Jockey Club Elections Show Case of Blackballs and Secrecy
London report on the Jockey Club of Great Britain annual meeting at Lord Derby’s London home. Candidates face secret ballots, with two blackballs enough to block entry, keeping nominees hidden from club lists. The piece notes royal and noble involvement, past blackball history, and the Keeper of the Match Book method for candidate notices.
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Explains The Bath by Gaston La Touche
Pittsburg reports Paris artist Gaston La Touche explains his painting The Bath which won first prize at the Carnegie international contest. He says the work draws on Greek myth and the Susanna bath story reimagined in an antique setting with the shepherd god Pan replacing the elders.
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Schurz Memorial Subscriptions Reach Six Figures
The Carl Schurz Memorial Committee reports subscriptions totaling $75 941.26 for a memorial to the German soldier and politician. Committees have formed in Boston Baltimore and St Louis to advance the project. Dr Felix Adler writes that Schurz’s Civil War cabinet service and public virtue should be embodied in a living memorial to inspire admiration.
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Harriman Chauffeur Jailed for Speeding in Brooklyn
Frederick W. Arthur, chauffeur for Frank W. Harriman of the Holland House, was arrested by Brooklyn Bicycle Patrolman Wetshur in Bedford avenue for speeding twenty one miles per hour. Harriman not in the car. family at Larchmont.
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Taft Heads to New Haven for Yale Corporation Meeting
Secretary Taft departed Washington for New Haven to attend a Yale Corporation meeting. He planned to stay in New York with his brother Henry W. Taft before traveling on to New Haven and then return to Washington next Thursday after the university's commencement exercises.
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A Maine Institution Gone at Bryant’s Pond
The Kennebec Journal recalls Ezra Stephens known as Maine’s Barnum who ran a curious Bryant’s Pond store after circus travels. His old shop housed gear from a circus including a band wagon gilded cages and tents. Stephens died from drinking wood alcohol in July 199% and the fire this week at his former stand is noted as a local loss.
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Ezra Stephens
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Yankees in Canada Fourth of July Trade Rise
A Pittsburg vendor notes growing American goods flow into Canada for Independence Day. He cites American invasion of Canada and closer U S ties as factors, with most orders destined for the Canadian Northwest and Americans already there buying items for Fourth of July demonstrations. Despite a market slump, orders are arriving fast from all regions.
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Greek Play Enchants Bradfield in Open Air Antigone
A Bristol era article describes Bradfield College hosting a Greek play Antigone in a chalk pit transformed into Epidaurus. Twelve hundred spectators in a classical setting hear Sophocles performed with modern stage touches by sixth formers, under Dr Rowton’s music, before returning to English lanes and tea tents.
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Mr Gibson Returns from Abroad to New York
Charles Dana Gibson the pen and ink artist arrived with his wife and two children aboard the American liner St. Paul. He will brief stay then return to France to continue his color study, praising Roosevelt and noting European high regard for him.
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Potter presents gift to Masonic Home from Bishop Potter
Bishop Henry C. Potter personally unfurled a gift at the Masonic Home in Utica before about a thousand people. Past Grand Master William Scherer, New York, accepted as chairman of the board of trustees. Lodges from the district and many grand lodge officers attended. Potter later left for Cooperstown by automobile. trustees meet in New York tomorrow.
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New York
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Cooperstown
Biltmore Closes for Summer as Vanderbilt Family Heads North
Asheville June 23 Biltmore is closed and Mr and Mrs George W Vanderbilt have left for Bar Harbor for the summer. The Vanderbilts will not reopen Biltmore House until October or November. All Biltmore House servants accompanied them to Bar Harbor today.
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Acknowledgments and Donations for Fresh Air Fund
A list from The Tribune details donations and acknowledgments to the Fresh Air Fund. Names include Mrs. Robert Ferguson Miss Marian Grieves Mrs. Mary E. Meeker and others, with amounts ranging from 10d to 2920 and a total of 4062.92 recorded for June 22, 1907. The notice preserves donor names and contributions across multiple cities and individuals.
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F. FE. White
Robert Ferguson
Oomas
P. Wilkinson
Pie Casly
Edmund Titus
H. H. White
Brooklyn
Madison
Methodist
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Mary E. Meeker
Rahwa
Lee J. G
Margaret J. Thayer
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Ton
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Southwe
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William Macbeth
Mary Harris Pearson
Harrisburg
J. Crowell
Frances
M. S
Burlington
Vinooo
George W. Collard
Newport
Adel E. Reid
Matilda Mulhaher
Holmes
Montclair
Today’s Community Events and Open Meetings
Entertainment by the Young Women’s Christian Association at No. 7 East 5th street. Commencement events at the High School of Commerce No. 155. Mediation for the International Art Society at Waldorf-Astoria. Bellevue Training School for Men Nurses holds a commencement at No. 431 East 20th street in the evening.
