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Translating Coos of Doves From The Inter Ocean
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports Harvard Lape student Elvin Haggerty studied pigeons at the New York zoo while Professor Wallace Craig of the University of Chicago analyzed pigeon language from a barn roof. Craig finds social behavior in pigeons mirrors human society with soul kisses, cooing phrases, and husband wife dynamics referenced in The American Journal of Sociology.
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Chicago
Elvin EL. Haggerty
Harvard
New York Zoo
Baldy
Wallace Craig
University of Chicago
Craig
Jessor Crai
Cote
American Journal of Mociology
Mosquito Invasion Disrupts New York Low Flying Pest
Mosquito activity floods Manhattan amid rain and humidity. Joss sticks and citronella rise in demand as residents fight the pests in crowded areas from the Waldorf roof garden to the Hotel Astor. Officers report buzzing intrusions near the Tenderloin station as evidence of an unruly insect season.
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Waldorf Roof Garden
Hotel Astor Management
Savage
Tenderloin
Sanford Gladding and Walter Gladding Marriage Notice
Marriage notice states Sanford Gladding of Sherburne New York and Walter Gladding of unspecified address were joined in marriage on Tuesday July 21 at Momwich New York by Reverend Benton Grace officiating. Full names and addresses required for notices.
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Sanford Gladding
Momwich
N. Y
Benton. Grace
Albert PF. Gladding
Walter
Charlies H. Sanford
Sherburne
Obituary notices from The Tribune reprinted in Tri-Weekly Tribune
Notices list multiple deaths with dates and brief funeral details from towns like Pound Ridge Montclair Saratoga Springs and Farmingdale. Entries include Timothy C Adams George Sherman Batchelier Elizabeth Van Beuren and Mary Hanna Owen with service locations dates and times plus funeral home and cemetery notes. Also mentions Woodlawn Cemetery access and undertakers Frank E Campbell and transport options.
Subscriptions and Rates for The Tribune Almanac and News
The Tribune lists mail rates for domestic and international destinations including U S, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines with extra foreign postage. Various plans exist daily Sunday tri weekly weekly farmer and special editions with monthly and yearly terms and Canadian rates. Office addresses and European bureaus are provided for subscriptions and advertising.
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