Princes and Estates Shape Scots Legacy Amid Family Moves
Historical notes describe the shift of Blythswood and Douglas properties in Scotland as Rev Sholto Douglas becomes Lord Blythswood and passes Mains and Dumbartonshire holdings to Archibald Campbell's line, with the estate history tracing to Margaret Douglas and the Douglas kin. The Blythswood mansion, damaged by fire, and Queen Victoria's visits frame a lineage ending with General Barrington Campbell.
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Mains
Douglas
Sholto Douglas
Blythswood
Dumbartonshire
Archibald Campbell
Margaret Douglas of
Archibald
Duke of Douglas
Archibald Douglas
North Calder River
Pagets
Mary Queen of Scots
Clyde
Renfrew
Walter Scott
Queen Victoria
Blyrthswood
Lord Blythswood
Douglas Support
Barrington Campbell
Channel Islands
Scandalous Berlin Jewel Theft Linked to Wartensleben Family
The article reports a mysterious Pearl necklace robbery at Berlin society circles tied to Countess von Wartensleben and her husband General Wartensleben. A newspaper piece alleged the earrings were stolen by Count Botho Eulenburg with motive tied to family debts and luxury. The libel suit pits aristocratic figures against a Berlin editor amid accusations of a vouched lover and a broader Eulenburg scandal.
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Eulen- Althauch
Philip Zu
Berlin
Lebre
Gu Bulebure
Alexander von Wartensleben
Countess von Wartensleben
Countess von Wartensben
Count Fothoe Gu Eulenburg
Rothe Zu Eulenburg
Leopold Kalnein
Hussars
Alexandrine Zu Eulenburg
Count Kalnein
Count Botho Eulenbere
Wartensleben
Botho Eulenbyre
Count Kalvein
Count Botho
Parsons Peerage Marks Old Lineage Shift at Blythswood
Rev Sholto Douglas becomes Baron Blythswood but must change his name to Campbell under Birthswood estate rules. The Campbell Douglas family lineage traces to Sir Colin Campbell of Lochow and ties to the Duke of Argyll. Through 18th century marriages the Blythswood estate passed among brothers, with name changes reflecting inheritance.
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Duke of Argyll
Colin Campbell of
Lochow
Margaret Drummond
Annabella
Robert III
Scotland
John Campbell
John Douglas
Maine
Dumbartonshire
Colin
Blythswood
Renfrewshire
James
Mains
Douglas
Campbell
Wenonyah
Bia
Iptasr
Imre Kirally Receives Honors At King Edward Levee
Imre Kirally, director general of the Franco English Exhibition in London, is expected to soon receive the Victorian Order for his work promoting the Entente Cordiale. At the levee, decorations from the French government and King Leopold were conferred with the King’s permission, praising his efforts to make the Earl’s Court show a success.
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Edward
St. James's Palace
Imre Kirally
London
Earl's Court
Leopold
Bolossy
Antola Kiralfy
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Change in New Theatre Lumens Plans Narrow Seating Capacity
Carrére Hastings reports removing objections to initial drawings and shrinking capacity to eighteen hundred via a drop wall that hides rear rows when not full. The New Theatre will feature nineteen lower-floor rows, expects a 12 month ahead opening, and a likely American permanent manager choice this fall.
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Carrére & Hastings
Empire Theatre
Mr. Hastings
Morris to Run Lincoln Square Theatre Five Years
An agreement of Saturday night transfers Lincoln Square Theatre to William Morris and Charles E. Blaney to run as a first class music hall for five years. Lincoln Square reopens next month with Harry Lauder likely to appear under Morris management.
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William Morris
Charles E. Blaney
Lincoln Square Theatre
Morris
American Theatre
Ivan Abramson
Grand Opera Company
Lincoln Square
Harry Lauder
Mr. Blaney
The
Spooners
Mr. Blavey
Theatrical News Highlights From New York Stages
The Grand Street Theatre opens the 1908 09 season under A H Woods with Convict 999. George M Cohan resumes The Yankee Prince at Knickerbocker Theatre in a week. Milliken writes The Divorce of the Belmonts for next season. Grace Merritt may join vaudeville. The New York Theatre to reopen with Cohan Harris minstrels. Benefiit for Hebrew Infants Asylum in Arverne. Hazel Cox to appear in School Days revival.
