Empress Evettie and Will of Napoleon on Trial in France
A lengthy gossip piece recounts Empress Evettie facing backlash in France over a decree for return of her husband’s private property now in national collections. It notes a 1865 will, a later lost will, and public anger led by Paris press. It also shifts to Lord Bagot saving Princess Louise, detailing Blithfield Hall customs and antiquarian treasures.
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Evettie
Paris
France
the Elyste
Matin
Prince Imperial
Elysée Palace
Biarritz
London
Somerset House
Napoleon II
Chislehurst
Mtnd
Lord Bagot
Lillian May
Baltimore
Edward
Duchess of Argyll
Canada
Marquis of
Lorne
Lord Lorne
Ottawa Lake
Prince of Wales
Staffordshire
Blrthfield Hall
Arthur Sullivan
Blithfield
Buithfield Hall
Stafford
Jerome Napoleon declines guardianship after Napoleon III papers vanish
At Chislehurst in 1872 Prince Jerome Napoleon ceases to guard the seventeen year old Prince Imperial after discovering sealed documents were emptied by Pietri. He concludes the missing papers including a 1865 will leave Empress Eugénie holder of power and the heir penniless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chislehurst
Jerome Napoleon
United States
Prince Imperial
Bonaparte
Eugénie
Prince Jerome Napoleon
Napoleon III
Pietri
Lfe
Jerome
Prince Imperial’s Seven Year Estate Trust Questioned
The Prince Imperial, coming of age, signed an agreement entrusting seven years of his Italian estate income to trustees chosen by the Empress. Months later he regrets the move, saying he was misled, and refuses to annul the arrangement, citing duty and propriety amid alleged intrigues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Imperial
Italy
Princess Bacchiocii
Comte de la Chapelle
Arbitration ruling restores Prince Imperial income and property
Three former Napoleon III ministers form a commission that annuls the 1865 will and orders restoration of the Prince Imperial’s estate income and a share of his father’s private property. Empress Eugénie locks the decree away, prompting the Prince’s decision to join the English army in Zululand where he died. The French government plans to appeal the ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Imperial
Eugénie
Napoleon III
Grandperret
Pinard
Busson-Billaut
Princess Bacchioch
Ukewise
England
France
Retter
Europe
Napoleon
Scotland Yard to be Cleared for New London Thoroughfare
The famed Scotland Yard, headquartering London police for nearly a century, will disappear to make way for a grand new route from Whitehall to Northumberland Avenue. Its storied site once housed a Scottish king’s palace hosting Margaret Tudor and later saw luminaries like Milton and Inigo Jones. The Yard became the police HQ in 1829 under Sir Robert Peel, replacing the older Charlie system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland Yard
London
Westmoreland
Margaret
Scotland
Henry VIII
England
James IV of
Flodden Field
Elizabeth
Milton
Oliver Cromwell
Inigo Jones
Christopher Wren
St. Paul’s Cathedral
John Vanbrugh
Blenheim
James II
Lord Herbert of
Cherbury
George Herbert
Tennyson
Josiah Wedewood
Metropolitan Police
Robert Peel
London “Charlies
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Grace E Cohan final decree divorces from Dowling
Grace Ethella Cohan wife of George M. Cohan received final decree of divorce from Justice Dowling in the Supreme Court after an interim ruling on March 1. She may resume her maiden name and gains custody of their six year old daughter Georgia Ethelia Cohan with standard paternal visit and yearly custody arrangement for one month. Married Atlanta City July 10, 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Ethella Cohan
George M. Cohan
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
Blanchard
Cohan
Georgia Ethelia Cohan
Cohans
Atlanta City
Century Theatre Club Meeting and Newark Academy Dinner
Business meeting of the Century Theatre Club at Hotel Astor at 2 30 p m. Class day at Barnard College in the afternoon. Dinner of Newark Academy at Hotel Astor at 7 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Century Theatre Club
Hotel Astor
Barnard College
Newark Academy
Prominent Arrivals at the Hotels Astor and Manhattan
