Amusements and Vaudeville Listings at City Theaters
A dense schedule lists show times and venues including Daly’s Girls Eden Musee World in Wax Mackett Witching Hour Hammerstein’s Vaudeville Knickerbocker Yankee Prince Lyric Wolf Dew Amsterdam Merry Widow New York Mary’s Lamb Servant in the House Gay Musician Rostock’s Steeplechase and more with varied performances and prices. The listings reflect a bustling theater scene with multiple venues like Casino Knickerbocker Lyric and Savoy offering acts through the evening hours.
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Asino
Vauéeville
Jama Park
Rostock’s
Steeplechase
Dreamlané
Brighton Beach Park
Daly
Eden Musee
Mackett
Hammerstein
Baaklem Casino
Knickerbocker
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Dew York
SAVOY
Wallace
New York Daily Tribune Update Notice
The 1908 edition lists Tribune ownership by The Tribune Association a New York corporation with offices at Nassau Street New York. Coden Mills serves as president and Nathaniel Tuttie as secretary and treasurer with the officers based at the newspaper office.
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New York
Tribune Rustiding
Nassau Street
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Triple alliance fears and political jockeying dominate morning news
International tensions rise as Britain Russia and France move toward alignment fueling German concerns. Domestic counts show Roosevelt Taft warnings to Panama and anti gambling bills advancing. Weather expected fair and warmer with highs near 72.
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New York
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Charles W. Morse
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Honduras
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Gery
Steel Trust
W. E. Corey
Fischer-Hansen
Colonel Watterson Praises Bryan and Democratic Realignment
The piece reviews Colonel Watterson’s reconciliation with Mr. Bryan, praising Bryan as the party’s mainstay and arguing Watterson previously misunderstood Bryan. It notes Watterson’s Lincoln and Omaha visits framing Bryan as central to the party, and his editorial praise in The Courier Journal.
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Neb
Omaha
Lexington
Kentucky
Louisville Courier Journal
Missouri River
Mr. Bryan
Courier Journal
Colonel Watterson
Mr. Bryen
Democratic Party
Old Men of the Sea Split Democrats Over Cleveland Bryan
The piece casts Cleveland and Bryan as dangerous influences within the Democratic party. It accuses both men of self serving politics and moral posturing while urging reconciliation and contrition from Bourbon Democrats. It references Colonel Watterson and The Courier Journal as voices in the debate.
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Watterson
Courier-Journal
Senator Foelker and Governor Hughes in anti gambling victory
The piece lauds Senator Foelker for risking health to back anti gambling bills and credits Governor Hughes with leadership and moral authority. It argues Foelker’s sacrifice symbolizes public duty, predicts positive health outcomes, and credits Hughes with unselfish motives, predicting lasting prestige and strong public support for his leadership.
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Foelker
Hughes
Brooklyn
Albany
Senate
International neighborliness in royal Russia visit
The King and Queen of England visit the Russian emperor and empress without incident praising friendly ties across nations. The piece argues that international neighborliness should overcome disputes in government and stresses the unusual openness shown by Nicholas II during the journey, noting the visit strengthens private and public ties without promising treaties or alliances.
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England
Edward VII
Nicholas II
Esthenia
America
Russia
Reval
Peaceful thaw strengthens ties between two great powers
The passage notes appreciable impetus toward neighborly feelings and peaceful relations between the two nations. It asserts good relations have been promoted and that constitutional freedom in Russia has advanced more in recent years than in the previous century.
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Russia
Brewers Unite Against Saloons for Temperance Reform
An association representing vast brewery interests pledges to abolish dives and promote temperance, signaling a broad shift in stance toward liquor. The piece notes brewing interests may curb trade despite profit, stressing potential impact on prohibition momentum and urging full commitment.
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Milwaukee
Minnesota
America
Minneapolis
New Jersey Tax Muddle Stirs Board of Assessors
The state board failed to confirm rail road property valuations in Hudson County within the legal period. Discrepancies between Hendrickson’s higher 1906 07 figures and earlier assessments spark debate about equity and possible court battles. Delays could delay revenue for the entire state amid a costly assessors system.
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New Jersey
Hendrickson
Jersey City
Hoboken
State Board
New York
Board of Assessors
Racing insider views on gambling ban and political missed chance
A noted racing man argues that abolition of the special penalty for racetrack gambling will drive away bettors who fund attendance. He notes the public loses steadily at tracks and criticizes the Assembly for squashing the McCarren bill, hoping for its passage next session without GOP opposition. The piece ends with an abrupt, unrelated claim about breaking the morphine habit.
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Assembly
McCarren
Pages
Exhibition races spark abstinence joke in auto racing tale
A peculiar column notes a penitent driver planning a tour of exhibition races in 60 and 90 horsepower cars after an earlier fatal crash. It also lampoons political loyalty, gas meter honesty, and unrelated European jubilee pomp as it recounts varied public anxieties.
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Automobile News
Photographs and push in the park amid city wits
A collage of brief, witty clippings placed in one page. An Archbishop in Germantown recalls a humorous bench aid tale from his rheumatic moment. Jokes about photographers, photographs, and summer boarders mix with notes on Greek public service hiring women and comic exchanges.