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Grand Street Theatre
A. H. Woods
Mr. Woods
George M. Cohan
Knickerbocker Theatre
F. Milliken
Willam Hawtrey and
Peace Conference opens in London with 360 delegates
The seventeenth Universal Peace Conference begins in London with 360 delegates from 117 societies in sixteen countries. Americans include Lloyd E. Chamberlain and Belva Lockwood among others. President Roosevelt praised in Westminster Abbey sermon as a prophet of international peace.
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London
America
Massachusetts State Board of Trade
Lloyd E. Chamberlain
Brockton
Charles E. Adam
Lowell
Walstein E. Chester
Brookline
Richard L. Gay
Boston
National Association For the Promotion of Peace
Washington
Belva A. Lockwood
E. Brinton
World’s Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Mary R. Phillips
Peace Society of New York
Carl C. Lorentzen
Gertrude Hirst
Intercollegiate Peace Association of
Cerro Gordo
Norman Baldwin
Amherst College
George Falk
American Peace Society of Boston
Edwin D. Mead
F. L. Godspeed
George F. Lowell
Mary B. Seabury
Helen H. Seabury
Benjamin H. Hibbard
Philip
Rowley
W. 8. Leland
Lucy S. Patrick
Charles E
Beals
Alice Rowley
James L. Tyron
Benjamin F. Trueblood
Sophia Lyman Pratt
Marian Pratt
Edward F. Sanderson
A. C
Sewell
Hannah S. Wingate
A. B. Farquhar
Florence E. Trueblood
Robert F
Raymond
Stanley R. Yarnall
William
Barton
Hereford
Horton
Congress
International Bureau
David Lloyd-George
Trafalgar Square
Westminster Abbey
Carlisle
John William Diggle
Roosevelt
President Roosevelt Plans Harvard Pace For Kermit
President Roosevelt met with Harvard University’s dean to map a course for Kermit Roosevelt to take advanced work during his freshman year at Harvard starting this fall. Kermit, who finished Groton School this year, will join his father for an East Africa hunting trip next April. Quentin Roosevelt begins summer study tomorrow with tutor Waldo Parker assisting for the remainder of the season.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Harvard University
Kermit
Groton School
Harvard
Quentin
Waldo Parker
Archibald
Mourning Bishop Potter Across Episcopalian Churches
The death of Bishop Potter prompted black and purple draped pulpits in many Protestant Episcopal churches and a prayer for afflicted persons. Bishops and clergy filled vacancies as rectors were away, with discussions of Potter burial at St John the Divine but no funeral date set until Bishop Greer returns around August 15.
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Potter
Greer
New York
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
England
Festival of Pastimes at Brighton Beach Three Day Event
Brighton Beach announces a three day Festival of Pastimes starting July 29. Day one features water sports, day two focuses on children with a floral parade from Sunday school pupils, and day three offers miscellaneous diversions. Henry J. Pain to present The Destruction of Jerusalem exhibition.
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Brighton Beach
Henry J. Pain
Jerusalem
Prominent Arrivals at Major Hotels Across Cities
Bishop Thomas B. Neeley from Buenos Aires, R. B. Job from St John's, N. F., G Breslin pr.G. EB. Dixon from London, Captain H. P. Hathaway, A. A. Holland, Wolfgang Job from Frankfurt, MURRAY HILL guest W Walker of Glasgow, Senator H. E. Pugh of Wisconsin, William Strang from Glasgow at Waldorf Astoria.
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Albemarle
Thomas B. Neeley
Buenos Aires
R. B. Job
St John's
N. F. Breslin
G. EB. Dixon
London
H. P. Hathaway
Weather Report and Forecast for Midweek July
Official Weather Bureau record notes moderate temperatures this week with rain in Middle and Southern districts for three days and fair skies in the Northern states. Sunday brought rain and thunderstorms from the Mississippi and Ohio valleys to the mid Atlantic and Gulf coasts, with a sharp temperature drop in the Missouri Valley.
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Washington
Mississippi
Ohio
South Atlantic
Gulf
Missouri
Atlantic
East Gulf
West Gulf
Grest Lakes
Lake Superior
European
Grand Banks
Cats Splitting Family Over Cat Toss to Public
Dr. William H. Hale invites Brooklyn readers to adopt his wife’s cats with a $50 reward for the 25 cats taken as a bundle and smaller bonuses for individual cats. Mrs. Hale, who feeds and shelters the felines at No First Place, Brooklyn, plans home checks and collars before fall.
