Amusements listings from New York theaters
A condensed catalog of theater showtimes and vaudeville acts across venues such as the Academy of Music Alhambra Lyceum and more. Entries include titles like If I Were King The World in Wax The Merry Widow and The Yankee Prince with varying start times and venues.
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Academy OF Music
Alhambra
ASTOR
Blaney
Aes Lyceum
Circle
Colonial
Coney Island
Luna Park
Bostock
Daly
Madison Square Gardicx
New Amsterdam
New York
Mary's Lamb Savoy
Wallace’s
New York Daily Tribune Details Ownership and Office
The Daily Tribune is owned and published by The Tribune Association, a New York corporation. Its principal office is in Tribune Building, 155 Nassau Street, New York, with Capden Mills as president and Nathaniel Tuttle as secretary and treasurer.
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The
Tribune Association
New York
Congress and world turmoil fill the morning news
Senate discussion on the Aldrich Vreeland currency bill ends with plans to pass today and adjourn Saturday. Greek island Samos rebels threaten the Turkish hold, while a Russian official is badly wounded in St. Petersburg. The Bank of England cuts discount rates, and other global incidents include typhoons, mine fires, ship damage, and political shifts across nations.
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Congress
Senate
House
Samos
Turkey
St. Petersburg
M. Ostrogradski
Bank of England
England
M. Cambon
London
Falliéres
Edward
Margaret Hamilton
Cruce
Peter the Great
Gulf of Finland
Reval
Hankow
China
Kwane- Si
Port Arthur
Ont
Combesticc
Richard Wainwright
Seaton Schroeder
Messrs
Armour and Patten
Chicago Board of Trade
Stephen D. Lee
The
United Confederate Veterans
Vicksburg
Miss
West Virginia
Bryan
Ruth Bryan Leavitt
W. J. Bryan
Margaret Howell Hayes
Jefferson Davis
Colorado
Newport
R. I
Benjamin G Stevenson
United States Marine Corps
Baneer
Rutland Railroad
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Albany
Clinton
Hearst
Galera Signal Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Thomas A. McIntyre
Board of Water Supply
Wallkill
S. Pearson & Son
Expor Shipping Company
F. G. Bailey
Goldsboro
American Bar Association
Whitmore
Brooklyn
WOOING THE SOUTH IN DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FRENZY
A political column analyzes Southern influence in the Democratic National Convention era. It contrasts Southern passivity with calls to back Bryan or other Northern candidates, noting shifts from conservatism to radicalism, and cites Alabama Florida results and regional loyalties amid Bryan's rising momentum.
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Mr. Bryan
Cleveland
Bryan
Judge Palker
Judge Parker
Alleghanies
Pacific Coast
Minnesota
Jolson
Hill
New York
Johnson
Minneella
Mr. Cleveland
Alabama
Florida
Virginia
Louisiana
Georgia
North
Gerolina
Southern leadership questioned in political op ed
The Times critiques the South for political sloth while noting capable Democrats exist. It argues Southern leaders today differ in education and temperament but reflect the same regional dynamic, following the Northern wing of the party and resisting initiative since 1860.
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Times
South
Old South
Bryan
Clinton honored like a founder in early New York history
The ceremonies for George Clinton proceed from the city to Kingston, honoring a leading early American figure. Clinton, a lawyer, soldier, governor, and vice president, shaped state canals and education policy, uniting party lines with broad, forward looking views.
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Kingston
New York
United States
Clinton
America
Great Britain
George Clinton
Tie
City to probe Blackwell Island Bridge design and safety
The Tribune praises the city for commissioning an impartial investigation into the Blackwell Island Bridge. Independent evaluators will review actual stresses, test compression members, and assess design changes. The inquiry may reveal whether cheaper materials and two‑part construction affected safety or contractor profits.
