Vaudeville Bill Brims With 1909 Theaters
Amusements section lists multiple acts and show times across theaters such as Alhambra Dreamland Gaiety and Garrick. Performances include The Man from Home The Third Decree The Motor Girl and The Girl from Rector's with varied start times and venue names.
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Alhampra
Bisor
Roadway
Mississipp
Midnight Sons
Havana Ney Island
Dreamland
Luna Park
ALYS
Musee
Eden Gaiety
Garrick
Mmerstei
Mexico
FRIC
Axine Elliotts
Geing
Rector’s
New York Daily Tribune Office and Officials Listing
The New York Daily Tribune dated Wednesday June 23, 1909 lists ownership by The Tribune Association a New York corporation with Tribune Building 15 Nassau Street New York. Ogden Mills serves as president Henry W Packett as secretary and James M Barrett as treasurer. The officers address is the newspaper’s office.
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Tribune Association
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Tribune Building
Nassau Street
Ogden Mills
Henry W. Packett
James M. Barrett
Rinewspaper
Congress approves 15 percent duty on hides
Senate votes 46 to 30 for a 15 per cent duty on hides with McCumber Gamble Heyburn and Taylor voting for. Burton and Foster favor free hides. House not in session. Weather shows showers. yesterday’s high 91 and low 72.
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Gamble
Heyburn
Taylor
Burton
Foster
House
States and Federal Appointments Change Proposed
The House accepted a Senate amendment to the census bill requiring any federal job applicant to prove an actual bona fide domicile in their state or territory for at least one year before examination. This aims to distribute federal appointments more fairly, ending district juggling and ensuring real residence, aligning with the intent of quota-based hiring. The measure reflects pushback against long-standing residency manipulation and supports equal citizen access to government service.
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House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Washington
District of Columbia
McCumber
North Dakota
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Senate Conferrees
Nationwide Civil Service merit argued against state lines
The discussion favors national competition for federal appointments, arguing that merit and education should determine office, not state origin. Senator Bailey contends against educational tests for classified service, while the article defends balanced state representation in recruiting civil servants, likening it to military staffing.
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Bailey
McCumber
Maine
North Dakota
Anti Tammany Fusion Calls For Strong Ticket
A Republican Club plan urges a unified anti Tammany conference and broader fusion. It argues the ticket should appeal to independent voters, avoid pandering to factions, and be led by Republicans who can attract cross party support for better city government.
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Republican Club
Friends of
Disgraceful six: city powerless over Grady and allies
The Citizens Union attacks Senators Grady McCarren Sullivan Sullivan Sullivan Cullen as a disgrace to the city though voters in their districts elect them. It argues voters have no higher standards and that machine politics endure, leaving reform impractical and human nature to blame.
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Citizens Union
Thomas F. Grady
Patrick H. McCarren
Timothy I. Sullivan
Christopher D. Sullivan
T. J. McManus
T. H. Cullen
Tom” Grady
Albany
Grady
Sullivan
McCarren
Senate
Tammany
Patrick Henry McCarren
Gradys
McCarrens
Sullivans
Do Platforms Bind Democrats in Power to Platform Pledges
The piece analyzes whether a national platform can bind lawmakers to its promises. It cites Bryan's 1894 rule, Cleveland's 1892 pledge, and various Democrats like Hernando Money who urge broader personal latitude in interpreting obligations. It notes disputes over issues such as repealing the state bank tax and duties on lumber.
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Bryan
Cleveland
Chicago
Hernando de Soto Money
Mississippi
Senate
Denver
Platform Principles and Aims Protest by Senator
A senator argues against detailed platform wording preferring plain principles over concrete legislative specifics. He criticizes Money's plan for injecting details and asserts platforms should avoid arguments and illustrations, suggesting Democratic platforms be written in Chinese characters for interpretation.
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Senate
Thomas Jefferson
Jeff Davis
The Cost Of The Cruise And Its Surprising Repairs
The Navy reports the sixteen battleships from the world circling voyage required only 50 280 dollars in repairs, about 3 100 dollars per ship, after a year of global cruising. The piece cites the Oregon’s 11 year old record as precedent for the fleet's strong performance and structural resilience.