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Brooklyn
William H. Hale
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Buried by the Side of His Horse Phil Sheridan
Warren W. Philips a wealthy Essen farmer fifteen miles south of Pittsburg left a will naming his favorite gray horse Phil Sheridan as his burial companion. He planned burial in a cemetery but the will halted the proceedings to allow the will’s opening.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Warren W. Philips
Essen
Philips
Phil Sheridan
Newport Social Notes Highlight Summer Colony Scene
The Newport lawn tennis season opens with an invitation contest at the Newport Casino under Mrs. Barger-Wallach. Entries include Mrs. Lorillard Spencer Jr and Miss Therese Iselin. Numerous luncheons and visits mark a busy colonial social calendar with gatherings aboard the Cristobal and at Belcourt and Pinard Cottages. Alfred Vanderbilt and Reginald Vanderbilt arrive aboard Wayfarer as summer engagements continue through early August.
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the Tribune
Newport
R. L
Newport Casino
Barger-Wallach
Lorillard Spencer, Jr
Eugene S. Reynal
Therese Iselin
Anna Sands
Nora Iselin
Edna Barger
Mary Bush
Louise Scott
Freda Paine
Oliver H
R Livingston Beeckman
Lands End
Elisha Dyer
Paul Rainey
Philip Lydig
James RB. Haggin
George Rose
Seth Barton French
Hamilton Fish Webster
Joseph Harriman
Edward J. Berwind
C. Ledyard Blair
New York
Diana
H. Bertram Whitman
Boston
Henry Barton Jacobs
N. L. R. Edgar
J. M. Waterbury, Jr
Jay Coogan
George Pollock
Herbert M. Harriman
Berger's
Arthur Curtis James
Henry Redmond
Franklin A. Plummer
Cristobal
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Reginald C Vanderbilt
Alfred Vanderbilt
New York Hotels Signal Shift in Trade Confidence
New York City hotel managers say business has picked up versus a year ago with St. Regis noting higher receipts and the Manhattan reporting stable wine sales amid a shift toward luncheon trade. London peers warn of excess capacity as Astor expands to become one of the world’s largest hotels.
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United States
New York City
Mr. Foster
The
St. Regis
London
Lord Bessborough
Gordon Hotels Company
Kramer
Carlton
Foster
New York
Manhattan
Lower Fifth Avenue
Hotel Astor
Astor
Waldorf-Astoria
Lenox villa owners oppose new high school plan
Lenox Mass July 26 Villa owners denounce the town’s adoption of a new high school design by John Greenleaf saying it clashes with Lenox’s Colonial character. Backers include George Baty Blake and Grenville L Winthrop among others while a school board minority and a labor leader opposed the plan. The dispute sparked indignation among cottagers as a large Trinity Church congregation attended services.
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Tribune
Lenox
Mass
John ©. Greenleaf
Richard C. Greenleaf
George Baty Blake
George Winthrop Folsom
Henry P. Jaques
Grenville L. Winthrop
Frederick S. Delafield
Trinity Church
Carroll Jackson
Richard Gambrit
Robert Winthrop
Hamilton Fish Kean
John E. Parsons
Lindsay Fairfax
William A. Bradford
George W. Folsom
Francis D. Fitzgibbon
William D. Sloane
John H. Hammond
Mary Shotter
Bertha Hamilton
Charles Wilson
London
Lieutenant Wilson
William E. Doane
Stockbridge
William Biddle
Emily Biddle
Great Lakes
Samuel York
New Haven
Charles 8. Mellen
Btockbridge
Richard Gambrill
Newport
Petersburg
Shadow Brook
Lindsley
Roberts. Brewster
Emily Tremaine
Cazenovia
N. Y
Charles R. Shepard
Yvonne Shepard
J. F. Schenck
Adirondacks
Ethelwyn
Francis Dana Winslow
Margaret Winslow
Washington
Wireless Aids Kaiser Wilhelm II In Dense Plymouth Fog
Captain Coppers, commander of the Kaiser Wilhelm II, reports wireless signals guided landing of mails passengers and baggage near Plymouth during a dense fog on the eastward trip. He confirms receipt of fog signals via Marconi station at the Lizard and successful landing at 4:40 to 5:35 p m with tenders awaiting outside Plymouth.
