Amusements Catalog Night Shows and Time Listings
A fragment lists vaudeville and theater acts with venues like Daly's Eden Musee Knickerbocker and Lyric plus showtimes such as 6 20 8 20 and 4 15 across venues including Coney Island Rostock's and Dreamlané. Includes acts The Witching Hour The Yankee Prince The Wolf The Merry Widow and Marys Lamb among others.
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Vauéeville
Blaney
Asino
Tacle—S
Coney Island
Tuna Park
Rostock's
Dreamlané
Brighton Beach Park
Daly's
Eden Musee
Mackett
Baerlem Casino
Rigo
Knickerbocker
LYRIC
Amsterdam
New York
Savoy
Wallacks
New York Daily Tribune details ownership and officers
The 1908 article lists The Tribune Association as owner and publisher with offices at 154 Nassau Street New York. It names Ogden Mills as president and Nathaniel Tuttle as secretary and treasurer with the officers’ address stated as the newspaper office.
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The
Tribune Association
New York Corporation
Tribune Building
Nassau Street
New York
Ogden Mills
Nathaniel Tuttle
International tensions and domestic politics in brief
Foreign reports describe a feared triple alliance among Britain Russia and France. In the U S the stock market is dull while racing bets and anti gambling measures dominate headlines. Local officials vow enforcement as weather turns fair and warmer.
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Great Britain
Russia
France
Germany
London
Gregori
Dreyfus
Paris
Chicago
Cortelyou
Hughes
Taft
Roosevelt
Panama
State Senate
Foelker
Wallace
Assembly
Albany
Massachusetts House
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Boston & Maine
Andover Theological Seminary
Harvard University
Kentucky Democratic State Convention
Denver
Bryan
Omaha
Kings
Queens County
Thomas RP. Slicer
New York
Timothy L. Woodruff
Hearst
23D Street
Hoboken Tube
Steel Trust
W. E. Corey
Public Service Commission
Board of Education
Metz
Board of Estimate
Fischer-Hansen
Colonel Watterson Endorses Bryan As Democratic Leader
The article reports Col Watterson’s visit to Lincoln and Omaha as he reconciles with Bryan and praises his role in uniting the Democratic party. It notes past opposition to Bryan and now credits Bryan as the main stay of the party, citing Watterson's editorial reflections.
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Olone
Watterson
Brian
Lincoln
Neb
Omaha
Lexington
Bryan
Kentucky
Courier-Journal
Colonel Watterson
Mr. Bryen
Democratic Party
Old Men of the Sea Clash Over Cleveland and Bryan Influence
The piece laments two dangers in the Democratic party Cleveland and Bryan. It portrays them as self serving leaders grinding the party’s wellbeing and mocks civic virtue and image worship. It calls for revision and forgiveness as the campaign progresses in The Courier Journal.
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Democratic Party
Cleveland
Bryan
Millstone
Anti-Gambling Victory Honors Foelker and Hughes
The piece lauds Senator Foelker for risking his health to vote for anti-gambling bills and credits Governor Hughes with leading a persuasive, morally clear campaign. It praises Hughes for unselfish leadership and predicts the victory will boost his prestige and public support.
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Foelker
Hughes
Brooklyn
Imle
Albany
Senate
International neighborliness shines in royal Russian visit
The King and Queen of England met Russia’s Emperor and Empress without incident, highlighting unusual freedom for Nicholas II. The piece argues that international friendship should extend beyond domestic politics, noting no treaty or alliance. the visit strengthens private kinship and public ties without hindering England or advancing Russian reactionaries.
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England
Russia
Edward VII
Nicholas II
Esthenia
Americas
America
Reval
Toward Peace and Freedom Between Two Great Powers
The passage notes growing neighborly feelings between two sovereigns and asserts that real peace and goodwill arise from such ties more than formal diplomatic pacts. It highlights improved relations and progress toward orderly freedom in Russia over the past two to three years, surpassing any period in the prior century.
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Russia
Brewers Urge End of Dives in Temperance Stand
A billion-dollar brewers and saloons group pledges to abolish dives and back temperance, signaling a broad shift in public sentiment. They contend modern business methods foster saloon evils, while no-license movements threaten prohibition momentum and warn the industry to fully commit or risk losing influence.