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Blackwell's Island Bridge
Tribune
Quebec Bridge
Lindenthal
The
Quebec
Messrs. Boller and Hodge
Independent inquiry urged after Quebec disaster prompts safety review
The text argues for a thorough independent investigation into bridge safety, saying official pride must not block testing. It notes the seriousness of the facts learned since the Blackwell's Island work and the need to reassess standards in light of the Quebec disaster.
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Quebec
Blackwell's Island
Turreted ships stand test of time in naval evolution
The Hampton Roads trials reaffirm armor over offensive power, echoing 1862. Turret mounting expands to full main batteries on new battleships, with eight 12 inch guns on major ships and larger batteries for the Delaware and North Dakota. Observations on mastless gunnery towers and anti torpedo nets signal further defense advances amid modern torpedo risk.
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Hampton Roads
Ericsson
England
Hibernia
Michigan
South Carolina
America
Connecticut
Delaware
North Dakota
Florida
Togo
Port Arthur
Cleaning up a Nasty Wabit at the Zoo
The director of the Zoological Park urges firm action to end street littering by zoo visitors. The piece argues Americans must educate the public to curb tossing newspapers, wrappers, and fruit peels, blames city workers' leniency, and warns that Europe is not America in matters of cleanliness.
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Zoological Park
Tribune
Tottenville
Wakefield
Board of Health
Hornaday
New York City
Constantinople
Traction Company
Park Department
Europe
America
Hornday’s city cleaning plan boosts New York’s streets
Europe’s streets and Naples alleys are cleaner, showing that U S decline is from official sloth. If New York City adopts Hornday’s example, pay-as-you-enter cars story will be retold and the city could become as clean as a whistle.
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Europe
Naples
New York
New York City
Mr. Hornaday
Bank of England announces discount rate cut to 2 percent
The Bank of England reduces its discount rate to 2 percent but says this does not signal an imminent emergency in the money market.
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Bank of England
Bailey Proves Valorous in Senate Fight for Bryan Delegation
The Honorable Joseph W. Bailey earned a firm victory for Bryan’s Denver delegation hope. After a strenuous home campaign, the Texas Senator avoids another grueling national convention contest as Bryan’s advocate on the floor.
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Joseph W. Bailey
Denver
Bryan
Texas
Exchanges of German paintings and American lobsters unfold
The piece notes a possible historic exchange of German paintings for American lobsters, likening it to an notable German American professor exchange. It also mentions the Lusitania’s favorable voyage, subway loop proposals in Brooklyn, Bryan's bank talks, Thomas F. Ryan's possible Denver convention bid, and New York’s potential political maneuvers involving Lemuel E. Quigg.
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New York City
Berlin
Thomas F. Ryan
Virginia
Denver
New York
Lemuel E. Quigg
Booth the Grand Old Man of Salvation Army at Eighty
General Booth, famed as the Salvation Army’s Grand Old Man, marks his eightieth year. A doctor once warned him against ministry as fatal, yet he remains energetic. He draws no army salary, living on interest from £5,000 left by a friend. upon his death the capital returns to that friend or heirs.
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General Booth
Salvation Army
America
Jock
Fought Under Six Flags General Turr Dies in Budapest
Obituary notes General Stephen Turr a famed revolutionary soldier with service across Austria Hungary Garibaldi and Omar Pacha. He faced a death sentence in 1855 while buying horses at Budapest but Britain and Trench governments protested, leading to banishment and his later settling in Paris.
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Budapest
Stephen Turr
Garibaldi
Omar Pacha
Russia
British Transport Service
Trench
Paris
Joys of the Internet? New York tales from the East Side
New York correspondence notes home remedies for cutting wounds amid East Side lore. Readers are urged to clean wounds scientifically and avoid folk poultices. The piece satirically contrasts hair from the biting dog and tobacco chews with filth in improvised dressings.