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Washington
Oregon
San Francisco
Florida
Cape Cod Canal Aims To Link Buzzards Bay To Cape Cod Bay
Work began on the Cape Cod Canal to shorten water routes from Boston to New York by about 150 miles and avoid Vineyard Sound dangers. The project could enable a continuous inner coast route for ships of moderate size from Boston to Norfolk, aiding commerce and wartime mobility. Additional links via New Jersey to the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay would follow if proven valuable.
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Cape Codd
Buzzard’s Bay
Cape Cod Bay
Massachusetts
Carolinas
Boston
New York
Atlantic
Vineyard Sound
Cape Cod
Norfolk
Long Island Sound
East River
New York Bay
Kill van Kull
Arthur Kill
Raritan River
New Jersey
Delaware River
Pleasure drive or thoroughfare in Central Park debate
The article argues automobiles belong to public streets but Central Park should remain a pleasure ground. It notes park rules exclude business traffic and praise quiet leisure, contending car use has ruined the park’s tranquil charm and turned it into a traffic sink akin to Broadway.
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Central Park
Broadway
Atlantic Record Sets Speed Mark for Mauretania
The Mauretania sails east and west with unmatched speed as business travelers savor late-night arrivals. After a record eastbound run, she returns to the shorter southern route via Sandy Hook to Queenstown, with the captain’s prudent caution extending voyage miles beyond the usual length.
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Mauretania
Sandy Hook
Queenstown
Lusitania Aims For Five Day Transatlantic Run
Report notes marked progress in speed trials aboard the Lusitania as officials declare the ocean liner near a five day crossing goal. Engineers emphasize improved efficiency and safety as the vessel approaches the desired schedule, signaling a new era in rapid, long distance travel.
Darwin Observances Set at Cambridge Over Three Days
The Darwin commemorations in Cambridge span three days at the end of the college year, chosen to attract international visitors and avoid summer lecture conflicts. The week includes no dates tied to his birth or Origin of Species, as college duties and attendance logistics guided the scheduling.
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England
Charles Darwin
Cambridge
Darwin
Definition of a lady wins Gentlewoman prize
A London Gentlewoman prize defines a true lady as a gentlewoman whose words and actions reflect dignity and gracious charm, a pure compassionate heart, willingness to help others, and courtesy to all. The collection of items includes jokes, cholera notes, a New York car seat ruling, and light vignettes from various papers.
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Gentlewoman
London
Taft Dinner and Cabinet Meet on Tax Issue
The President hosts a White House dinner and conference with Senate Finance Committee and Cabinet legal talent for final consideration of the corporation tax amendment. Cabinet today devoted entirely to the tax topic amid attendance by key lawmakers and officials.
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Detroit
F. C. Richardson
Boston
Emanuel Swedenborg
Stuart
Pennsylvania
James B Gentry
Madge York
Philadelphia
Tribune Bureau
Washington
White House
Senate Finance Committee
Root
Cannon
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Ducky” Holmes
Secretary of the Navy
New York
Europe
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Williams College
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Gallinger
Owen
Livingston
Johnson
Austin
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Taft
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Bourne
Brazilian Ambassador Leases Lafayette Square House
The Brazilian Ambassador closed a lease for the Lafayette Square house adjoining the embassy and will occupy it in autumn as embassy offices. Maurice Nabuco leaves Washington for Brockport, North Carolina to stay with Colonel Shannon before joining his parents at Smith's Point, Manchester, Massachusetts. Rinaldo de Lima e Silva travels to join the ambassador at the summer embassy with Gustavo de Vianna-Kelsch. The Venezuelan Minister travels to New York for a brief visit.