Fifty Years Service Ends Without Pension At Chatham
Ernest Lamb M P cites John William Davidson a civilian clerk at the School of Military Engineering Chatham discharged after over fifty years service with no pension. Mr Hobhouse says Davidson received a gratuity of £188 13s but no pension since Treasury found no entitlement, noting no explicit pension guarantee was ever given.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Ernest Lamb
Secretary of State For War
John William Davidson
School of Military Engineering
Chatham
Hobhouse
Treasury
French gardening methods yield up to £182 per acre in England
London report via Consul Wynne describes French techniques introduced in England. An acre can produce from £6 to £182.495 annually. Hoop houses and glass bell jars are widely used to grow vegetables year round, including lettuce cauliflower celery carrots and melons. Melons are forced by a steady temperature generated by rude roaoure.
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Robert J. Wynne
London
England
President orders district attorney to probe apartment collapse
The President instructed a thorough investigation into the construction site collapse of an apartment building in Washington. He seeks accountability and prosecutions to the fullest extent of the law. Publicity also covered Secretary Taft's Panama election fraud letter.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
Amador
Panama
John Daizell
Pennsylvania
Natural Resources Commission
Francis B. Loomis
United States
Tokio Exposition
F. J. W Skiff
Chicago
Root
Doyle
Apostolic Mission
Thomas W. Symons
Warner
Bourne
E. A. Philbin
New York
Neill
John Barrett
The Diplomatic Corps Moves for Summer at Massachusetts
The Italian Ambassador and Baroness Mayor des Planches plan to depart Washington soon for Smith's Point Marsh Town Mass to spend the summer. Signor Centaro and Signor Cora will join them midweek. French Ambassador Jusserand and Mme. Jusserand dined with top officials. Mme Nabuco and her children head to Hamilton Mass for the summer, joining the ambassador after the Republican National Convention.
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Washington
Mayor Des Planches
Smith's Point
carchester-by-the-Sea
Mass
Signor Centaro
Signor Cora
Mme. Jusserand
Mrs. Taft
Longworths Leave Washington for Cincinnati in June
Washington society notes Rep and Mrs Nicholas Longworth have left their Washington home for Cincinnati for a few days. At Chicago convention week they attend as guests of Mr and Mrs Joseph Medill McCormick. Lieutenant Thomas C Hart, hosting a Chevy Chase dinner, plans for Miss Errol Brown to wed Lt Charles Russell Train.
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Washington
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Chicago
Joseph Medill McCormick
Thomas C. Hart
Errol Brown
Charles Russell Train
Admiral Train
Chevy Chase
Richard Harlow
Pansy Bloomer
Miss Converse
Mr. Swett
Cuthbert Brown
Falconer
Osterhaus
R. C. Bulmer
Bulmer
Navy
Jamestown
R. I
Salem
New York Society Notes on June Weddings and Travel
Miss Caroline Drayton will be maid of honor at Caroline Murray Wilmerding and John B. Trevor’s wedding to be held at the Wilmerding home in East 71st Street on Thursday, June 6. Separately, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ladd Corbett, recent St Bartholomew’s Church newlyweds, sailed for Europe last week. Gretchen Hoyt is their former name. Mr. Ernesto G. Fabbri plans Bar Harbor summer. Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard returns from Europe and will also spend the season there along with Mrs. Alfred Wagstaff senior and her son.
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Preston Satterwhite
Martin
James E. Martin, Jr
Long Island
William Vail Brokaw
Fifth Avenue
Henry Sples Kip
Newport
Caroline Drayton
J. Coleman Drayton
Caroline Murray Wilmerding
John B. Trevor
Lucius K. Wilmerding
East 71Th Street
Henry Ladd Corbett
St. Bartholomew's Church
Europe
Corbett
Gretchen Hoyt
Henry Reese Hoyt
Ernesto G. Fabbri
Bar Harbor
Elliott F. Shepard
Tribune
Lenox
Mass
Elizabeth Coolidge
Boston
Albert TL. Coolides
Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby
Ernest H. Crosby
New York
Trinity Episcopal Church
Ioelock
Frederic Porter
Wintety
Bertha Coolidge
John Hall Wheelock
Morristown
Curtis
Rhinebeck
H. M. Schieffelin
Grace A. Crosby
Eleanor Crosby
Wimnington
Del
Ethelware Lea
Preston Lee
Delaware
Grant Campbell
John Campbell
Orchards
Governor Teas Country Home
Delaware City
Hubert W. Wells
St. Andrew's Church
Wilmington
William C. Spruance
Shelielt Phelps
Englewood
N. J
Margaret Hannard
Constance Griggs
Paterson
Duncan Campbell
New Haven
Margaret Fitch
Frederick Foster Brewster
Trinity Church
Chauncey B Brewster
Charice O. Scoville
Ann English
Anna Fitch
City
Anna Dows
New York City
Thomas W. Farnum
George 5. Brewster
Brewster
Robert W. Carle
Mr. Brewster
New York Yacht Club
New Haven Road
Standart
Comepany
Benjamin
Standard Oil Company
The Longworths Plan Chicago Visit After Cincinnati Stay
Congressman Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. Longworth return to Cincinnati from a two week stay in Chicago at the invitation of Medill McCormick. Mrs. Longworth is not well. Longworth predicts Taft’s first ballot nomination and notes the President’s plans for an African hunting trip with time remaining in his term.
