Castino to Florotora Amusements and Vaudeville Listings
Amusements section lists theatre acts and venues in New York including World of Wex, Captain Jinks of the Horse, The Brixton Burve ry, Manhattan Beach, Fifth Avenue venues, and several garden theatres with vaudeville shows and continuous performances. Listings include times and acts such as The Violin Maker, Kaltenborn Orchestral Concerts, The Chimes of Normandy, and various engagements on midtown stages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World of Wex
Captain Jinks
Horse
Herald Square Theatre
Keithe
Koster & Pials
aApece
Square Theatre
Anhattan Beach
Fifth Avenue
Third Street
Proctors
One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Street
ST. Nicholas Garden
Terrace Garden
Normandy
Victoria Mounted Rifles Captured in Boer Fight
Two hundred men of the Victoria Mounted Rifles were captured after a sharp fight by Boers south of Middleburg. Eighteen British were killed and forty-two wounded in the engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victorian Mounted Rifles
Middleburg
Keene
Jast
Longchamps
Rigby
Chéri
Cailles
Henley
Lord Pauncefote
Bismarck
Berlin
Count von Billow
Bristol
K. L
Wisconsin
San Francisco
Allison
Iowa
Shaw
Hyde
Bowdoin College
Harvard University
Ithaca
Pennsylvania
Kennedy
Ana Rivas Herques
Edward H. Martin
Trans- Ingalls
Yonkers
Percy Stickney Grant
City College
Andrew Carnegie
Northfield
Subscribe for Toe Tepuxe Before You Leave City
A quirky note urges readers to subscribe to Toe Tepuxe before summer travel. It promises the address may change frequently, implying flexible delivery and ongoing access during absence.
Injustice to Porto Rico debated in U S politics
The piece argues against claims of Porto Rican injustice under the Foraker law, noting islanders favored taxes over direct tariffs, and that critics fail to prove spoliation or injustices. It contrasts conservative views with positive effects of the legal framework and revenue system on Puerto Rico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Portland Oregonian
Republican Party
Philippines
Oregonian
Pst
Washington
United States
United States Treasury Internal Revenue
Porto Rico’s economic gain from nonconstitutional status
A discussion of how Porto Rico benefited economically from being outside the constitution. The piece argues the 1900s policy, via the Foraker Act and the Downes decision, kept uniform internal revenue and tariffs, avoiding direct taxes on farmers and aiding school funding, with a cited broader impact on the island’s industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Downes
Porto Rico
The Perry Disaster and Staten Island Ferry Crisis
The article argues the Staten Island Ferry crash stemmed from rival captains and poor management at slips shared by two lines. It urges Staten Island Ferry managers to enforce safer crossing practices, refit slipping facilities, and ensure first class service to protect thousands of daily riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staten Island
Whitehall
Mauch Chunk
Northfield
New Jersey Central
Manhattan
Richmond
A Fine Road Ill Used on Ocean Parkway Brooklyn
Opinion on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn criticizing misuse by racehorses jockeys and spectators. Central driveway degraded into a speedway with clay and loam, making it unsafe for family carriages. Sections from Prospect Park to Coney Island sacrificed to horse racing interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Prospect Park
Ocean Beach
Coney Island
Great Central
King’s Highway
Public road clash over speedway on Ocean Parkway
Residents condemn converting half of the Ocean Parkway drive into a speedway for racing. They urge macadamizing the southern two miles, barring business traffic, and keeping the parkway for legitimate park uses, noting nearby racing facilities and safety concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Speedway
Ocean Parkway
Morris Park
Central Park
Riverside Drive
A Chance to Cooperate with the Fifteen Committee
The Committee of Fifteen seeks public help to drive vice from tenement districts under new tenement house laws. It argues that residents, especially poorer families and immigrant communities, can be motivated to expose violations, gain rights, and support a cleansing effort with self-interest guiding disclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee of Fifteen
Fraud warnings on Ward Miller and similar schemes
The piece condemns Ward and Miller style swindles and other investment frauds. It notes thousands duped, with expected 6 percent returns versus hundreds of thousands lost, and urges public prosecutors and moral guardians to act to curb deceitful syndicates. It highlights iconic scams and the pervasiveness of gullibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller Syndicate
Ferdinand Ward
May trade records signal strong domestic commerce rebound
Domestic trade in May set records across bank exchanges and railway earnings while stock market activity, pig iron output, and shoe shipments reached new highs backed by a robust foreign trade balance. Early June hints at continued strength though speculative fervor cooled and demand for seasonal goods remains uneven amid lingering labor unrest.
