Lord Portmans Asses and a Royal Engagement in 1908
In London society news a sensational note on Lord Portman, aged eighty, rumored to marry Mrs Livingstone Learmonth of Hanford near Blandford, with history of Portman landholdings and donkey milking for milk supply. Also Prince Frederick of Schaumberg Lippe plans to wed Princess Thyra of Denmark, linking vast Bohemian estates and a famous Nachod castle, amid dynastic implications and a detailed peerage debate on deceased wife's sister marriages and retroactive legitimization.
Queen Helena of Italy Nurs ing Staff Change sparks royal protocol
Private letters detail Queen Helena entrusting nursery duties for her son the Prince of Piedmont to Miss Margaret Brown after birth. Brown, a London trained graduate, stays on in royal service after Italian Ambassador facilitated her hire. The Queen previously used Piedmontese wet nurses for older children but now personally nurses her son and Princess Giovanna, marking a shift in royal custom.
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Italy
Helena
Prince of Piedmont
Margaret Brown
Church of England
London
Peres
Prince of
Piedmont
Giovanna
Marquise DE Fonte
Obituary of Frederick W. Flint Yachtman Leader at Larchmont
Frederick W. Flint, a prominent yachtsman on Long Island Sound, died at his Larchmont home after a three day illness. He helped organize the Larchmont Yacht Club and served as commodore. Flint owned the 49 foot sloop Nymph and won several T races years ago. He belonged to the New York Yacht Club and New York Athletic Club, among others. He was 57, born in Pekin Illinois, son of Thompson A lint a Manhattan banker. He left an estate valued about 1000 dollars and is survived by a wife two daughters and four sons.
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Prince Frederick
G Schaumberg-Lippe
Thyra
Denmark
Frederick
Europe
Amadeus
Spain
Letitia Bonaparte
Frederick of
Schaumberg-Lippe
Germany
Bohemia
Nachod
Wallenstein
Ferdinand II
Octavian Piccolomini
Piccolomini
Vandyck
Italy
Lowlands
France
Nechod
Schaumhe Piccolominisberg-Lippe
Prince Frederick of
Prince Frederick of Schomberg-Lippe
Ratiberitz
Retiberitz
Francis I
Austrie
Alexander I
Russia
Freerick William III
Prussia
Napoleon
Reiiboritz
Tie Tre
Princess Louise
Prince William of
Waldeck
Pyrmont
Prinee Thora
Wblerica
Daser
United Kingdom
Debrett
Edward
House of Lords
Frederick W. Flint
Long Island Sound
Larchmont
Mr. Flint
Larchmont Club
Flint
New York Yacht Club
New York Athletic Club
Pekin
Ill
Thompson Alint
Manhattan
Continental Bank
Walter O Wilkinson organist and composer dies in Mount Vernon
Walter O Wilkinson, noted English born organist and composer, died suddenly yesterday in Mount Vernon. He served at St Thomas and St Michael's churches, trained boys for the St Paul oratorio, led the Bank Clerks' Glee Club, and held posts at St Mary the Virgin and Tompkins Avenue Baptist. He leaves a wife a son and a daughter. funeral date pending arrival of his son from Texas.
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Walter O. Wilkinson
Mount Vernon
England
Lincoln Cathedral
St. Thomas’s Church
William Henry Warren
St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Charles Frederic Ulrich Dies in Germany of Pneumonia
News reached this city of the artist Charles Frederic Ulrich dying of pneumonia in Germany. Born here in 1858 he studied at the National Academy of Design then Munich for eight years at Ecole des Beaux Arts and with Lin denschmidt. His painting The Glass Blowers shown in 1888 was his best known work. He later created In the Land of Promise winning the Clarke prize and became an Associate Academician. His home was in Venice.