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Milwaukee
Minnesota
America
Minneapolis
New Jersey Tax Muddle Delays Railroad Valuations
The New Jersey State Board of Assessors failed to confirm rail road property valuations in Hudson County within statute limits. Hendrickson’s 1906 1907 figures are much higher than prior assessments, prompting questions of honesty and potential legal challenge and revenue delays.
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New Jersey
Hendrickson
Jersey City
Hoboken
State Board
New York
Board of Assessors
Racing man criticizes track gambling penalty repeal
A noted racing man says abolition of the special penalty for racetrack gambling will not bring bettors back to stands as they never had a money return. He criticizes the Assembly for defeating the McCarren bill, urging passage next session with Republican support. He also notes breaking the morphine habit as a simple task.
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Assembly
McCarren
John
Cassidy
Publicities on Racing Abstinence and Civic Trinkets
A column riffs on a chauffeur tragedy and a penitent’s plan for exhibition races in 60 and 90 horsepower cars. It notes political loyalties, gas meter morals, Hearst lawyers, Austria Hungary Jubilee pageantry, and Albany dynamite incidents, weaving satire across public issues and sensational events.
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Automobile News
Photographs and Presidents and a Dusty Debate
A collage of short items: Archbishop Ryan helps a crowd member, Greece hires women in telegraphs, an elevator joke from Puck, dust control via weeds on Oregon tracks, a Naval Academy standout Luther Welsh, and the Chicago Bar Association backs salaries over fees.
Fifty years’ temporary engagement sparks pension query
Ernest Lamb M P drew attention to John William Davidson a civilian clerk at the School of Military Engineering Chatham who after over fifty years service was discharged without a pension. Secretary Hobhouse replied Davidson received a gratuity of 183 pounds 13 shillings but no pension the Treasury found no entitlement and no explicit assurance of a pension 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
Treasury
French gardening methods in England raise high yields
London reports show French techniques bringing in crops from lettuce to melons. Hot beds and glass bell jars dominate production with an acre yielding between £590 and £1,400 annually, using steady heat from manure to force vegetables like lettuce cauliflower celery carrots and melons.
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Robert J. Wynne
London
England
President orders probe into apartment collapse and law actions
Washington June 11 The President directed the District Attorney to thoroughly investigate the apartment building collapse under construction and to fix responsibility and prosecute the guilty. He also released Secretary Taft’s Panama letter demanding election fraud suppression.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
Amador
Panama
John Daizell
Pennsylvania
Natural Resources Commission
Francis B. Loomis
United States
Tokio Exposition
Fr. & W. Skiff
Chicago
Root
Doyle
Apostolic Mission
Thomas W. Symons
Warner
Bourne
E A. Philbin
New York
Neill
John Barrett
Diplomatic Corps Heads for Summer Retreats
The Italian Amba and Baroness Mayor des Planches plan to leave Washington for Smith's Point Manchester by the Sea Mass to spend the summer. Signor Centaro and Signor Cora will join them midweek. French Ambassador and Mme Jusserand hosted officials at dinner. Mme Nabuco to Hamilton Mass for summer with the Brazilian ambassador.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Amba
Mayor Des Planches
Smith's Point
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Mass
Signor Centaro
Signor Cora
Mme. Jusserand
Isador State
Taft
Secren Winthrop
Mary of
Washington Social Round Delights in June Gatherings
Representative and Mrs. Longworth closed their Washington home for Cincinnati visits during convention week in Chicago. Miss Errol Brown will wed Lt Charles Russell Train with Lt Hart as usher at a Chevy Chase dinner in her honor. Mrs. Harlow chaperoned a guest list including Miss Bloomer and Miss Converse. Mrs Bulmer travels to Jamestown to be near her husband aboard the Salem.
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Tribune Bureau
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 Weddings and Travel
Miss Caroline Drayton will serve as maid of honor to Caroline Murray Wilmerding at her impending marriage to John B. Trevor on June 2 at the Wilmerding home in East Tith Street. Mr and Mrs Henry Ladd Corbett recently wed and sailed to Europe. Gretchen Hoyt is her former name. Ernesto G Fabbri and bar harbor plans for summer follow Mrs Elliott Shepard’s Europe return and Mrs Alfred Wagstaff sr and her son are mentioned.
