Amusements and Shows Listed Across Incomplete Page
A fragmented listing of amusements and theatre acts including aerial gardens and various acts. Mentions of The Midnight Sons Havana Luna Park and The Girl from Rector's appear among other venue cues and show names with unclear details.
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Aerial Gardens
Missis
Mriehtot Breath Park
Pain
Brcadty
The
Midnight Sons
Havana
Conet Island
Dreanland
Luna Park
PALY
Ciimaz Egexs Musee
Rector’s
New York Daily Tribune Official Details
The New York Daily Tribune lists The Tritune Association as owner and publisher. Official offices are Tribune Building at 154 Nassau Street, New York. Officers include President Oyden Milix, Henry W reckett as secretary, and James M. Barrett as treasurer.
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The
Tritune Association
New York
Tribune
Nasseu Street
Oyden Milix
Henry Wreckett
James M. Barrett
Senate Debates Tea Tax and Tax Questions Rise
Senate discusses Tilman amendment defeat and moves to income and corporation tax questions. Aldrich Cummins Dixon and Flint speak. House session reports none. Fore ign war items include suffragettes arrests and cross channel aeroplane attempts. Domestic notes cover pensions, whiskey ruling, bank fund returns, and city developments. Weather forecast indicates fair skies.
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Congress
Senate
Tilman
Aldrich
Cumsins
Dixon and Flint
House
London
House of Commons
England
America
Canada
Herman Latham
Count de Lambert
Henry Farman
Calais
Rafael Reyes
Clark
Peking
Louis Lecoulteux de Caumont
Buffalo
Kiel
Caracas
Rudolph Dolge
Imataca
Orinoco Corporation
Washington
Taft
MacVeagh
Treasury
Richmond
Gould
Edith May Woodill
Robert E Eastman
Maryland
Eastman
Harry S. Henry
Philadelphia
Kansas City
Paris
George de Mare
Henry Charles Somerset
Lora Henry Somerset
Paddock
Franklin County
Kilburn
Francis E. Spinner
United States
Herkimer
X. Y City
Osccar
Europe
Manhattan
Broughton Brandenburg
Cleveland
Times
American Sugar Refining Company
Bondholiers
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
American Sugar Company
Rockaway Beach
Coler
Commissioners of Accounts
Metz
J. P. Morgan & Co
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Dillon
Sing Sing
Louis
McClellan
Duffy
Brooklyn Polie Department
Pintyn Elder
Newark
McCusker
Fifth Avenue
Daylight ordinance faces timetable and schedule hurdles
The proposed Cincinnati daylight saving measure aims to shift clocks for longer summer days, inviting debate over practicality. Critics point to disrupted rail and postal timetables, needing new schedules May 1 and October 1, and widespread instruction for travelers and workers amid the change.
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Cincinnati
England
Railroad Time Reform Proposal Seeks Unified Schedules
A discussion argues for standardized hours and clocks, noting trains leaving at 8 a m true time and 4 a m shifts would upset timetable norms for seven and five months respectively. It urges voluntary adoption by employers and even suggests adjusting labor hours rather than clocks, favoring a Washington approach.
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Cincinnati
Columbus
Washington
Bingham McLe ll an clash over Police Department control
The piece argues that noise over the Duffy case distracts from police administration issues in the city. It praises General Bingham for challenging Tammany allies and the Sullivan faction, noting his honest stance harms corrupt protection Rackets and helps shut down vice districts with State Excise backing. The question remains how City Hall will react.
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Duffy
General Bingham
Tammany Alliance
Sullivan Clan
Murphy
Tammany
McCarren
Bingham
State Excise Department
Public Opinion and Law May Not Always Align
Dr. Kirchwey of Columbia argues that law is the formal expression of public opinion yet notes wide variation in state laws while public sentiment remains stable. He calls for aroused public opinion to harmonize statutes and stresses that some laws no longer reflect current views or were never aligned with them.