A list of notable guests arriving at New York hotels includes Commissioner Frank M. Baker from Owego N Y at the Hotel Astor. Baron von Scorkendorf in Caracas at the Astor. Captain J T Herron of the U S Cavalry West Point at the Astor. Colonel C G Woodward at Fifth Avenue. W B Kibbes from Albany at Gil Bey. J E Cope Morton from Philadelphia at Hollan d. W P Eno from Washington at Manhattan. Dr J Marshall Flint of the University of California at Netherland. Manuel A Sanches at EOA. Edward Bok at Wolcott Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astor Ene
Frank M. Baker
Owego
N. Y
ASTOR
Baron von Scorkendorf
Caracas
J. T. Herron
United States Cavalry
West Point
Fifth Avenue
C. G. Woodward
A. Gilbey
W. BH. Kibbes
Albany
Holland
J. E. Cope-Morton
Philadelphia
Manhattan
W. P. Eno
Washington
Washington, Netherland—Dr. J. Marshall Flint, University of California
Savoy
Fuerlein
Berlin
Victoria
Manuel A. Sanches
Alse
EOA
Wolcott
Edward Bok
Weather Report Official Record and Forecast
Washington June 6 barometric low over western plateau crossed the Rockies and central Kansas bringing showers to the Dakotas Iowa Nebraska and Central Illinois. Eastern districts fair with rain in Northern New England and New York. temperatures risen east of the Mississippi and fallen in middle Mississippi and the Dakotas. Atlantic coast will be fair with higher temps. interior valleys show showers. showers likely Saturday. Winds: fresh west in New England and Middle Atlantic. fresh south along South Atlantic. light to moderate winds elsewhere. Local record shows yesterday's high 65 and low 54 with warmer today and showers Saturday.
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Washington
Rocky Mountains
Kansas
Dakotas
Iowa
Nebraska
Hinois
New England
New York
Mississippi
Dekotas
Atlantic Coast
Lake Region
Middle Atlantic
East Gulf Coast
Maine
Warner
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Weather Bureau
West Winda
Auction of Weeks autograph collection yields varied Civil War era letters
The Merwin-Clayton Sales Company on East 24th Street hosted a lively auction of William R. Weeks's autograph collection. Bidders paid up to $150 for a Washington land survey and $75 for Poe's letter, with items spanning Pius V to Napoleonic material and papers by Adams, Jefferson, and Lincoln drawing strong interest from regional buyers including a rumored Hearst agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merwin-Clayton Sales Company
East 24Th Street
Wiliam R. Weeks
Broadway
Chestat
Pius V
Rudyard Kipling
Pius
Clement XI
Edgar Allen Poe
Fordham
Louis XIV
France
William Penn
George Washington
Frederick County
Virginia
Robert Lindsay
Washington
Hamer
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
Adams
Frederick Dellus
Johnson
America
New England
James H. Manning
Albany
Roger Williams
William Pepperell
Queen Victoria
Henry Intvid Thoreau
Dodd Mead & Co
Jefferson Davis
Karet
Paige
Napoleon
Italy
Nordica Plans American Theatre Venture in Wagner Realm
Mme. Nordica sails to Havre with sister Mrs. G A Walker to study Bayreuth theatre models. She aims to develop American women's singing talent by starting a new theatre here focused first on Wagner with Walter Damrosch as conductor hopeful. She pledges health time and money to the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Nordica
G. A. Walker
Havre
la Savoie
America
Paris
Bayreuth
Wagner
Walter Damrosch
Leopold Dammrosch
Pocahontas on the Stage at the New Colonial Theatre
Norfolk reports the debut of Pocahontas a seventeenth century drama by G F Viett at the New Colonial Theatre Austin Webb portrayed John Smith Louise Carter Pocahontas in opening night scenes where Pocahontas rescues Smith A Ponca war dance accompanies the Jamestown set piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
G. F. Viett
New Colonial Theatre
Austin Webb
John Smith
Louise Carter
Pocahontas
Smith
Jamestown
Yale Divinity Prizes Awarded At New Haven
The Yale Divinity School announced its commencement awards with the Mersick prize for best address awarded to Hugh E. Brown of Dayton Washington who also won two other prizes. Other prize nominees include K Millbury Tracy Mills New Brunswick Beloit Hartville Broadhead Milford Nebraska Hinton Virginia Dallastown Des Moines Brooklyn Iowa and Des Moines Iowa among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Man