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Lafayette Square
Thomas W. Symons
Maurice Nabuco
Mme. Nabuco
Brockport
N. C
Shannon
Smith's Point
Manchester
Mass
Rinaldo de Lima E Silva
Gustavo de Vianna-Kelsch
New York
Washington Society notes six summer plans and engagements
Miss Helen Taft hosts a dinner at Highwood with Deputy Navy Secretary and Mrs Beekman Winthrop. Marion Oliver leaves for Mount Kisco then New London boat races before joining her mother at Murray Bay for the season. Major General Bell plans Alaska visits and Fort Leavenworth duties. West announces the engagement of Minnie A West to Orville Crown. Luquer family heads to Hot Springs for summer. Lt Cmdr Walter Harshman sails to summer abroad. Mrs Harshman joins. Mrs Sturgis spends summer with her father in Wisconsin.
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Helen Taft
Highwood
New London
Murray Bay
Canada
General Bell
Alaska
Bell
Fort Leavenworth
School of the Line
Henry Litchfield West
Minnie A. West
Orville Breckinridge
Nicholas Luquer
Hot Springs
Walter Harshman
Naval Academy
New York Society Heads Abroad for Summer
Mr and Mrs Cuyler sail to-day for Europe to spend the summer abroad. Mr and Mrs George F Baker depart for Europe visiting their son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Howard St George near Dublin. Mrs Oliver H P Belmont leaves St Regis today for Newport for summer. Mr and Mrs Charles A Munn honeymoon in Europe after a Radnor wedding. Mrs Munn is Mary Astor Paul of Philadelphia, niece of Mrs William Waldorf Astor. Mr and Mrs James Speyer sail for Europe after time at Scarboro on Hudson. Arrival list includes Lady Herbert and Mr and Mrs William Barclay.
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Europe
George F. Baker
Howard St
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Town
The
St. Regis
Newport
Charles A. Munn
Radnor
Penn
James Speyer
Scarboro-on-the-Hudson
Mrs Roosevelt to Sail June 26 for Europe
Ex president's wife Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and her three children Miss Ethel Archie and Quentin will depart New York June 26 aboard the White Star steamer Cretic bound for Gibraltar and Naples. They plan a summer on the continent including a month with Miss Carow near Rome and a later trip to France. They will return to America around November 1 abandoning a winter Nile plan.
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Roosevelt
Miss Ethel
Archie
Quentin
New York
White Star Line
Cretic
Gibraltar
Naples
Miss Carow
The
Nile
King Edward to Stay Weeks with Reid at Wrest Park
London reports King Edward will spend four weekends with Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid at Wrest Park toward the end of July. The arrangements are set for a private royal visit with the Reid household hosting during the noted period.
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Wrest Park
London
King Edward
Whitelaw Reid
Americans At King’s Levee at St James’s Palace
London June 22 Ambassador Reid with Craig Wadsworth attended King Edward’s levee at St James’s Palace. He presented to the king a group of Americans including Thomas Nelson Page Mitchell Harrison W J Sewall Major T Bentley Mott and Commander Edward Simpson.
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London
Reid
Craig Wadsworth
St. James's Palace
Thomas Nelson Page
Mitchell Harrison
England
W. J. Sewall
New York
T Bentley Mott
Paris
Edward Simpson
Gift of radium to hospital by Mrs. Reid
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid wife of the US ambassador to Great Britain presented to the Red Cross Guild Hospital of San Mateo a tiny bottle of radium sent from London for experimental use. The hospital lies near D O Mills home, the father of Mrs. Reid, where she grew to womanhood.
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San Francisco
Maynooth Professor Dismissed Over Irish Language Pamphlet
Dublin reports the Rev. Dr. O'Hickey has been dismissed from the Maynooth College professorship in Irish by the bishops who govern the college. The action follows his pamphlet arguing for making the Irish language a compulsory entrance subject for the envisioned National University.
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O’hickey
Maynooth College
O'Hickey
National University
Mrs Rogers Leases Greenwich Country Place
Mrs Henry Rogers leases the Greenwich Connecticut country place for the summer. Mrs Henry Lorillard Cammann owns the estate and Pease and Elliman represent Mrs Rogers in the transaction.