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Prominent Arrivals at Notable Hotels
PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS BRESLIN T M Wetmore Pittsburg C C Mc Donald Buffalo Jose M Herrera Havana FIFTH AVENUE H G Breckenridge Virginia J W Palmer Providence GOTHAM Mr and Mrs IL IL Kountze Omaha Neb HOLLAND Hert L Clark Philadelphia Beach Thompson San Francisco VICTORIA E Kingdon London N R Potter Philadelphia WALDORF ASTORIA C M Hewitt Chicago
Weather Record and Forecast From Washington
The atmosphere shows little change with the Atlantic high blocking the eastward flow. Thunder showers remain west of the Appalachians with heavy rains in Virginia and North Carolina and other regions including Alabama and the lake country. Forecast calls for showers in the lake region and Ohio Valley early in the week with high temperatures east of the Rockies and varied coastal winds along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
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Peace Conference Developments and Proposed Maritime Court
American delegates discuss the debt collection doctrine with General Porter reporting positive signals from Britain France Germany and Russia. A German prize court proposal outlines a two admiral and three arbitration court for maritime cases with initial 10000 per belligerent power and potential neutral protections. Andrew Carnegie to arrive Monday to arrange the Peace Palace cornerstone with an invitation to July 4 reception.
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Reverend Norman Fox obituary notes Morristown mayor election
The Rev Dr Norman Fox, former Morristown Mayor, died after appendicitis aboard ship returning from Europe. Born 1836 in Glens Falls, he served as chaplain in the Civil War, taught religion, edited The Central Baptist, and led sociological and temperance work. He practiced in Morristown from the late 1880s and served on the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics board. Funeral plans pending.
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Appomattox
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Missouri
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Washington
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New York
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New Jersey
Rev Dr Charles W Fritts Dies Pastoral Leader 30 Years
The Rev Dr Charles W Fritts longtime pastor emeritus of the Reformed Church at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson died yesterday at his sister Mrs J P Mesicks Hudson home. He served on the church missions board and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary board, held a Doctor of Divinity from Rutgers, and was president of the city synod. The funeral is set for today at 3 oclock at the Reformed Church.
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Rutgers College
Berlin Ramsay Dies in Chicago Hospital
Berlin Ramsay a wealthy Wisconsin brewer died tonight in a Chicago hospital. He was a cousin of Lord Ramsay the English chemist.
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Berlin Ramsay
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Lord Ramsay
Dr Israel Hart Dies at 79 Pennington Native Civil War Surgeon
Pennington New Jersey June 23 Dr Israel Hart formerly assistant surgeon of the 38th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers and a physician of rare ability died this morning at age seventy nine. He was born at the Winner homestead near Pennington and educated at Pennington Seminary Lafayette College and the University of Pennsylvania. He practiced locally until 1863 when he joined the army as assistant surgeon and served through the Civil War returning to medicine afterward until a few years ago.
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Thomas G. O'Brien Dies After Illness in Buffalo
Thomas G. O'Brien aged thirty eight dies in Buffalo after seven weeks of illness. Brother of Fire Commissioner John H. O'Brien and Mayor secretary Frank M. O'Brien, he served as secretary and booking manager for Shea Amusement Company with theatres in Buffalo Cleveland and Toronto. He also worked as secretary of the Buffalo Baseball Club and was a former city editor of the Buffalo Enquirer.
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Obituary Notes and Local Deaths Stir the City
Obituary notes record the death of Emory Foster editor at age thirty six from acute Brights disease at his Amsterdam avenue home after a work session. Remains of Howard Brewster Wilson host of Remington Typewriter Company died after an operation in Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. George Edward Vernon former Newport Assembly member dies at 61. A double funeral will be held in New Rochelle for Colonel Charles A. Denike’s son and his father in law, Richard A Lotnes and Madeline Denike.
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Obituaries and Funeral Notices From The Tribune
Death notices listed for Chamberlin Coriell Denike Fox Fritts Kyle Suffern Wheeler Wilson Wormser with funeral details and dates. Notices cite Hartford Morristown New Rochelle New York locations and schedule services through late June 1907.
Woodlawn Cemetery access via Harlem trains and trolleys
The Woodlawn Cemetery is accessible from Grand Central Station by Harlem trains Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys and by carriage. Lots priced from 125 dollars. Telephone 4855 Gramercy for Book of Views or representative. Office at 20 East 23d Street New York City. Undertakers Frank Fe Campbell C 241 3 West 294th St Chapels private and public ambulances Tel 1328.
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Tribune Postal Rates and World Office Network Listing
Special Notices reveal the Tribune details on postal rates, subscriptions, and countrywide and international mail options. It lists offices in New York and abroad with extensive hotel and city connections for readers and advertisers.
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