Versailles's Peril in 1908 Fire Safety Overhaul
A 1908 article reports urgent steps to protect the Palace of Versailles from fire after near misses at Versailles and nearby cottages. It details lack of telephonic links to Paris, antiquated fire apparatus, and 80 hot air furnaces beneath wooden floors, prompting a move to steam heating, chemical extinguishers, and direct fire department lines.
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Brentwood Company
Palace of
Versailles
Roigolell
Paris
Trianon
Versailles Palace
Park of
Garret
Esus
Senate
Eputies
King Edward and Billiards Return to Royal Hobby
Dispatches report King Edward VII rekindling interest in billiards at Sandringham after a lengthy hiatus tied to memories of Duke of Clarence and past royal players. The king, his children, and Princesses are noted for skillful play in the famed billiard room amid hunting trophies and Canadian keepsakes.
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Lanera VII
England
John Roberts
Edward VII
United Kingdom
Charles Hall
Ruer
London
Bingham
Prince of Wales
Queen of
Norway
Queen Alexandra
Marker
Sandringham
Casey
Cne
Dominion
Duke of Clarence
Jules Clarette Retakes Post At Comedie Francaise
Paris reports Jules Clarette who resigned October 17 as director of the Comedie Francaise to join the Figaro as dramatic critic has withdrawn his resignation. No reason given for the reversal.
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Jules Claretie
Paris
Jules Clarette
Comédie Francaise
Figaro
Theatre Planned for Tenderloin on 41st Street Site
Plans for a new theatre on a 75 foot frontage plot on the south side of 41st Street, 125 feet west of Sixth Avenue, have been perfected. The structure will seat 0 people. Demolition of existing buildings on the Gerry estate land is to begin next week.
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41St Street
Sixth Avenue
Gerry
Comfort meetings offered by Immanuel Baptist Church
In Chicago on October 20, Immanuel Baptist Church led by Rev. Dr. Johnson Myers began daily "comfort meetings" to relieve all kinds of human woe. About 50 to 60 attendees seek help. a chef of trained assistants including a physician and a lawyer assist privately in side rooms. Free breakfasts are served. clients may pay or have church cover costs.
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Chicago
Immanuel Baptist Church
Johnson Myers
Church
Dr Bull Comfortably Day Amid Health Bulletin
A medical bulletin announced Dr William J Bull had a comfortable day at 11 pm with lower temperature. His condition otherwise remained the same. The update was signed by Dr Joseph A Blake.
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Bull
William J. Bull
Joseph A. Blake
Clergy honor Bishop Potter funeral in simple rite
In Grace Church the burial of Henry Codman Potter, seventh Bishop of New York, was held with a simple committal in the crypt of St John's Cathedral. The service featured Chopin and Barnby music, a large clergy turnout, and a public viewing of the crypt attended by thousands before sealing a memorial slab for Potter.
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Grace Church
Chopin
Barnby
Bermuda
Henry Codman Potter
New York
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Russell
Greer
Doane
Albany
Hare
South Dakota
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Rhode Island
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Pittsburg
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Pennsylvania
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Nova Scotia
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Long Island
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Idaho
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Newark
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Florida
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Morningside Avenue
Synod Hall
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Jacob H. Schiff
William Salmon
Charles Sprague Smith
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
Everett P. Wheeler
Nicholas Murray Butler
John Drew
Edwin 8. Gorman
McClellan
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Br. Thomas Darlington
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Wedding in Paris Unites Lagrange Daughter with Belgian Count
Paris on October 20 reports the wedding of Miss Lagrange daughter of Baron and Baroness Lagrange and granddaughter of former Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll to Count Boissiére Thiennes of Belgium.
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Miss Lagrange
Baron
Baroness Lagrange
John Lee Carroll
Maryland
Count Boissiére Thiennes
Belgium
Ingraham Daughter Weds Lt Dutreuil in Paris Ceremony
Miss Natalie Ingraham daughter of Justice George L. Ingraham of the New York Appellate Division married Lieutenant Bernard Dutreuil in Paris at the Church of Saint Philippe du Roule on October 20.
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George L. Ingraham
Appellate Division
Supreme Court of New York
Bernard Dutreuil
Philippe-du-Roule
Death of Charles Eliot Norton noted scholar and Harvard professor
Cambridge Mass Oct 21 Charles Eliot Norton philanthropist scholar and longtime Harvard history of art professor died at home in Cambridge He edited Ruskins works Dante and others and influenced students through two leading art history courses He helped shape Harvard architecture policy and founded the Dante Club and Archeological Institute of America His death marks the loss of a premier literary executor editor and teacher
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Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard
John Ruskin
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First
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Charles William Eliot
Harvard College
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Francis J. Child
George M. Lane
Young Norton
India
Europe
George William Curtis
Longfellow
Cambridge
Norton
Florence
Legal Publication Society
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James Russell Lowell
North American Review
Spain
Ashfield
Mass
Philippines
Hoar
Shady Hill
Berkshire Hills
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Archeological Institute of America
American School of Classical Studies
Athens
Dante Club of
Ruskin Society of Glasgow
Italy
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Carlyle
Emerson
Goethe
William Dean Howells
Will of Dr Dunlop Probated After Contested Reading
The will of Dr. Clark Dunlop disposing of an estate over 1 000 000 was admitted to probate by Surrogate Beckett. Dunlop died March 6 and had been declared incurably insane shortly before. his wife Eliza C. Dunlop was appointed committee of his person. The widow is chief beneficiary though most nephews and nieces are remembered. the surrogate found the testator sane when the will was drawn and terms not unnatural.
