Miss Duncan Returns to Dance in Met Opera House
Miss Isadora Duncan and Walter Damrosch with the Symphony Orchestra staged a bold interpretation of Beethoven and Greek classicism at the Metropolitan Opera House. Critics noted the intimate link between dancer and music was challenged by the hall’s size and urged restraint to preserve the music’s dignity.
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Isadora Duncan
Europe
Metropolitan Opera House
Neo Iover
Beethoven
Miss Duncan
Iece
Germany
Mise Ibuncan
Charles Kingsley
Ludwig Bischoff
Wagner
H.e.kersy
Walter Damrosch
Symphony
Gluck
State D A R Elects Officers in Rochester Conference
Rochester November 6 The state conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution votes to form a separate state organization and elects officers including vice regent Munson of Albany and registrar Mrs. George A Wallace of Buffalo. Mrs. William Cumming Story is nominated regent for the Washington continental congress.
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Rochester
Committee On State
State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution
William Cumming Story
Washington
Munson
Albany
F. ¥. Yanger
New York
Charlies E. Taft
George A. Wallace
Buffalo
Grace M. Pierce
Canisteo
Gabriel Stewart Mulliner
William Eastwood
J. Heron Crossman
H. F. Roberts
Utica
John Miller Horton
C. A. J. Alexander
Johnstown
Ernest Wycoff
Elmira
Allaway
Goshen
London Money Market in Crisis lecture at Columbia University
Francis W. Hirst editor of The London Economist spoke at Havemeyer Hall on London money market during the 1907 crisis. He traced Bank of England actions and Bagehot’s advice to flood markets with liquidity amid panics and described cross border gold flows and the impact on English capital and American politics.
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Francis W. Hirst
The
London Economist
London
Havemeyer Hals
Columbia University
Hirst
Bank of England
Walter Bagehot
Bagehot
Bank of France
Europe
Scandinavia
Holland
Austria
Will of Wilson Miller Filed in Pittsburg
The will of Wilson Miller former president of the Pittsburg Locomotive Works was filed in Pittsburg today. The estate value is reported at 1000000 with almost all of it divided equally among his three daughters Anna Scull Margaret Benham and Robert Booke and 30000 left to each of three grandchildren Margaret Benham Barbara Booke and Wilson Miller Booke.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Wilson Miller
Margaret Benham
Barbara Booke
Wilson Miller Booke
New Harlem Library Opens with Carnegie Fund Support
The New Harlem branch of the New York Public Library at 2 West 115th Street, the twenty seventh Carnegie funded library, opened yesterday with book distribution starting today. Alderman Reginald S. Doull accepted the building from George L. Rives of the library board. The Morrisania branch on East 168th Street, The Bronx, is set to open December 1 as the next Carnegie library.
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New York Public Library
West 115Th Street
Carnegie Fund
Reginald S. Doull
George L. Rives
Morrisania
East 168Th Street
Bronx
Ee Lake
Moderation Society
Mulberry Bend Arcade
Arthur Hollick
Botanical Garden
The
North Carolina Society
Hotel Astor
Board of Education
Henry and Catharine Streets
Oscar P. Austin
18Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Hakespeare
Thomas G Taaffe
116Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Samuel Schmucker
Museum of History
77Th Street
Central Park West
Charles Baskerville
Cooper Union
Third Avenue
Sth Street
Louis A. Lotseau
Bronx Church House
171St Street
Fulton Avenue
the Voice
Purden Robinson
Public Library
174Th Street
Washington Avenue
James Walter Crook
Hammond Hosts Dinner for League Organizers at Astor
John Hays Hammond, president of the National League of Republican Clubs, held a dinner at the Hotel Astor for league organizers. Thomas Snell and Ww. E B. Brewster spoke along with Hammond. Guests included A M. Rose, Q. Payne, C. W. Rice, a We Stevens, Co. A. Narvale, F. B. Wilson, J. F. Turner, M. Roder, H. Biggs, and C. W. Kohlsaat.