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Charles Frederic Ulrich
Germany
Ulrich
National Academy of Design
Munich
Ecole Des Beaux Arts
Lofftz and Lindenschmidt
Clarke
Academy of Design
Venice
Buffalo Bill marks 25 years as wildlife showman
Colonel William F Cody known as Buffalo Bill celebrates a quarter century as an exhibitor of American wildlife in Washington. The anniversary events drew President's family, General Carr, General Merritt, and many army officers, with Cabinet members and lawmakers in attendance. Quentin Roosevelt rode in the Deadwood coach and met the Indians during the show.
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Washington
William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Eugene A. Carr
Wesley Merritt
Cody
Western Plains
Colonel Cody
Army
Quentin Roosevelt
Deadwood
Explosion Kills Gunner in Fleet Pass Salute
In Eureka California on May 19 a 4 inch cannon used to salute the Atlantic fleet exploded killing Isaac Davis the gunner and injuring four others including Miss Church Miss McDonough and Eugene Stone plus Mrs Frank Slingaby. Hundreds gathered at Centreville Beach to watch the passage of the fleet. An old cannon from Ferndale caused the disaster.
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Eureka
Cal
Ferndale
Eel River Valley
Centreville Beach
Isaac Davis
Miss Church
Grizzly Bluff
Miss McDonough
Eugene Stone
Frank Slingaby
Rare Watteau fan leads Carroll Graef sale at Fifth Avenue
R S Talmadee, a fan collector, bought a white quill fan from the Watteau period yesterday at Carroll Graef’s Fifth Avenue Art Galleries. The item, framed in mother-of-pearl with gold and carved figures, drew praise as among the jewelled pieces of the auction. The day’s results reached 2220 dollars, with the total for the sale so far at 413593.75. The auction continues daily through the week.
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R. S. Talmadee
Carroll & Graef
Fifth Avenue
M. Maltby
Allen
Bishop Burgess Speaks on Canon Law at Long Island Diocese
At the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island convention in Garden City Bishop Frederick Burgess criticizes a proposed preamble altering the constitution. He warns that declaring creeds sufficient undermines the catechism and liturgy, urging preservation of traditional doctrine and apostolic succession. He outlines rules for open pulpit talks and notes officers and financials: secretary elected, treasurer reports a balance of 5,910.87 with disbursements and receipts listed.
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House of Deputies
Robert Rogers
Brooklyn
John H. Lattig
Alexander E. Orr
Rigoletto Delights Audience At The American Theatre
Ivan Abramson's Italian grand opera company presented Rigoletto at the American Theatre last night with M. Pacini as Rigoletto and Mme Novelli as Gilda earning top applause. Delli Franci as the Duke also impressed as the crowd lingered after the second act. In Trovatore is scheduled for this afternoon and Alda for tonight.
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Ivan Abramson
Itelian Grand Opera Company
M. Pacini
M. Arcangeli
Mme. Novelli
Gilda
M. Delli Franci
Mantua
Alda
Opera Company to Disband After New York Performance
The Knickerbocker Opera Company under S Kronberg failed to perform at the Majestic Theatre last night and an unofficial statement said the company will disband. The group had planned a summer season with prior Boston performances before Monday night. The chorus learned of the decision only moments before eight o clock.
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Knickerbocker Opera Company
S. Kronberg
Majestic Theatre
Opera
Boston
the Majestic
Sothern Returns to Academy for Dundreary Run
Mr Sothern reopened at the Academy of Music with a three week engagement presenting Lord Dundreary to an eager crowd. The program shifts to If I Were King next week and a four play slate including Hamlet Don Quixote If I Were King and Lord Dundreary follows.
Chauncey Olcott Opens Week at Grand Opera House
Chauncey Olcott began a week’s engagement at the Grand Opera House on Monday before a large season audience. He performs in O’Neill of Derry, the romantic Irish drama seen earlier at Liberty Theatre, with his singing and brogue drawing wide welcome on the West Side and Broadway.