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Land of
Nod
Filip
Flip
Cloudland
Hote Islands
Gabriel
Buster Brown
Joseph Cawthorn
Billy” B. van
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Klaw & Erlanger
Land of St. Valentine
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Dunlop
Beckett
Surrogate Beckett
Tyrannosaurus Rex On Way Here
In Montana a 40 foot long by 22 foot high Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was found in bad lands south of Glasgow by Barnum Brown of New York's American Museum of Natural History. The fossil, weighing thousands of pounds for the skull, was shipped to New York after sixteen teams hauled it to the railroad.
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United States
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Kronprinzess
Cecilie
New York
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House of
Ysemburg
Germany
Prince Leopold
Cer Megnate Pullman
Olga
Saxe-Weimar
Darmstadt
Prince Charles
London
Mies Bertha Lewis
New Orleans
Fether
Paris
Doweger
Yeemburg-Birstein
Great Falls
Mont
Glasgow
Barnum Brown
American Museum of Natural History
Sembrich to Sing at Metropolitan Opera House and Tour
Mme. Marcella Sembrich arrives aboard the Kronprinzess in Cecilie with her husband Herr Stengel- Sembrich for a season opening at the Metropolitan Opera House. She will perform in La Traviata or La Bohème during the first week and then tour mainly in February to St Petersburg Moscow Warsaw Vienna and Berlin with concerts in Chicago Detroit and Ann Arbor.
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Marcella Sembrich
Metropolitan Opera House
Kronprinzess
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Divorce Granted to Richard V. Mattison Jr in Supreme Court
Richard V. Mattison Jr., son of the Philadelphia asbestos magnate, was granted a divorce from Agnes C. Mattison by Justice Erlanger in the Supreme Court. Her counter suit for a limited divorce was denied.
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Richard V. Mattison, Jr
Philadelphia
Agnes C. Mattison
Justice Erlanger
Supreme Court
Free cultural events and lectures listed for today in New York venues
Today across Manhattan and the Bronx free admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History. A packed schedule includes lectures at Public Schools 165 186 24 and 37, hotel events at the Hotel Astor, and public sessions by the United Hebrew Charities and the American Gas Institute.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Zoological Gardens
Clvic
Hotel Astor
American Gas Institute
United Hebrew Charities of
City of New York
21St Street
Second Avenue
Board of Education
108Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
West
Claude F. Walker
Kappock Street
Spuyten Duyvil
Edinburgh
Charles H. Scoley
145Th Street
Willis Avenue
Charles L. Harrington
Weather Report Forecast from Official Record
The storm over Nebraska moved north of North Dakota bringing scattered rains from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains. Temperatures fell in the Atlantic states while rising in the Southwest and upper Mississippi Valley. A well defined storm will reach the southern Rockies Wednesday with rain in central valleys Thursday and the Atlantic states Friday or Saturday. Local winds vary by coast with fresh seas and fair weather in many areas.
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South Atlantic
West Gulf Coast
Guion and McAllister Tie The Knot At Trinity Chapel
Amelia Hamilton McAllister daughter of the late Dr Francis Marion McAllister rector of Trinity Church Elizabeth N J weds George Guion at Trinity Chapel on Tuesday October 20 1908 Rev John R Atkinson and the Vicar William H Wibbert officiate indorsements require full name and address for notices of marriages and deaths
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Trinity Chapel
Amelia Hamilton McAllister
Francis Marion McAllister
Trinity Church
Elizabeth
N. J
John R. Atkinson
William H. Wibbert
George Guion
Knoepfel
Carolina Fay Cott
William H. Knoepfel
Alan D. Kenyoge
Westth St
Death notices compiled for The Tribune obituaries
Death notices appear for Mary Elisabet Barr and many others with funeral details from October 1908 including Brooklyn locations 133 Schermerhorn, 273 Clinton, and 302 Beverley Road. Entries list ages and funeral dates, with services at Calvary Church Summit and St Peters Hicks Warren streets, among others.
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Bonning—Oulifte Benning
William
Beverley Road
Brooklyn
Woodlawn Cemetery hits easy access from Harlem trains
The Woodlawn Cemetery is readily accessible by Harlem trains from Grand Central Station and by Webster and Jerome avenue trolleys or carriage. Lots start at 150 dollars. For views or a representative, telephone Gramercy. Office located at 20 East 22d Street, New York City.
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Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster and
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
East 22d St
New York City
Frank E Campbell and Merritt Funeral Directors Linked in City
Frank E Campbell located at 2413 West 23d Street and 1324 Chelsea, and Rev Stephen Merritt, a world renowned undertaker, run a private and public ambiance business with a single Chelsea area office.
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Frank E. Campbell
West
St. Chapela
Chelsea
Stephen Merritt
St. Ave
New York Tribune Offers Aspirant Application Gallery
Special notices announce a newly installed gallery of applications for various positions at the Uptown Office of THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE Located at No 1564 Broadway between 326th and 37th Streets.
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Tribune Subscription Rates Extended Worldwide
The Tribune offers mail delivery to domestic and international addresses with flexible term options. Rates vary by daily weekly and weekend editions, with special overseas postages, plus multiple offices in New York and a network of foreign correspondents and agents in Brussels London Paris Geneva Florence Hamburg and more.
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Washington
F Street
Newark
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Religious Notices Speak On Civic Mission Tonight
Dr Walter Laidlaw of the Federation Churches will discuss The Civic Mission of Pr Church at the Madison Square ab due Church Madison Ave and 24th St tonight at 7.30. 20 cents line.
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Walter Laidlaw
Federation Churches
Madison Square Ab Due Churea
Madison Ave
24Th St
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