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Coppers
Lloyd Hiner
New York
Ine
Plymouth
Channel
Scilly
Wolf Rock
Lizard
Marconi
Dystone
Lloyd
Eddystone
Plymornth
Saved officer gets $50,000 in will
Waukesha Wisconsin July 26. For carrying a wounded officer on his back to medical aid has brought its reward to Harry Dailey. A month ago he received a letter from a lawyer directing him to meet the executor of the estate of a British officer who once saved his wife from a private in the ranks. Dailey upon his arrival in England received one third of the officer's estate of $150,000.
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the Tribune
Waukesha
Wis
Harry Dailey
Dailey
England
President Snows Brother Dead
Leslie E. Snow brother of E G Snow president of Home Insurance Co of New York died at his St Louis home. Free was president of the Fire Insurance Protection Bureau and member of Delafield and Snow insurance agents.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Leslie E. Snow
E. G. Snow
The
Home Insurance Couny of
New York
Free
Fire Insurance Protection Bureau
Delafield & Snow
James Foster Prominent Broker Dies at Quogue Summer Home
James Foster president of James Foster & Son Insurance brokers died yesterday at his Quogue Long Island summer home. Born in Montreal he moved to New York in 187 and built a long career in insurance. He served with Courtlandt Palmer estate trustee of City Savings Bank director of International Pulp Company Williamsburg Power Company and held multiple civic memberships. He married Emily Hart in 1875 and is survived by three children. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
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James Foster & Son
Broadway
Quogue
Long Island
Montreal
Canada
Elizabeth Robinson Foster
Foster
Courtlandt Palmer
Europe
Victoria Volunteer Rifles
Emily Hart
Brooklyn
Berkeley Place
City Savings Bank of Brooklyn
International Pulp Company
Williamsburg Power Company
American Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Brooklyn Institute
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Montauk and
Marine and Field Clubs
Loeb to Take Vacation at Maine and Wyoming Camps
Oyster Bay reports secretary Wilfrd Loeb Jr Roosevelt's secretary will leave the President next Friday for a month of recreation. He begins with a camp stay in Maine, then moves to a Jackson Hole Wyoming spot for roughing it. He plans big game hunting and brook trout fishing.
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Oyster Bay
Loeb
Roosevelt
Maine
Jackson's Hole
Wyoming
Death notices from The Tribune and Tri-Weekly Tribune
Died notices list Foster James Smith Sydney H Walbridge Anna H Batcheller Paris France July 1908 funeral dates Milford Conn New Rochelle Emma Purdy Clark Glen Cove Anna Walbridge Brooklyn Clinton Remsen streets Secomb Presbyterian Church Brooklyn July 27 10 30 am. Woodlawn Cemetery access via Harlem line Grand Street stations price and office contact included.
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Batcheller
Paris
France
George Sherman Batcheller
International Supreme Court of Appeals
Egypt
Circular St
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Clark
New Rochelle
Emma Purdy
Frack
Foster
James Foster
Montreal
Smith
Sydney Hoyt Smith
Brooklyn
N. J
Panwood
Secom Presbyterian Church
Clinton and Remsen Sts
Frank E Campbell Private and Public Ambulances
Chelsea based ambulance service listing Frank E Campbell at 241 3 West 234 Street Chapela offering private and public ambulance transport with telephone 1324 Chelsea.
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Frank E. Campbell
West
St. Chapela
Chelsea
Applications of Selected Aspirants for Various Positions
The New York Tribune announces a newly installed file at its Uptown Office for the applications of selected aspirants for various positions. Office hours are from 8 am to 6 pm at 1364 Broadway between 36th and 37th streets.
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THE
New-York Tribune
Broadway
36Th
37Th Streets
Tribune Subscription Rates and Foreign Mail Availability
The Tribune announces subscription options with domestic rates for daily, Sunday, tri weekly, and weekly Farmer editions. It details mail delivery to the United States, Mexico, and select foreign destinations, plus office addresses and international bureaus.
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Tribune
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Mexico
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Bronx
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Tribune Almanac
Tribune Index
New Yor City
Abova
Sunday Tribune
Europe
Universal Postal
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John Monroe & Co
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