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Kirchwey
Columbia University Law School
National Civic Federation
Gill
Beresford Urges Empire Navy Unity For Two Power Standard
Lord Charles Beresford argues the two power standard requires a unified empire navy. Britain alone cannot sustain it. Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa must contribute proportionate parts to a quintuple navy, with interchangable components. He warns Germany spends more and Britain would fall behind.
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Charles Beresford
United Kingdom
Dominion of Canada
Commonwealth of Australia
Dominion of New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Farone
Germany
Great Britain
Imperial navy plan unites colonies and strengthens empire
The author argues Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa could form a proportional imperial fleet, tying defense to unity. A navy shared by colonies would deter rivals, solidify imperial power, and foster centripetal unity, with each colony relying on the collective strength while staying within the empire.
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Canada
Treasury
Austria- Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Australia
United Kingdom
New Fenland
Union of South Africa
Empire
Charles
Philadelphia Ruler Honored Despite Past Misrule
The Philadelphia press portrays Israel W. Durham with sympathy after his death, noting his practical politics and generosity. While some papers recall a broken pledge to Elkins and a political crisis under Quay, others praise his personal kindness and lament the loss of a once powerful boss. The coverage reflects mixed public sentiment amid municipal reform.
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Philadelphia
Israel W. Durham
Philadelphia Press
the Inquirer
Durham
John P. Elkins
Ledger
New York City
Parcels Post Proposals and Public Good Considerations
The article discusses ongoing proposals for a comprehensive parcels post system. It argues lowering transport costs could boost trade, noting current mail and express options are inefficient for light but valuable goods and rural customers. It weighs fiscal impact, equity among merchants, and volume limits, warning the reform is complex and must fit postal capacity and public welfare.
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New York
Tea Tax Battle and Bullfight Reform Hints
The Senate rejected Tillman’s plan for a protective tea tax amid Southern opposition. Florida senators also deserted on tea, while South Carolina tea gardens face conversion to pineapple plantations to gain Senate interest. The Spanish Interior Minister reportedly favors reducing bullfight cruelty, possibly by abolishing them.
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Senate
Interior
Kaiser backs Prince Rislow in revenue bill row
The Kaiser’s support for Prince Rislow in the clash with the Reichstag over revenue measures is reiterated, praising the Chancellor as a thoroughly loyal servant and noting the clear alignment between ruler and minister.
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Prince Rislow
Reichstag
Treves vivisection stance misrepresented in American letter
In a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association Professor W Wheen of Philadelphia rebuts a misquote of Sir Frederic Treves claiming opposition to vivisection. The note highlights Treves as a leading surgeon and notes his roles with the British Red Cross and in South Africa. Also mentioned is a Civil Service Commission table on District of Columbia Maryland and Virginia appointment quotas and Congresses action to adjust apportionment rules.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
W. Wheen
Philadelphia
Frederic Treves
Sir Frederick
Keen
England
America
Frederick Treves
King Edward
South Africa
British Red Cross
Federal Civil Service Commission
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Congress
Shakespeare Society Plans Fourth Annual Stratford Performances
Circulars announce the British Empire Shakespeare Society's third annual performances of Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon directed by Acton Hond on July 27 28 29 and 30 with efforts to attract American visitors aided by reduced rail rates Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig Holstein presides among titled spectators.
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British Empire Shakespeare Society
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
Acton Hond
America
England
Marie Louise
Schleswig Holstein
President's whiskey hearing stretches two days in June
The President spent the morning hearing whiskey arguments from 9 to 1 and then met with the Cabinet to discuss appropriations and department staffing. Lawyers have until July 10 to file briefs, with ten days for replies, after which Taft will review and decide. The President will attend Yale commencement in New Haven tomorrow.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Bose
Taft
Archibald Butt
Mischler
Secret Service
Olympia
New Haven
Yale
Helen Taft
Robert Taft
Silas Witherbee
Port Henry
New York Lake Champlain
Siloman
Louise Taft
Walbridge
Howard Taft
Henry W. Taft
Daniel and
Taylor
Vreeland
Knowland
Denby
Watson
Washington society notes on summer travel and marriages
The Tribune reports social figures heading to Maine and New York for summer vacations and seaside stays, including diplomats, officers, and their families. It notes trimmed Washington homes, upcoming trips to Lenox, Bar Harbor, Kennebunkport, and White Mountains, plus a marriage at Whitehall Aquasco Maryland.