Milford
Neb
E. E. Burtner
Hinton
B. D. Rojahn
Dallastown
Penn
C. M. Calderwood
Brooklyn, Iowa
E. B. Youts
Des Moines
Iowa
Need of character in public life at Monmouth College
Theodore P. Shonts in his Monmouth College commencement address urges high moral character for leaders and warns against drastic laws that kill growth. He lauds Roosevelt and Hughes for integrity, cautions against overbroad regulation, and advocates fair commissions with accountable oversight to curb corporate excess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monmouth, ML
Monmouth College
Theodore P. Shonts
Roosevelt
Hughes
New York
Staten Island Academy Class Day Marks Partington’s Farewell
Class Day exercises at Staten Island Academy in New Brighton mark the school year’s end and the retirement of head master Frederick E. Partington. The article notes the academy’s long service to the community, its growth under Partington, and the Arthur Winter Memorial Library established in 1885 by William Winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staten Island Academy
New Brighton
New York
Frederick E. Partington
Partington
Staten Island
Peetheepists
Washington
Winter
Academy
George Wilam Curtis
Warns Against Yellow Journalism at St Marys School
Bishop Burgess warned graduates of St Marys School in the Cathedral of the Incarnation against indecency lies and immorality in newspapers. He urged reading as education focusing on books, literature, art, history and union history while avoiding problem novels and yellow journalism. An audience member mocked with a childish refrain during his remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph
The
Tribune
Garden City
Long Island
Brooklyn Law School graduates at fifth annual commencement
Ninety three degrees were presented by President Almon Gunnison at the Majestic Theatre Fulton street. Justice Gaynor spoke urging modesty industry and faithfulness. Dean W P Richardson awarded prizes for scholarship. C G Bachrach won 140 dollars for top junior exam, Meyer Boskey second with 100 dollars?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almon Gunnison
Brooklyn Law School
St. Lawrence University
Majestic Theatre
Fulton Street
Justice Gaynor
Appellate Division
The
Supreme Cour
W. P. Richardson
C. G. Bachrach
Meyer Boskey
H. A. Mahoney
W. H. Dey
Syracuse University Prosperes at Annual Trustees Meeting
John D. Archbold of New York presided as Syracuse University trustees met. Chancellor Day announced six new buildings and a large stadium under construction and the year marked the greatest in the university’s history. Commencement will award 366 degrees next Wednesday. James G. Shepherd of Scranton was elected to fill a vacancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
John D. Archbold
New York
Syracuse University Board of Trustees
James G. Shepherd
Scranton
Penn
New Haven Railed to Sign Large Bond Issue Names 14 Assistants
The New York New Haven Hartford Railroad directors appointed fourteen assistant secretaries to sign and number 29 million dollars in bonds in 100 franc denominations for European investors. Clerks already in the executive offices are at work daily. After signing is complete, the assistants will resign and Major Isaac Bromley plus a treasurer’s representative will travel to Paris to finalize the transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
John G. Parker
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Isaac Bromley
Paris
Royals Attend Large Buckingham Palace Court
London audiences fill Buckingham Palace for the third court of the season with a notable American presence including Mrs. Frank Wiberg Miss Wiberg and Miss Mary Wiberg of Cincinnati Mrs. Melville Post of West Virginia Mrs. Eugene Parsons of New York and Miss Drexel of Philadelphia along with King Edward Queen Alexandra and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Frank Wiberg
Wiberg
Mary Wiberg
Cincinnati
Melville Post
West Virginia
Eugene Parsons
New York
Drexel
Anthony Drexel
Philadelphia
Edward
Alexandra
Prince and Princess of Wales
Mackay Gift to Nevada University