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New York
Pittsburg Dispatch
East Side
President Meets Campaign Managers amid May White House Visit
Washington May 28 The President conferred with Arthur I. Vorys and Frank H. Hitchcock Taft campaign managers on the political outlook. He signed a coal protection bill for Alaskan supply and welcomed Mint Director Leach to show new 219 and $20 gold pieces bearing In God We Trust.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Arthur I. Vorys
Frank H. Hitchcock
Taft
Vorys
Leach
Mint
White House
Root
Cortelyou
Hopkins
Guggenheim
Bourne
Brown
Curtis
Howell
Foss
Dalzell
Weeks
Goldfogle
Driscoll
Olcott
Dwight
Hobson
Carey
Cale
Alaska
Cooley
Charles A. Moore
New York
Robert Winser
Boston Steamship Company
War Department
Panama Canal Commission
Taft Party Guests In Annapolis Amid Cards
Mrs William H Taft travels to Annapolis to attend a large card party at Carvel Hall hosted by Mrs Fitzsimmons wife of Dr Fitzsimmons U S N Miss Taft is already in Annapolis Mrs James R Garfield departs for Chicago to visit her mother Mrs Newell before the Republican National Convention Secretary Garfield will join her for the convention and they will return to their summer home at Mentor Ohio
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
William H. Taft
Annapolis
Fitzsimmons
Carvel Hall
Taft
James R. Garfield
Chicago
Newell
Garfield
Mentor
Ohio
Diplomatic Corps Dinner Hosts Noted Foreign Officials
The French Ambassador and Mme Jusserand hosted dinner at the embassy with Root, colom bia minister, and other officials. The Brazilian Ambassador and Mme Nabuco will spend the summer at a cottage in Hamilton Mass. The Siamese chargé d affaires and legation staff depart Washington for Bass Rocks Me to establish summer legation.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Mme. Jusserand
Root
Colombia
Sefiora de Cortes
Robert Bacon
Venezuela
W. W. Russell
Countess de Buisseret
the Treasury
Beekman Winthrop
Nicholas Fish
Mile. du Cleux
M. Bardac
Charles S. Bromwell
Viscount de Cha
New York
Miss Sloan
Europe
Phra Ratanagapti
Legation
Bass Rocks
Washington Society Night Dinner Hosts Honor Prominent Guests
Miss Juliette Williams and fiancé Joseph Leiter were the guests of honor at a Chevy Chase Club dinner hosted by Captain and Mrs. Sumerlin. Mrs. Julius Burrows leaves for Briarcliff Manor to visit her son-in-law and daughter for two weeks. Representative Hobson and wife depart for Newport for the summer. Mrs. Joseph McKenna plans a New York trip to visit relatives. Justice McKenna will also go to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Ten Eyck Wendell have left for Cazenovia New York.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Juliette Williams
Joseph Leiter
Chevy Chase Club
Sumerlin
Julius ©. Burrows
Briarcliff Manor
Hudson
George McNair
Richmond P. Hobson
Newport
Joseph McKenna
New York
Pitt Duffield
John Pultz
Justice McKenna
Ten Eyck Wendell
Cazenovia
N. Y
Formal banquet seals Anglo French entente in London
In London on May 28 M Cambon hosted a formal French Embassy banquet for President Fallières and King Edward with nearly a hundred guests including the Prince of Wales and the American Ambassador. M Picton praised the reception as proof that entente cordiale has become a core policy binding Britain and France.
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London
M. Cambon
Falliéres
Edward
Prince of Wales
Whitelaw Reid
M. Picton
Failires
Fragnce
Great Britain
Carnegie Hero Fund grants pension for East River heroine
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded a medal and a five dollar monthly pension to the family of a government employee who died saving two boys from drowning in the East River. The widow and six children will receive further aid as the eldest son earns wages.
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Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
East River
Charity Organization Society
Woman Awarded $500 for Stopping Bank Heist
Eva Javernicka received a $500 reward from Jefferson Bank directors at 103 Canal Street for aiding in repelling three young Hebrews who attempted to steal $43,000 from bank messengers in broad daylight. She rushed to help when the attackers overpowered the messengers, and she plans to return to Austro Galicia after a short stay in the United States.