Market Review Shows Steady Growth Across Sectors
The report details minimal idle labor as disputes ease with concessions, a stable gold shipment, a 3 percent Bank of England discount rate, and rising London call loans. Banks expand loans by 34.5 million in two weeks while deposits grow and reserves fall. Market optimism continues as rail and textile equities climb, print cloth sales rise, and brown goods for China expand despite hostilities. Woollens demand improves, raw materials hold, and farmers face uncertain profits. Boots and shoes shipments push yearly totals higher, while iron and steel stay active with full finishing mills, strong billet demand, and rising furnace output. Coal and coke markets stay firm with July price expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
London
St. Paul
Wall Street
Fall River
China
Boston
Gotham figure plans pilgrimage and potential borough bid
Rumors place James J. Coogan, described as Gotham's unconscious humorist, planning a pilgrimage to Wantage this month and seeking another term as borough president with or without salary. The piece also notes a Delaware incorporation by a Tabasco Plantation Company and hints hazing at West Point is under scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gotham
James J. Coogan
Wantage
Cervantes
Sancho Panza
Coogan
New York
Delaware
West Point
American visitors shape London life and school verse trends
Abroad accounts praise American spending in London and note optimism for a unified US public school system. Court sentences harshen for professional gamblers, while investors weigh Hackensack meadow values and urban real estate heights. The piece ends by mocking forced class day poems as poor verse.
West Indies Fruits Reach New York at Low Prices
In New York the influx of West Indian fruits continues, with plentiful supplies and low prices. Jamaicans demand faster steamship service to deliver large shipments to the city. Meanwhile at Police Headquarters a nursery game, Button, Button, Who's Got the Button, becomes a live curiosity as every officer must buy new buttons and the search for the favored contractor begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jamaica
West Indies
Cambridge leaders greet international scholars and climber
Sir Martin Conway the new Slade professor at Cambridge University is an artist critic and architect known for Alpine traverses and explorations of the Bolivian Andes Spitzbergen and Andean peaks. Dr A Kovalevski travels to Chicago for lectures while Miss Belle Hyman remains noted for her blindness and charitable work. A monument to Dr Thomas King Carroll in Cambridge Maryland honors fifty years of medical service during pestilence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Conway
Slade
Cambridge University
Alps
Bolivian Andes
Spitzbergen
Aconcagua
Sorata
Hilimani
Belle Hyman
Chicago
Illnois
Yates
A. Kovalevski
Imperial Academy of Sciences of
St. Petersburg
University of Chicago
United States
Thomas King Carrol
Cambridge
Dorchester County
Carroll
Students to sail to Henley on cattle ships for regatta
Twenty five University of Pennsylvania students plan to travel to Ireland and England for the Henley regatta and related sightseeing. They will sail on cattle ships with limited funds and return before the fall term. Many are high achievers and some trained before departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Record
Ireland
University of Dublin
Lake of Killarney
England
Funeral of Prof Truman H Stafford at Williams College
Williamstown Massachusetts June 1 The funeral of Truman H Stafford professor of astronomy and mathematics at Williams College who died in Jersey City on Thursday was held in the college chapel this afternoon President Franklin Carter officiating The burial was in the college cemetery Jessor Stafford was a Harvard graduate class of 1854 and an eminent astronomer and mathematician member of several foreign societies
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Williamstown
Mass
Truman H. Stafford
Williams College
Jersey City
College Chapel
Franklin Carter
College
Jessor Stafford
Harvard
Mrs Craigie Brings Dante and Botticelli to London Notes
London notes report Mrs. Craigie returning from Florence with a short essay on Dante and Botticelli addressing the Dante Society in Harley Street. Her humanist view links Dante and Botticelli through life discipline and shared disillusion, while English critics debate American literary resources and a Dante library at Cornell. The piece then surveys current art shows, praising Severn and Fantin-Latour, noting watercolor and lithograph highlights and the Modern Gallery’s comprehensive tour option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Craigie
Florence
Dante Society
Harley-st
Walter Pater
John Addington Symonds
Dante
Botticelli
Medici
Savonarola
Politian
Theocritus
Hell
Lars
Aphrodite
Cornell University
Dudley Gallery
Art 3 Society
Egyptian Hall
Walter Severn
George Marks
Albert Stevens
Chamonix Valley
M. Fantin-Latour
Gutekunst
Wagner
Berlioz
Rossini
Schumann
America
Ensland
Siegfried
Tannhauser
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Amusements
Feiler
Bankers & Brokers
Mustelaneous
Eran Fteamere Luc Ner
Rathroids
Sum
Cial Meerings
Newsborks Daily Tribune
Money and Business
Jonathan
Ocean
Court of General Sessions
Faro
Hackensack Meadows
Hudson
Bronx
Lilavati Singh
India
Booker T. Washington
Edward Schnadhorst
East End
Philadelphia Press
Chicago Record-Herald
Grace (. Johnson, Jr
Ohio State Journal
William
Marie
Chicago Tribune
Waverly
Kan
M. Rice
Rice
A. J. Green
Japan
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Tokio School of Foreign Languages
High Commercial School
France
Germany
Italy
Russia
Spain
Corea
the Forks
Glasgow Evening Times
Cincinnati
Elmer
Professor Broadhead
Son
London Notes
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