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Henry Lorillard Cammann
Greenwich
Conn
Henry H. Rogers
Pease & Elliman
Rogers
Social Notes From Newport June Party Setters
Newport telegraph item lists society arrivals and visits for June. Notables include Mrs Elsie French Van derbilt and sister Lady Cheylesmere, Duchess of Manchester guest at Wakehurst, Vanderbilt family members, German nobility Count and Countess von Hapsburg planning visit, and several society names like Miss Kathryn Lawrence, Mrs Bargar Wallach, and Mr S J Colford Jr. Elizabeth Safe underwent appendicitis surgery. various families plan seasonal absences.
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the Tribune
Newport
Elsie French Vanderbilt
Cheylesmere
Land
Duchess of Manchester
James J. van Alen
Wakehurst
Richard Gamorill
Golf Club
Prescott Lawrence
Kathryn Lawrence
Edith Wetmore
Bargar Wallach
Caroline O. Jones
Hermann O¢elrichs
Howard Spencer Graham, Jr
HH. Warg
Herbert M. Harriman
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. Way
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Henry G. Me Vickar
Vera Gilbert
New York
S. J. Colford, Jr
Andrew Robeson
Boston
Kenneth Safe
T. Shaw Safe
Albert L. Lewis
Bear Creek
Penn
William Fitzhugh Whitehouse and Sons
Summer Visitors Arrival Notes Across Lenox and Nearby
Telegraphed notes list numerous guests and arrivals in Lenox Stockbridge and surrounding towns. Chicago and New York visitors join country houses such as Curtis Hotel Ashintully Farm Maplewood Pittsfield and Corner House Stockbridge while others head to Islesboro Mohonk and New London for summer activities and boat races. Social events include dinners at Underledge and luncheons at The Gables as Mrs Alexander Webb remains ill and Mrs Webb visits.
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Tribune
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John C. Black
Chicago
Curtis Hotel
Frederic D. Tappen
Ethel Brooks
Silas B. Brownell
Grace Brownell
Stockbridge
Utica
Austin F. Riggs
Islesboro
Maine
Robbie Pevrster Tytus
Ashintully Farm
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George F. Perkins
New York
Lee
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Webb
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William Armstrong
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Richard C. Dixey
Harvard
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Conn
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Morristown
N. J
Reed Whittemore
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Lake Mohonk
Harris E. Adriance
Heb Adriance
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George R. Nichols, Jr
T. F. Bayles
Freehold
Co. L. van Town
East Orange
Maplewood
Pittsfield
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Katherine Baird
W. A. Burnham
Burnham
Irvington-on-the-Hudson
Mary de Peyster Carey
the Gables
Alexander Mason
Corner House
Richard Starr Dana
Birchwood Terrace
Magee Will Provides Marble Fountain for University of Pittsburg
The will of Mrs Seamer Magee valued at 1 000 000 disposes of her fortune and includes a 20 090 marble drinking fountain to be erected in the University of Pittsburg yard for the memory of her. She reportedly traveled from Rome last year to discuss the fountain with university trustees in secret.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Seamer Magee
University of Pittsburg
Young
Mra Magee
Rome
Literary congress opens in Copenhagen with royal presence
The thirty ninth International Literary and Artistic Association congress opened at Copenhagen University in the King and Queen's presence. Professor Georg Brandes lauded U S generosity toward foreign writers. Attendees thanked Dr Maurice F Egan for U S justice to writers. Robert Underwood Johnson and Thorvald Solberg were singled out.
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International Literary and Artistic Association
Georg Brandes
United States
Maurice F. Egan
Congress of the
Robert Underwood Jonson
the Century Magazine
Thorvald Solberg
Washington
Erat
Fairbanks Extends Seoul Visit During Corean Tour
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, visiting Seoul on a world tour, extends his stay to pursue Corean affairs. He plans an audience with the Emperor and visits Ping-Yang and Moukden, inspecting missions, schools, and hospitals while urging Corea people to seize opportunities.
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Charles W. Fairbanks
United States
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Ping-Yang
An-Tung
Map of London costs 30000 dollars
A long London Daily Mail item notes a county council map project stretching from Stamford Hill to Putney and from Plumstead to Lower East Ham. It tracks every shop and property, with handling room and ongoing costs described as the endeavor nears completion after fifteen years and delayed budgeting.
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