New York Society Sails for Europe on Autumn Returns
Among those booked for Europe today are Mr and Mrs J Allen Townsend and Miss Viola Townsend with Miss Adeline Townsend on an automobile tour through England and Scotland returning in autumn to Ardsley. DeLancey Nicoll and Daniel Lathrop Lawton will travel in England and the Continent until the fall. Levi P Morton and wife sailed for Europe to remain abroad until end of August. Arthur Scott Burden and wife, after Newport weekend, returned to their country place near Hempstead Long Island. Gerald Livingston Hoyt and wife will return.
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Europe
J. Allen Townsend
Viola
Adeline Townsend
England
Scotland
Ardsley
DeLancey Nicoll
Daniel Lathrop Lawton
George Perkins Lawton
Levi P. Morton
Arthur Scott Burden
Newport
Hempstead
Long Island
Howland and Wallace Secretly Wed in San Francisco
Samuel S Howland brother in law to August Belmont and a racing figure in New York and Washington married Leslie Mosby Wallace in San Francisco last Wednesday. The license was obtained quietly from County Clerk Mulcregg and Judge Cooper officiated. The couple sailed that day on the Manchuria to Hong Kong and were later seen at a hotel before departure.
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San Francisco
Samuel S. Howland
August Belmont
New York
Washington
Leslie Mosby Wallace
Manchuria
Hong Kong
Howland
Belmont Park Racetrack
Newport Social Notes Signal Summer Visitors
Newport society chatter notes Mr. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt may stay in Harbour Court with Mrs. Vanderbilt Brown away in Europe. Mrs. John Nicholas Brown hosts and guests include Miss Mildred Townsend and Miss Margaret Stewart. Multiple New York Boston and Philadelphia social figures arrive or plan visits as season begins.
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the Tribune
Newport
George W. Vanderbilt
Joseph Harriman
Mildred Townsend
Boston
Annie Lyman
Margaret Stewart
New York
L. L. Lorillard
Benjamin F. Clyde
Bryn Mawr
Penn
Anna Sands
James V. Parker
J. D. R. Baldwin
Europe
J. J. Mason
Charlies P. H. Gilbert
Paulding Fosdick
John R. Drexel
Alice Drexel
Newport Society
Dudley G. Gautier
Lise Benard Stewart
J. Stewart Barney
Shields Cottage
William H. Patten
Bar Harbor Social Notes
Bar Harbor Me June 3 Report of summer arrivals includes Mr and Mrs W Gurnee of New York and Misses Belle Marie Gurnee returning from Europe. New York residents Mrs William Kingsland and Mrs William Tillinghast to occupy Dutch cottage. Mrs Harry Lake to occupy Talleyrand cottage. Ex Judge George L C Graham expected with servants arriving to prep cottage. Potts and Post families also noted at Malvern.
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Tribune
Bar Harbor
Gurnee
New York
Belle and
Marie Gurnee
William H. Kingsland
William
Tillinghast
Clarence Post
the Malvern
Lenox Social Scene News From The Berkshires
Lenox notes report illness of Mrs M O Stone in New York and a wedding party gathering for Miss Susan R Sedgwick. Guests traveling include Dr Arthur W Swann and John Swann, with others arriving at Stockbridge and Lenox hotels for season events and fund subscriptions.