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James BE. Martin
James & Martin
Preston Satterwhite
Martin
James &. Martin
Long Island
William Vail Brokaw
Fifth Avenue
Caroline Drayton
J. Coleman Drayton
Caroline Murray Wilmerding
John B. Trevor
Lucius K. Wilmerding
East Tith Street
Henry Ladd Corbett
St. Bartholomew's Church
Europe
Corbett
Gretchen Hoyt
Henry Reese Hoyt
Ernesto G. Fabbri
Bar Harbor
Elliott F. Shepard
The Longworths to Visit Chicago
Congressman Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. Longworth return to Cincinnati from their home and will spend two weeks in Chicago with Mr. and Mrs. Medill McCormick. Mrs. Longworth’s health appears poor and Longworth predicts Taft’s on first-ballot nomination with strong convention enthusiasm.
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The
Tribune
Cincinnati
Nicholas Longworth
Taft
David B. Hill Begins First European Trip Aboard Baltic
Ex Governor David B. Hill sails from New York aboard the Baltic bound for Liverpool on his first trip to Europe. Mayor McClellan and John H. O'Brien accompany him to the ship and linger until boarding ends. Hill says he has no fixed itinerary and will decide his route by circumstances.
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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 thirty seventh annual University of Nebraska commencement in Lincoln. Colonel Henry Watterson and William Jennings Bryan attended, and Towne was later a guest at Fairview.
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Lincoln, Neb
Charles A. Towne
New York
University of Nebraska
Henry Watterson
W. J. Bryan
New York Instructor Named Cutler Academy Science Chair
June M William Vy Flaherty a Syracuse University graduate and longtime New York private instructor has accepted the science chair at Cutler Academy linked with Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
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The
Tribune
Colorado Springs
Col
June M.—Wiliam Vy. Flaherty
Syracuse University
New York City
Cutler Academy
Colorado College
Congressmen Wiley Critically Ill in Hot Springs
Congressman A A Wiley of Alabama is critically ill at a Hot Springs hotel after a general physical breakdown from overwork and fatigue. Physicians say he is irrational due to exhaustion. he was brought here from Washington for treatment.
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Congressman Wiley
Hot Springs
A. A. Wiley
Alabama
Washington
Transatlantic Travellers Arrivals From Several Ocean Voyages
Passengers arriving yesterday from abroad include travelers aboard the Adriatic and the Umbria plus the Pennsylvanian and ships from Liverpool and Southampton. Names listed feature families and individuals such as Herbert L Aldrich James Brown Winchester Pitch J Emily S Hadden Conde Nast E O Barr Mildred Sutherland Julia Morrow Henry Palmer and Charles Scrid ner among others.
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Herbert L. Aldrich
James Brown
Winchester
J. Emily S. Hadden
Suet
W. St. Dinsmore
Conde Nast
Feilth
Cary
Harles Hood
Elizahbeth Q. Porter
Umbria
Liverpol
H. W. Champion
Arthur T. Rennick
Seton Cooper
In the Berkshires Society Notes and Arrivals
Telegraph dispatch from Lenox reports Johnson Morton teagues visiting Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wharton. Mrs. M. Dwight Collier opened her country place. Mrs. John E. Alexandres hosts her mother Mrs. Alexander S. Webb of New York. Philip Cross of New York stays with Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Pease. Mrs. Hartman Kuhn of Boston arrives at her estate. Thistle wood opens for the season. Mrs. F. S. Angell, mother of Mrs. Edwards who died, travels from Boston summoned by illness. John E. Alexander remains confined at Spring Lawn summer home.