Reno June 6 The Mackay School of Mines becomes the Nevada University mining department funded by the Postal Telegraph Company president. Mr Mackay will create a 120000 dollar fund to pay mining faculty and cover landscaping costs for beautifying university grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Nev
Mackay School of Mines
University of Nevada
Postal Telegraph Company
Mackay
Dodge Home Going To Make Way For Italian Garden
The historic William E. Dodge house on Madison avenue is being demolished to make space for an Italian garden between J. Pierpont Morgan’s house and his son. Morgan plans a great gallery for his renowned private art collection, much of which is housed in London. the garden will feature formal design, statuary, and a seven decades long philanthropic heritage associated with the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William E. Dodge
Madison Avenue
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
London
36Th Street
Anson Phelps Stokes
Sith Street
Dodge
Europe
Nassau Street
Wall Street
William Street
Uptown
Broadway
Harlem
East 125Th Street
West
12Th Street
Bronx
158Th Street
Washington
F Street
Newark
Frederick N. Sommer
Broad Street
the Tribune
Brussels
Montague de la Cour
Ofice of the Tribune
Danes Ing House
Strand
Gould & Portmans
New Oxford Street
American Express
Haymarket
Thomas Cock & Son
Ludgate
Cheam Brown, Shipley & Co
Pall Mall
Speyer Bros
Lothbury
Paris
John Monroe & Co
Scribe
John Wanamaker
Avenue de l'Opera
Nice
Crédit Lyonnais
Geneva
Lombard, Odler & Co
Union Bank
Florence
French, Lemon & Co
Tornabuoni
Maquay & Co
Milan
Saarbach
Te Montforte
Hamburg
American Express Company
Noah Ferdinandstrasse
Mayence
Saarbach’s
Obituary: Rev Dr J H Hand dies at Long Island Hospital
The Rev Dr J Howard Hand an elderly member of the New York East Conference and assistant pastor at St Mark s M E Church Brooklyn died of heart disease at Long Island College Hospital. Born in Camden N J fifty seven years ago he graduated Wesleyan University in 1873 and was ordained in 1875. He preached in Watertown Astoria Riverhead Southampton Freeport Long Island and Lenox Road Brooklyn. He spent recent years with Title Guarantee and Trust Company. He leaves a wife and three sons.
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J. H. Hand
J. Howard Hand
New York East
Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Mark’s Methodist Episcopal Church
Beverly Road
Ocean Avenue
Brooklyn
Long Island College Hospital
Hand
Camden
N. J
Wesleyan University
Watertown
Astoria
Riverhead
Southampton
Feeport
Long Island
Lenox Road Methodist Episcopal Church
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Charles G. Baylor Dead at 82 in Providence
Charles G. Baylor editor and author of a Georgia address on constitutional reforms affecting the negro race died at his home in Providence in his eighty third year. He once wrote editorials for several Boston court venues. He is survived by a wife and seven children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Charles G. Baylor
Georgia
Boston Court
Colonel Andrew A Bremmer Dies at Manhasset Long Island
Colonel Andrew A Bremmer oldest ex commander of the Seventh Regiment died at his Manhasset home. Born December 31 1512 he joined Morton Hremmer steel balancers and later started an iron foundry. Survived by two daughters and two granddaughters funeral Monday 11 at Christ Church Greenwood Cemetery inscription noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew A. Bremmer
Manhasset
Long Island
Bremmer
Morton & Hremmer
Christ Church, Manhasset
Greenwood Cemetery
Bremner
Manhesset
Long I
Andrew A. Bremner
Christ Church
East 34Th St
Greenwood
Notable Bank Director’s Wife Dies in Brooklyn Hospital
Mrs. Jessie Bishop Knox Burckett, wife of Walter I. Burckett and second vice-president of the State Bank, and a Dominion Securities director, died after a brief illness in a Brooklyn hospital. She was born in Scotland forty three years ago and left a husband, a son, and a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Bishop Knox Burckett
Walter I. Burckett
The
State Bank
Dominion Securities Company
Brooklyn
Burckett
Scotland
Buckett
Centenary Firms Hold Reunion Dinner in Philadelphia