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Tribune
Cincinnati
Nicholas Longworth
Taft
David B. Hill Begins First European Trip Aboard Baltic
Former Governor David B. Hill sails from New York on the Baltic to Liverpool for a first trip abroad. He is joined by Mayor McClellan and John H. O'Brien until departure, and then on the promenade deck he states plans depend on circumstances with potential stops at Queenstown or Liverpool.
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David B. Hill
Europe
Baltic
Liverpool
McClellan
John H. O'Brien
Hill
Queenstown
Towne Delivers Commencement Oration at Nebraska
Charles A. Towne of New York spoke on Government by Parties at the University of Nebraska thirty-seventh annual commencement in Lincoln. Colonel Henry Watterson and W. J. Bryan attended, with Towne later visiting at Fairview.
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Charles A. Towne
New York
University of Nebraska
Henry Watterson
W. J. Bryan
New York Instructor Accepts Colorado Science Chair
June M William v Flaherty a Syracuse University graduate and former New York City private instructor has accepted the chair of science at Cutler Academy affiliated with Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
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Tribune
Colorado Springs
Col
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William v. Flaherty
Syracuse University
New York City
Cutler Academy
Colorado College
Congressman Wiley Seriously Ill in Hot Springs
Congress man A A Wiley of Alabama is critically ill at a Hot Springs hotel. Physicians attribute the condition to general physical breakdown from overwork and long illness and report he is irrational. He was brought here from Washington.
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Hot Springs
A. A. Wiley
Alabama
Washington
Transatlantic Travellers Arrive From Abroad
Passengers arriving yesterday include members of the Adriatic and Umbria lines. Names listed include Herbert L Aldrich James Brown Mr and Mrs Winchester Mrs J Emily Hadden W J Dine mare Conde Nast Elisabeth Poster W Champion Gertrude Seton Cooper Edward Fuller Arthur Rennick Yonn Southworth Ev Barr Henry Palmer Charles Serih her G Riggs EF Swift Samuel Word Miss Mildred Sutherford Miss Julia Morrow.
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Herbert L. Aldrich
James Brown
Winchester
Pitch
J. Emily
Hadden
W. J. Dinemare
Conde Nast
Stith
Charles Hoddies
Lisabeth
Umbria
PROM
Liverpol
H W. Champion
Gertrude Seton Cooper Edward Fuller
Arthur T Rennick
Southworth
Ev. Barr
Rom
Southampton
Henry ¢. Palmer
Charles Serihher
G. Riggs
EF. Swift
Samuel WN. Word
Notable Visitors and Local Arrivals in the Berkshires
Lenox reports include Johnson Morton visiting the Whartons and Philip Cross staying with the Peases. Mrs M Dwight Collier opens her country place as Mrs Hartman Kuhn arrives from Boston. The Lydigs open Thistle Wood for the season while John E Alexander remains confined at Spring Lawn due to illness.
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Lenox
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Johnson Morton
Edward Wharton
M. Dwight Collier
John E. Alexandre
Alexander
Webb
New York
Philip Cross
Henry H. Pease
Hartman Kuhn
Boston
David Lydig
Thistlewood
Angell
A. J. Edwards
Rmrk
Mr. Edwards
John E. Alexander
Spring Lawn
Newport Social Notes Touch On Belmont Funeral Plans
Newport society sent many cottagers to New York and Hempstead for Oliver H. Belmont’s funeral. Alfred G Vanderbilt plans a Europe return to join Long Branch horse show next month. Reginald C Vanderbilt and family host at Sandy Point Farm dinner for guests including Sidney J. Love and Maurice Roche. J. Phipps party returns from cottage hunting without a choice. Ellen French Vanderbilt and her mother return from Ce ter New Hampshire.
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Barnum & Batley Cirem
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Sandy Point Farm
Mia Sidney J. Love
Maurice Roche
J. &. Phipps
New York
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F. O. French
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Stanford Heiress Jennie Lathrop Marries Albert Watson
Miss Jennie Stanford Lathrop daughter of Charles G Lathrop and niece of the late Mrs Jane Le Stanford secretly wed Albert Watson brother of her sister in law. The ceremony occurred while her father was away in Albany with no public disclosure. Watson lacks money but comes from good family.
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Lath
Diverse Weddings Highlight New England Social Scene
The telegraph report covers Elizabeth Coolidge Crosby’s Boston wedding in Lenox at Trinity Church with plans for a Rhinebeck European trip, plus Ethelware Lea and Grant Campbell’s Delaware City ceremony, and Margaret Fitch with Frederick Foster Brewster in New Haven.
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