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the Tribune
Lenox
M. O. Stone
New York
Curtis
John Swann
Main Street
Swann-Sedgwick
Eben Norton
Bainbridge Colby
Alexander Sedgwick
Dorothy Whitney
Lorraine Roosevelt
Dorothy Tuckerman
Janet Dana
Lenox Concert Fund
M. Millard
M. B. Watson
James Bailey
Bailey
Holly
Oscar Jarvis
Brooklyn
Heaton Hall
Stockbridge
S. Richard Ward
I. T. Yates
William R. Pomeroy
William 3. Brown
Henry Leaves All To Hospitals From Estate Will
The estate of Harry S. Henry about 3500 dollars goes to five Philadelphia hospitals for beds for white children after widow and two sisters death. Henry, a noted art collector, recently bought Miller's Going Work Dawn of Morning for unknown price. The will directs all paintings sold in New York after death.
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Philadelphia
Harry S. Henry
Henry
Miller
New York
Mayor Proclaims Children’s Day for Hudson Fulton Event
Mayor McClellan issued a proclamation urging public cooperation for Children’s Day on October 2 tied to the Hudson-Fulton celebration. The Hudson Fulton Commission sets a pageant date and seeks parental involvement and early classroom preparation. The committee invites inquiries at 1135 Broadway to organize educational and cultural activities.
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McClellan
Hudson-Fulton
Childre
Broadway
Horeb Society for Deaf Mutes Absorbed by New Jewish Institute
In a letter to The Tribune H P Mendes president of the Horeb Society for Deaf Mutes announces that their institution on Lexington Avenue will be absorbed by the Institution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes under new Jewish management. The Horeb Society’s work will continue under its old name. The letter is dated June 29 1909.
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Congress
Montana National Bison Range
The
Bison Society
W. T. Hornaday
Boards of Trade
Charles E. Senff
Willam P. Clyde
Andrew Carnegie
the Tribune
Lexington Avenue
Horeb Society For Deaf Mutes
H. Pereira Mendes
New York
Kaiser Abandons North Sea Yachting Trip
Berlin dated June 29 reports Emperor William has given up his traditional summer voyage to the North Sea. He will stay in Germany until the current political crisis is settled, according to Tagliche Rundschau.
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Kaiser
Berlin
Emperor William
North Sea
Tagliche Rundschau
Germany
Ambassador Leishman Arrives in Genoa for Rome Trip
John G A Leishman the new American Ambassador to Italy has landed in Genoa from Constantinople with Mrs Leishman and Mrs P C Knox wife of the Secretary of State They will drive to Rome where he expects to arrive tomorrow night and assume duties as Griscom successor
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Genoa
John G. A. Leishman
Italy
Lioyd C. Griscom
Constantinople
Rome
National library meeting opens with 700 delegates
The American Library Association began its thirty first annual meeting in Bretton Woods New Hampshire with over seven hundred delegates in attendance and expectations for further growth. The morning session centered on Library Co-ordination focusing on storage and reservoir libraries as system centers. Speakers included F P Hill Brooklyn Public Library and N D C Hodges Cincinnati Public Library among others from Hagerstown California and Minneapolis.
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Bretton Woods
N. H
American Library Association
F. P. Hill
Brooklyn Public Library
N. D
Bequest of About 500000 to Rose Institute
Terre Haute Ind June 29 The Rose Polytechnic Institute received a bequest of about 500000 from Susan Frances Heminway a principal heir of Mr Rose founder of the school She also leaves the Rose homestead a full city block for the use of the school
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Terre Haute
Ind
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Susan Frances Heminway
Rose
New Librarian Chosen for St Louis Public Library
Arthur E. Bostwick chosen to succeed Frederick M. Cruden as librarian of the St Louis Public Library Cruden resigns due to ill health installment announced by telegraph from New York.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Arthur E. Bostwick
New York Public Library
Frederick M. Cruden
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Arthur J. Peabody
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Sea Girl
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St. Thomas's Episcopal Church
C. Ernest Smith
Joseph Egbert Williams
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