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Chauncey Olcott
Opera House
O'Neill
Derry
Liberty Theatre
Mr. Olcott
Broadway
Dancer and the King opens at Lincoln Square Theatre
Cecil Spooner began a Monday night engagement in The Dancer and the King a romantic play by Charles E Blaney and J Searle Dawley at Lincoln Square Theatre. The production runs in four acts with two performances daily except Sundays.
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Cecil Spooner
Lincoln Square Theatre
the King
Charles E. Blaney
J. Searle Dawley
Vaudeville acts at Colonial and Alhambra theatres this week
Variety theatres present Eva Tanguay at the Colonial with Charles F. Lemon Willa Holt Wakefield and Laddie CU assisting Cecilia Loftus headlines the Alhambra with Karno's performers in A Night in the Slums of London Jack Wilson and company Elsie Fay the Eight Hoboes George Primrose and the Novellos at the Fifth Avenue Two daily performances The Love Waltz headlines at the 125th Street Theatre with Sadie Jansel Charles Grapewin and Anna Chance among others.
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Eva Tanguay
Colonial Theatre
Charles F. Lemon
Willa Holt Wakefield
Laddie CU
Cecilia Loftus
Alhambra Theatre
Karno
London
Jack Wilson
Elsie Fay
George Primrose
Novellos
Fifth Avenue Theatre
125Th Street Theatre
Sadie Jansel
Charles Grapewin
Anna Chance
Doctors Tiffany Will Case Draws Court Scrutiny
In Winsted Connecticut on May 19, the Tiffany will case centers on executors and a residuary legacy in a 700000 dollar estate. Heirs challenge the will arguing mental unsoundness and undue influence. testimony includes Grace Tiffany Maisch, Judge Van Alstyne, and witnesses Prentice Marsh and Brown all affirming the will was signed February 6, 1907. Nephews Tiffany contest the document as not the final will citing Dr Tiffany’s age illness and infirmity.
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Tribune
Winsted
Conn
Waldo Morse
New York
Charles Comfort Tiffany
Charles P. Howland
Tiffany
Grace Tiffany Maisch
Otis Henry Tiffany
Lawrence van Alstyne
Sharon
E. Parmelee Prentice
Robert C. Marsh
Howard E. Brown
Dr. Tiffany
Joseph B. Tiffany
Charles O. Tiffany
Yonkers
N. Y
Littleton visits Thaw in jail amid thaw rumors
Martin W. Littleton, Thaw’s former defense attorney, met with Harry Thaw at Matteawan jail in New York, denying plans to change counsel. The visit touched on unpaid bills, Thaw’s sanity, and possible moves to reopen the case or seek new proceedings if release fails. Thaw reportedly favors a shift to Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane if further confinement occurs.
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Poughkeepsie
Martin W. Littleton
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Thaw
Mr. Littleton
Littleton
New York
Matteawan
Hudson River State Hospital For
Pilgrim
Well Known Benedictine Abbot Edelbroch Dies
Right Rev Abbot Alexius Edelbroch of St Benedict dies after a long illness at his home on Beach avenue He led St Anselm's Church at 152nd Street and Tinton Avenue in The Bronx Born in Westphalia Germany on September 12 1543 he came to the U S in 1850 He aided the Benedictines in Minnesota and briefly served Chippewa Indians His funeral is at the Bronx church today with burial at St John’s Abbey Minnesota.
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Alexius Edelbroch
Order of St. Benedict
Beach Avenue
St. Anselm’s
St. Cloud
Beatty
Penn
Rome
Minnesota
Dians
Bronx
Edelbroch
St. John’s Abbey
Princeton Seniors Rate Favorites In 1908 Class
The Princeton University class of 1908 lists its top picks and traits. Hamill of Terre Haute is voted most popular, while Harlan of Bel Air is named best all round athlete. Seventy nine engage in self support and nineteen wear glasses.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
H. A. Garfield
Williams College
H? O
Tennyson
Wagner
Nassau
Wellesley
Harvard
Chalmers M. Hamill
Terre Haute
Ind
E. H. W. Harlan
Bel Air
Dense Channel fog delays four steamships at Cherbourg
A dense fog settles over the Channel causing significant delays to the steamships Pennsylvania Oceanic Teutonic and Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse running to and from Cherbourg. The fog disrupts schedules and speeds up the reporting of late arrivals.