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John Hays Hammond
National League of Republican Clubs
Hotel Astor
Thomas Snell
Ww. E B. Brewster
Mr. Hammond
A M. Rose
Q. Payne
C. W. Rice
A We Stevens
Co. A. Narvale
F. B. Wilson
J. F. Turner
M. Roder
H. ©. Biggs
C. W. Kohlsaat
Free Lectures and Tours Across City Institutions Today
A wide array of free and public programs unfolds today. Museums host talks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art American Museum of Natural History and Zoological Gardens while the League for Political Education sponsors After Election at Hudson Theatre.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Jacob A. Bilson
League For Political Education
Hudson Theatre
Century Theatre Club
Hotel Astor
Weather Record and Forecast from Washington
Official Weather Bureau record notes kite flights at Mount Weather show westerly winds at 4000 feet and light southwest surface winds. Scattered showers or snow flurries reported in Pennsylvania New York and New England with general fall elsewhere. Forecast calls for fair weather and rising temperatures east of the Mississippi while cooler conditions expected in the upper Mississippi Valley and upper Great Lakes.
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Washington
Mount Weather
Pennsylvania
New York
New England
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic
Missouri Valley
Upper
Mississippi
Gifts to the Museum Highlight Sage and Nuttall Donations
The Metropolitan Museum of Art received a Thomas Cole painting The Oxbow from Mrs. Russell Sage on Thursday. Mrs Magdalena Nuttall of Tunbridge Wells tabulated a lace collection of 32 countries, including a Venetian needlepoint chalice veil and a diverse array of pieces from Italy France England and Ireland. Mrs Nuttall, a New York native and Mexican widow of Robert Kennedy Nuttall, is noted in relation to the gift.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Russell Sage
Thomas Cole
Housatonic Valley
Berkshires
Magdalena Nuttall
Tunbridge Wells
England
Orient
Norway
Madagascar
Mexico
Yucatan
Brazil
Paraguay
Pardon Clarke
Museum Receives Gifts From Trustees and Donors
Under the will of Mrs. Martha T. Fiske Collord the museum trustees receive fifteen paintings now on view in the Room of Recent Accessions plus a painting from Mrs. Sage. The gifts honor Josiah M. Fiske and include four American pictures by Hunt and Boughton and a Daubigny landscape. A Rodin marble group La Main de Dieu, gifted by Edward D. Adams, depicts a giant hand holding Adam and Eve.
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Daubigny
Rodin
Edward D. Adams
Adam and Eve
Beilinger Accepts Vicarage at St Agnes Chapel
The Rev. Dr. W W Beilinger, formerly of St Marys Brooklyn and nine years at Grace Church Utica N Y, accepts the vicarage of St Agnes Chapel Trinity Church at 92d Street near Columbus Ave with a salary of 8000 dollars per year He will begin the first week of December The chapel is Trinity s largest and has been vacant since Dr Manning moved up.
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W.W. Beilinger
St Mary's Church
Brooklyn
Grace Episcopal Church
Utica
N. Y
St. Agnes's Chapel
Trinity Church
Beilinger
Grace Church
New York
William T. Manning
Old Trinity
St. Agnes’s
92D Street
Columbus Avenue
Trinity
Bellinger
Manning
Morgan Dix
Funeral for Cuba's Tomas Estrada Palma Draws Masses
Santiago de Cuba on November 6 saw widespread disruption as residents attended the funeral of Tomas Estrada Palma former Cuban president. Twenty six groups including U S troops rural guardsmen fire department bands and clubs formed the procession with officials headed by George Alfred Belt and other provincial leaders in the guard of honor.
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Santiago de Cuba
Tomas Estrada Palma
Cuba
United States
George Alfred Belt
Magoon
Oriente
Santiago
Guard of Honor
Queensboro Bridge Blunder Exposed by City Experts
The Brooklyn Standard Union reports that city experts found the Queensboro Bridge too weak for planned elevated tracks and traffic. The piece questions accountability, notes a 5 percent load reduction, and credits The Tribune for prompting the investigation into the structural fault.
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Brooklyn Standard Union
Quensbooro
Interborough
Stevenson
MacCillan
Alegst
Queens
the Tribune
Letter to the Editor urges universal 2 cent per ounce postage
Charles Nevers Holmes of Boston argues that a 2 cent per ounce international letter rate should spread to France Germany Italy and the United States. He notes distances from New York and Columbus to Paris Berlin and Rome and cites German Italian and French-born populations in the U S. He says travelers abroad increase and argues equal postage to write from Rome Berlin and Paris as from within the U S.