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Eva Javernicka
Jefferson Bank
No. 103
Canal Street
Jovernicka
Yawernicke
Sarnock
Austro-Galicia
Irish Bard Honored in Brooklyn on Moore Day
The St Patrick's Society of Brooklyn held Thomas Moore day at Prospect Park with Luke D Stapleton, president and Supreme Court justice, placing a wreath on Moore's bust in the Flower Garden. Father Edward F Brophy delivered an address after a brief ceremony and music.
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Thomas Moore
St. Patrick's Society of
Brooklyn
Prospect Park
Luke D. Stapleton
The
Supreme Court
Moore
Edward F. Brophy
Church of Our Lady of Victory
W Beverley Rogers to Wed Grace Chapin at Grace Church
The wedding will feature fourteen ushers including Philip W. Livermore De Lan cey Kane Jay Stuyvesant Fish Jr and Ogden L Mills Kenneth Budd will be best man Miss Chapin will have Mrs J Gordon Douglas as matron of honor The ceremony occurs next Monday with a reception at the Chapin home in East 56th Street Also notices list several society families leaving town for Newport Morristown Bar Harbor and other retreats for the season.
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W. Beverley Rogers
Grace Chapin
Alfred Chapin
Grace Church
Philip W. Livermore
de Lancey Kane Jay
Austen Gray
Stuyvesant Fish
Alert Zabriskie Gray
Ogden L. Mills
Hamilton Fish Benjamin
Charles de Loosey Odrichs
Lytle Hull
Harris Livermore
Lawrence Breese
William Rhinelander Stewart
Alexander Kee
Herbert L. Riker
Kenneth Budd
Newport Social Notes Arrivals Signal Summer Season
Telegraphed Newport social column lists expected seasonal guests and new arrivals. Among names are Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Mrs. William R. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Clyde, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Beaulieu, Edgerston, and Harrison Avenue are noted as summer haunts.
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Tribune
Newport
R. I
Whitney Warren
Hugh D. Auchincloss
William R. Rogers
B. F. Clyde
Bryn Mawr
Penn
de Rham
Major J. €. Mallory
Newport Casino
T. Shaw
Pomfret
Fordham Mahony
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Beaulieu
Arthur B. Emmons
Stuyvesant Leroy
Oliver Payne
New York
Edgerston
Ambassador Henry White
Harrison Avenue
London actuary views on insurance law and regulation
A letter to the editor discusses London actuary George King’s opinions on life insurance regulation. He argues for minimal government interference, full company information to the public, and argues against crude first year expense baselines. The piece cites Armstrong committee and urges liberal, transparent policy.
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the Tribune
Hughes
George King
London
United States
King
New York
Armstrong
G& New York
Protest Against Park Parties Described in New York Letter
A 1908 letter from C. W. Cuming of New York praises a protest against disorder in public parks. The writer urges banning May day parties that leave litter and damage shrubs and flowers, hoping the Parks Commissioner takes decisive action.
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the Tribune
Hornaday
C. W. Cuming
New York
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Lusitania
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Sudge
Jimmie
Sally Ryan
Lake Maggiore
London Express
Small Grace
Mamma
Lippincott’s
SIX Flags
Interne
Lakes Lawn
the Diplomatic Corps
IN Washington Society
Pichon
Entente
Carnegie
NEW York Society
Philip M. Lydig
Town
Charles B. Alexander
Tuxedo
Oliver Gould Jennings
Fairfield
Conn
Luther Kountze
East Sfth Street
Morristown
N. J
Lawrence B. Elliman
Highwood, N. J
Charles D. Dickey
Long Isle
Gibson Fahnestock
Gotham
Newsport
C. D. Kingdon
Canada
Jnin
George J. Gould
Frederic B. Jennings
North Bennington, Vt
William Sheldon
Briarecliff
Henry Sampson
West Gath Street
Bar Harbor
Curtenius Gillette
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London Actuary
Mr. King
United Kingdom
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