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the Tribune
J Lenox
Mass
Johnson Morton
Edward Wharton
M. Dwight Collier
John E. Alexandres
Alexander S. Webb
New York
Philip Cross
Henry H. Pease
Hartman Kuhn
Boston
David Lydig
Angell
A. L. Edwards
Mr. Edwards
John E. Alexander
Spring Lawn
Newport Society Attends Barnum Bailey Show
Newport social life centers on the Barnum Bailey circus seen today with cottagers traveling to New York and Hempstead for the Belmont funeral. Alfred G Vanderbilt plans a return from Bumpe for the Long Branch horse show next month with Reginald C Vanderbilt also exhibiting. Dinner at Sandy Point Farm honors guests including Sidney J Love and Maurice Roche. The Phipps family returns from New York after cottage hunting with no selections made. Mrs Ellen French Vanderbilt and her mother have returned from Chester New Hampshire.
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Tribune
Newport
R. L
Newport Society
Barnum & Bailey Cirem
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Sandy Point Farm
Sidney J. Love
Maurice Roche
J. 3. Phipps
New York
Ellen French Vanderbilt
F. ©. French
Cheeter
N. H
Stanford Heiress Jennie Lathrop Weds Albert Watson
Miss Jennie Stanford Lathrop, heiress to the Stanford estate, secretly marries Albert Watson while her father, Charles G Lathrop, is in Albany. The union follows a will leaving her $250000 from her aunt Jane Te Stanford with further inheritance from her father.
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Tribunal
San Francisco
Jennie Stanford Lathrop
Charles G Lathrop
Jane Te Stanford
Albert Watson
Stanford University
Albany
Year of three weddings echoes lasting social ties
Widespread society interest marks multiple ceremonies across cities. In Lenox Massachusetts, Miss Elizabeth Coolidge and Maunsell Crosby wed at Trinity Church with a Boston bride and New York groom, followed by a wedding breakfast and travel plans to Rhinebeck and Europe. Other ceremonies include Miss Ethelwordner Lea and Grant Campbell in Delaware and Miss Margaret Fitch with Frederick Foster Brewster in New Haven, each with prominent families and attendees.
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Tribune
Lenox
Mass
Elizabeth Coolidge
Boston
Albert E. Coolidge
Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby
Ernest H. Crosby
New York
Trinity Episcopal Church
Frederic Porter Vintory
Bertha Coolidge
John Hall Wheelock
Morristown
Curtis
New Haven
Margaret Fitch
Frederick Foster Brewster
Trinity Church
Chauncey B Brewster
Craftee
Scoville
Anna Fish
Anna Fitch
Anna Dows
New York City
Thomas W. Farnum
George 3S. Brewster
Robert Hrewster
Robert W
Oliver Gould Jer Nines
Brewster
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Col. Page
Col Woeseee
Ocean Board
Tvasneem
Proposais i. A
Glesning
New York Daily Tribe
Republic
Willam Jennings Pryan
Nebraska
Parker
Judge Parker
International Neighborliness
Austria-Hungary
Prater
Ringstrasse
Inquirer
Gonzaga Memorial
Germantown
Ryan
Philadelphia
Logan Square
Chamber of Deputies of
Greece
Director of Posts and Telegraphs
Upton
Scott
Rube
Puck
M. J. Buckley
Oregon Navigation Line
Rastus
Naval Academy
Luther Welsh
Kansas City
Welsh
Louisville Courier-Journal
Chicago Bar Association
Supreme
Record-Herald
Supreme Court
Bar Association
Philadelphia Inquirer
White House
Samuel Wag
Hudson
Pauline le Roy French
Amos Tuck French
Elsie French Vanderbilt
Ernest Iselin
Spencer Eddy
Plaza
Henry Sples Kip
Arthur G. Sedgwick
Mie Grace
Susan Sedgwick
Stockbridge
Mais
Carroll Jackson
Alexander T. van Nest
the Diplomatic Corps
IN Washington Society
NEW York Society
Alfred Wagstaff, Sr
the Longworths
Longworth
MR. Bryan
C. A. Towne
Colorado
Hamairg
Mildred Sutherland
Julia Morrow
Berkshires
Stanford
Wilmington
Del
Ethelwordner Lea
Preston Lee
Delaware
Grant Campbell
John Campbell
U. S
Lea
Delaware City
Hubert W. Wells
St. Andrew's Church
Wilmingtonbride
William C. Sordance, Jr
Sheffield Phelps
Englewood
N. J
Margaret Hannard
Constance Grizas
Patersom
Duncan Campbell
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