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the Tribune
England
Scotland
Ireland
United States
France
Germany
Italy
New York City
Paris
Berlin
Rome
Columbus
Ind
Manila
Philippines
Our
Republic
Charles Nevers Holmes
Boston
Okuma and Townsend Harris in early 1908 tribute letter
William Elliot Griffis writes from Ithaca New York on November 4 1908 praising Count Okuma the Japanese educator and statesman. He credits Okumas reminiscences reported by Noguchi and lauds Townsend Harris as founder of broad US Japan friendship alongside General Grant.
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the Tribune
Japan
Pacific
Count Okuma
Waseda University
Imperial University
Progressive and Liberal Party
United States
Guido F. Verbeck
Okuma
Noguchi
Yokohama
New York City
College of the City of
Townsend Harris Hall
Verbeck
General Grant
Townsend Harris
William Elliot Griffis
Ithaca, N. Y
Bells Tolling Proposal For City Ceremony
Stephen M Griswold asks the city to toll its bells from 3 to 4 pm on Saturday November 14 for the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument ceremonies, urging local observers to mark the hour.
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the Tribune
Stephen M. Griswold
Baldwin's Polar Drift Plan Outlines Nova Expedition
Evelyn Baldwin proposes a polar drift using logs and oil casks as reserves, to drift from latitude 73 north along longitude 168 west toward across the polar ice pack. Balloons and aerial observation will aid the journey, aiming to preserve collections and extend two thousand miles of exploration beyond prior voyages by De Long and Nansen.
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the Tribune
de Long
Nansen
Wrangel Land
Greenland
Bering Strait
Evelyn B. Baldwin
New York
Julia O'Brien, 102, Dies in St Francis Home
Julia O'Brien aged 102 died yesterday in St Francis's Home on 6th Street after arriving from Ireland seventy five years ago with her husband and three children. Her cheerful spirit brightened the Home and she will be missed by residents and staff.
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Julia O'Brien
Ireland
St. Francis’s
6Th Street
Mrs Julia O Brien Dies After Long Irish Life in New York
Mrs Julia O Brien aged WW died yesterday after a life rooted in an Irish neighborhood along Hester Street New York City She sailed from County Tipperary with her husband and three children later rising to seven The family faced war losses while two sons died at the front Her caregiver J Rottkamp a Hester Street butcher housed her Later moved to the country then the Home She enjoyed a pipe learning to smoke on the sea voyage and was happiest with daily allotments The last words she whispered to the doctor were God bless them the babies
Isaac Pardee Williams Dies at Bloomfield Home
Isaac Pardee Williams a charter member of the Maritime Exchange died Wednesday at his daughter’s home in Bloomfield New Jersey. Born in 1813 in Essex Connecticut he was educated in France and later worked in New York before entering ship brokerage. A member of the First Baptist Church Bloomfield he long composed the church anniversary hymn and leaves only his daughter as heir.
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Isaac Pardee Williams
Maritime Exchange
Bloomfeld
N. J
Essex
Conn
Mr. Williams
France
New York
Frank Semple Dies in Pittsburg From Pneumonia
Frank Semple sixty seven years old who managed the William Thaw estate since Thaw's death died here early today from pneumonia. Semple held large interests in Pittsburg’s strongest financial institutions and was a member of several civic organizations. He also had interests in various commercial enterprises across the state.
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Pittsburg
Frohman Plans New Plays Upon Return From Europe
Charles Frohman will present The Dollar Princess The Marriage of a Star and The Happy Marriage upon his return next month. Henri Bernstein states his works aim to entertain and stimulate audiences. The Sicilian Players set Broadway Theatre engagement starting in November with Malia. Henry B Harris will soon produce Leopold Kampf drama On the Ere.
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Europe
Charles Frohman
Clyde Fitch
Henri Bernstein
Samson
New York
Broadway
Malia
Henry B. Harris
Leopold Kampf
Concert for Polcoms by Mexico City Band
Police Commissioner Bingham orders the Mexico City police band to perform at an uptown theatre tomorrow night. Each city platoon will be represented by one uniformed officer, with draws at station houses to select the attendees. Each patrolman may bring a guest, except for small children.
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Bingham
Mexico City
Prominent Arrivals at Hotels Belmont
Prominent arrivals list includes George von L Meyer Postmaster General and family in Washington. Jud Wn. & Fielding in Ottawa. Captain P Tiffany Jr at Breslin. Mrs E G Dease DAR president general at Empire. Hon Lady Auckland and Dr J J Mason in Gotham. Captain Thomas B Doe US Navy at Murray Hill. Captain G Lumsden at Plaza. Brigadier General J P Farley and LT J E Willard at Seville and Richmond. Rear Admiral John Schouter USN retired at Walcott Annapolis.