Representatives of the Association of Centenary Firms and Corporations gathered at the Hellevue Stratford for a reunion dinner. Eligible members are firms established for a century or more, with W. W. Schieffelin & Co. Pierson & Co. and J. H. Woolman & Co. of New York among those represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Philadelphia
Hellevue Stratford
W. W. Schieffelin & Co
Pierson & Co
J. H. Woolman & Co
New York
Marriages in The Tribune Republished in Tri-Weekly
Notices list several June 1907 marriages with full names and locations such as Mary Howell Crandall to Merton W. Hanfard in New York City, Marguerite Voorhees to Herman Lutz in Morristown and Stuttgart, Grace Tiffany to Charlies Maisch in New York, Helen Reynolds to Francis Reynolds in St John the Divine crypt, and Alice Myers to Charles Pond in New Rochelle, with instruction that notices must carry full name and address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hansord—Crandall
Davis G Wylia D
West 120Th St
Mary Howell Crandall
F. W. Crandall
Merton W. Hanfard
Lutz—Voorhees
William Russell Bennett
Marguerite
George Emmett Voorhees
Morristown
N. J
Herman Lutz
Stuttgart
Germany
Maisch—Tiffany
Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
New York
J. Wesley Johnston
D. D
Wallace Macmullen
Grace Comfort
O. H. Tiffany
Eliza Bruce Hamilton
Charlies O. Maisch
Perry—Reynolds
Death notices from The Tribune republication list
Several obituaries published June 1907 for William H. Bean Andrew A. Bremner Francis D. Carleton Paul J. Dachtera Alden Graves Eva Ledegar and others. Notices include residence details funeral plans interment locations and nearby paper republication instruction.
Funeral notices from Brooklyn and New York area
A long column lists funeral notices and memorials for residents in Brooklyn and nearby areas. Entries name the deceased, relatives, and funeral details including addresses, dates, and times from June 4 to June 8 1907. Interment locations include Holy Cross Cedar Hill Cypress Hills and St Catharine's Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Ave
Brooklyn
Cypress Hills
Mitchell
Addie Florence
Henry H. Mitchell
Feneral
Jeff Aye
Murray
Ellen Lynch Murray
Martin P. Lynch
8Th St
St. Catharine's Church
Fort Hamilton Ave
40Th St
Lewis St
St. John the Baptist Church
Willoughby and
Lewis Aves
Holy Cross
Smith
Anna M. Corner
Henry R. Smi Imner
Oxford St
St. Josepha Roman Catholic Church
Pacife St
Vanderbilt Ave
Tribune Postal and Subscription Rates and Offices
The notice outlines mailing rates for the Tribune and related publications including daily, tri weekly, weekly farmer, and almanac, with domestic and foreign destinations and multiple international offices and hotel reading rooms. It lists city offices in New York and overseas access points for subscribers and advertisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mexico
Manhattan
Bronx
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Tribune Almanac
Tribune Index
Tribune
New York City
Hue
Europe
Universal Postal Union
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Third Court OF London
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Richmond Borough
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Thee Ultramarine Works
Kretscherville
Burnett
Tri-Weekly
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Macon St
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Séth
Warren, R
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Dachtera
Paul J. Pdachtera
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Madison Ave
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Richmond Hill
Alden Graves
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Jefferson Ave
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Cal
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M'Cabe
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Ireland
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Richard H. van Cleef
Charles F. Zentgraf
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Munich
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Grand Hotel
Nuremberg
Wurttemberghof
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Heidelberg
Hotel Belleet
Switzerland
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Vaustand
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Euler
Basil
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