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Cherbourg
Pennsylvania
Oceanic
Teutonic
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
Weather Forecast From Washington News Brief
Official record and forecast report notes general rains in the Ohio Valley and southern states, with showers in the northwest and western plateau. Temperatures vary, with warm spells in the plains, and rain or showers predicted for New England, the mid Atlantic and Rocky Mountain districts. Winds shift along coasts and lakes, with southeast or southwest breezes and fresh to brisk conditions. Forecasts call for rain in New England and Eastern New York today, improving by Thursday, and fair, warmer conditions in several districts with variable winds.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
East Gulf
South Atlantic States
North Pacific Coast
Ohio
Mississippi Valley
Plains States
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Rocky Mountain
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Lower Lakes
Upper Lakes
Grand Banks
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Eight Bishops Voted at Methodist Conference in Baltimore
At the Methodist Episcopal General Conference in Baltimore on May 19 the retirement of Missionary Bishop James H. Thoburn of India was announced with appreciation. The body elected eight bishops this session, defying a board's six-bishop recommendation, and discussed union talks with the Methodist Protestant and United Brethren denominations.
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Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
James H. Thoburn
India
Bshops
Conerence
Board of Bishops
Committee On Episcopacy
Thoburn
Warren
Pittsburg
Church Union
Methodist Book Concern
Committee On Missions
Committee On
Home Department
General Conferences
Congress of the
United States
H. Times
Williamsport
Penn
General Conference
Committee On Education
Freedmen’s Aid and
Freedmen’s Aid Society
Methodist Protestant
Methodist Episcopal
W. J. Bryan
Lyric Hall
J. F. Hanly
Indiana
Methodist Protestant General Synod
Thomas H. Lewis
United Brethren Church
Congregational Church
Mr Cleveland Still Improving Says Hotel Manager
The Lakewood Hotel manager told The Tribune that there is no truth in reports of a relapse in former President Cleveland. He described gradual, satisfactory improvement and noted convalescence continues. A Princeton professor close to the family confirmed good progress and slow recovery, with a return to Princeton perhaps in a couple of months.
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Tribune
Lakewood
N. J
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
Cleveland
Today’s Big Meetings And Dinners Across New York
Free admission to major museums and a packed schedule of professional and social events. Include meetings at Hotel Astor Waldorf Astoria and Plaza, a Rainy Day Club gathering, National Association of Manufacturers dinner, New Jersey Medical Society dinner, Medico Legal Society event, Eclectic Medical College commencement at Carnegie Lyceum, and a 69th Regiment review at the Lexington armory.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Zoological Gardens
American Association of Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers
Hotel Astor
Southwestern Task Committee
Ways and
National Society of the New England Women
Lizzie Woodbury Law
Arverne
Long Island
Rainy Day Club
Frances Fearn
Methodist Church
141St Street
Willis Avenue
Eclectic Medical College
Carnegie Lyceum
69Th Regiment
Cardinal Logue
Lexington Avenue
Renomination Talk Shifts in Syracuse Republican Ranks
In the Montgomery Schoharie district state Senator William Wemple tops the renomination slate as the first GOP senator to oppose racing bills. The convention was unanimous on the final ballot despite Schoharie delegates’ lingering opposition. Boss Barnes of Albany looms large, and the piece argues direct primary nominations could alter party action, though not guarantee Wemple’s defeat. It lauds primaries for voter expression and turnout, noting reforms may enhance party sentiment despite practical limits.