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Belmont
George von L. Meyer
Washington
Jud Wn. & Fielding
Ottawa
Breslin
P. Tiffany, Jr
A. Empire
E. G. Dease
The
National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
Gotham
Auckland
London
J. J. Mason
Newport
Murray Hill
Thomas B. Doe
SS. A. Plaza
G. Lumsden
England
Seville
J. P. Farley
S A
Regis
J E. Willard
Richmond
Walcott
John Schouter
Annapolis
Dr J J Stevenson resigns from New York University geology chair
The New York University senate at Washington Square announced the resignation of Professor John J Stevenson senior geology professor after 37 years in the chair. He graduates from NYU class of 1863 and holds PhD from NYU and LL D from Princeton and Washington Jefferson. He was president of the Geological Society of America in 1890.
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Senate of
New York University
Washington Square
John J. Stevenson
University
K. Stevenson
Stevenson
Princeton
Washington and Jefferson
Geological Society of America
President Eliot's Resignation Saluted Across Papers
The Philadelphia Ledger notes his long tenure at Harvard and his enduring monument in the university's life. The New York Sun lauds a record of unprecedentedly long service and a firm signature. The Boston papers praise his leadership, impact on education, and thoughtful retirement.
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Philadelphia Ledger
John Harvard
Eliot
Sir Christopher Wren
St Paul's
The
New York Sun
Harvard
Transatlantic Passenger List For Various European Journeys
A ship passenger list shows travelers sailing to London Southampton and Liverpool aboard vessels including the Mesaba New York Cedric and Duc a di Genova. Names include Ada M Grant Kathleen Wilson Roberta Parsons Abner Hayes Paul Morgan Hume and many others.
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Europe
Mesaba
Ada M. Grant
A. R. Miller
THE
New York
London
H. R Parsons
Norman L. Williams
Southampton
Roberta Parsons
Abner P. Hayes
Chicago Flower Show Opens At Coliseum
Chicago flower lovers gather as the national show opens at the Coliseum for a week. Chrysanthemums dominate displays with the President Taft white variety and a yellow Australian cultivar. Pandanus Pacificus, a three foot screw pine from the Philippines, valued at 175 dollars, draws attention, exhibited by Julius Roehrs of New Jersey.
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Chicago
Coliseum
United States
Julius Roehrs
New Jersey
Mission appropriation set by Methodist church council
St Louis November 4 The general committee of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church votes an appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars to carry on work next year in Africa and China. The sum reflects last year’s collections by Methodist churches in the United States.
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St. Louis
Africa
China
General Committee of Foreign Missions
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
United States
Deaths and Funerals in New Jersey and Nearby Areas
Death notices list multiple individuals with service details across Plainfield Morristown and Brooklyn. Names include Gilmore Jeremiah Loizeaux Celia Lynch Parkhurst Stephenson Thomas Wait Walcott Williams Wyrtzen among others with funeral times, private services, and residence addresses in early November 1908. Public notices note republication policy for tribune death notices.
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Cilmore
Hip
Irving Place
Edwin G Gilmore
Jeremiah
Goshen
Anna E
Georges A Jeremiah
University Place Presbyterian Church
Loizeaun
Plainfeld
SN. J
Celia Sanderson
Paul J. Tatzeaux
Brock Ave
Plainfield
N. J
New York
Liberty St
Central of
Woodlawn Cemetery Ad Opens Listings and Contact
The notice advertises Woodlawn Cemetery with accessible transport and lot pricing from $150. It lists contact details and an office at 20 East 3d Street New York City and provides telephone numbers for Book of Views and services. The fragment mentions Fran ces E. Campbell and ambulances.
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Harlem
Webster
Jerem
Gramercy
East 3d St
New York City
Board of job applications now available at Uptown Tribune
The New York Tribune announces a newly installed file of applications for various positions. Located at No 1364 Broadway between 36th and 17th Streets, the Uptown Office opens daily 9 am to 6 pm for review and consultation.
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NEW York Tribune
Broadway
36Th
17Th Streets
Tribune Subscription Rates and Mailing Details
The Tribune lists domestic and foreign subscription plans with monthly and yearly rates for daily and Sunday editions. It notes pricing variations for weekly farmers, tri weekly, and foreign mail options, plus agency and international office contacts.
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