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Syracuse Herald
William W. Wemple
Montgomery-Schenectady-Schoharie
Schoharie
Wemple
Barnes
Albany
Congress
Schenectady County
The
New-York Tribune
Hughes
Tribune
Wemple Nomination Seen As Surface Harmony In Party
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle notes Senator Wemple is renominated without opposition amid glee from Barnes allies over anti racing bills. It highlights May timing as a sign of trouble and cites Schoharie County delegates opposing the renomination, with broader predictions of a hard cut in other counties.
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Barnes
Wemple
Hughes
Schenectady
Wen
West New York
Schoharie County
Senator Wemple
New-York Tribune
Election Day and the rise of reform in history
A concise reflection notes that fall stories wait for Election Day, hinting that history shows gradual reformers often emerge slowly but ultimately challenge entrenched power, delivering lasting political pressure. The passage implies recurrent cycles of delay followed by decisive action against bosses.
Carpenter Hoag marriage in New York City church
The Tribune notes a marriage at the Church of the Resurrection in New York City on Tuesday May 19. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Arthur Duane Pell. Adeleine Knowlton Hoag, daughter of Dr and Mrs William E Hoag, married Francis Newton Carpenter of Newark New Jersey. Notices require full name and address.
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Carpenter—Hoag
New York City
Church of the Resurrection
Arthur Duane Pell
Adeleine Knowlton
William E. Hoag
Francis Newton Carpenter
Newark
N. J
Pardee
Obituaries from Mount Vernon to Albany dated May 1908
A string of death notices lists victims by surname Camp Crain Howland Pardee Pugsley Ryan Samuels Sterry Taylor Tilton Westcott Wilson and relatives. Entries note dates May 1908, residences in Mount Vernon Syracuse New Haven Brooklyn Albany and London with funeral plans and private interments.
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George P
Helen Lo Wilson
First Street
Elizabeth D. Samuels
Wick
Cordelia M. Sterry
George E. Ham J. Sterry
Tabor
Sarah. Pardee
Frances G. Tilton
Georgeina Park
William CC. Westcott
Julia Mt . Wilson
Helen H. Ryan
Mary
In Memoriam Buchanan Adelaide Taylor Buchanan
In loving memory of Adelaide Taylor Buchanan who passed into rest May 2, 1896. Accessible by Harlem trains from Grand Central Station and Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys. Office contact at 20 East 234th Street New York City for Book of Views or representative. Carriage lots available from $150. Telephone 4855 Gramercy.
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Buchanan
Adelaide Taylor Buchanan
Harlem
Grand Centeral Station
Webster and
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
East
New York City
Frank E Campbell Private and public ambulances
Frank E Campbell at 2413 West 234 Street advertises private and public ambulances with Chelsea telephone listings. Merritt is described as a world-renowned undertaker with a single business location at 5th Ave and 19th Street, claiming to be the largest in the world with Chelsea phone numbers 124 and 125.
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Frank E. Campbell
West
Chelsea
Merritt
Th Ave
19Th St
Aspirants' Applications At Uptown Tribune Office
The New York Tribune opens a file of applications of selected aspirants for various positions at its Uptown Office No 1364 Broadway between 36th and 37th Streets. Office hours are 9 a m to 6 p m.
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NEW York Tribune
Broadway
Ofices
Nassau
the Tribune
Danes Ing House
Strand
American Express Company
Thomas Cook & Son
Ludgate
Circum Brown, Shipley & Co
Pall Mall
Speyer Brothers
Lothbury
London
Paris
John Monroe & Co
Rue Scribe
John Wanamaker
Tribune Subscription Rates and Offices Worldwide
The Tribune offers mail subscriptions to domestic and foreign addresses with flexible change options and various price plans. It lists daily, weekly, and almanac editions, with rates for U S, Canada, and foreign countries, plus a network of domestic offices and international agents for subscriptions and advertising.
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Mexico
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Bronx
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Philippines
Tribune Almanac
Tribune
New York City
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