Clemenceau a Noble and the Old French Nobility
Minister Clemenceau belongs to an old aristocratic line, tracing ancestors from Mareuil in 146 to Seigneur de Pasty and de la Serrie, with titles passing through Pierre Paul Clemen e and Paul Jean. The piece blends royal titles, historic marriages, and mentions Ferdinand of Bulgaria’s visit, plus notes on baronetcies and a folklore curse tied to historic houses.
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Paul Clemenesc
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Pasty Et de la
Est
Aise
Prince
Curse of Cowprey Estate Sold Amid Legendary Curse
Sir Weesman Pearson buys Cowdrey Park in Sussex once held by the Montague and Perceval families. The property is tied to a monkish water curse linked to Cowdrer Priory and New Battle Abbey. The tale details fires, drownings, wealth, and a centuries‑old haunted lineage across England and Ireland.
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Lord Burleigh
John Perceval
Charles
Ireland
George IV
Queen Victoria
Perceval
Earldom of
Egmont
Scotland
South Africa
Lord Leith
Frvte
Derrick A. January
St. Louis
Frvie Castle
United States
Weetman Pearson
Cowdrey
Cowdrey Park
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Weesman Pearson
Ters
Con
East River
New York
Lord Crawford
Aberdeenshire
Dunecht
Lord Egmont
Sussex
Cewdrey
Eerl
Southampton
Shakespeare
Anthony Browne
Lord Montague
Queen Elizabeth
Cowdrey Hall
Lord Salisbury
Hatfield
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Hastings
Battle Abbey
Montaguge
Michael Grace
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William the Conqueror
Montague
Rhine
Schaffhausen
Porriz
Alnwick
Howes
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Earl
Fighring
New York Bowery
Durban
Stephens, Netal
Spencer Arthur Perceval
Henry “Edfrey Perceval
George (. Tanner
Hae
Bec
Nebraska
Waste in repaving on Third Avenue in the Bronx
Albert E. Davis writes from The Bronx on October 21, 198, criticizing city funds wasted in repaving Third Avenue from 138th to 148th streets. He notes granite block pavement in good condition is being replaced at $51,273. The Bronx calls for Charter safeguards and clarifies responsibility lies with the Borough President and Board of Estimate.
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the Tribune
Bronx
Third Avenue
138Th
148Th Street
Metz
Borough of
The
Bureau of Municipal Research
Board of Estimate
Bronix
Westchester Avenue
Bronx River
Webster Avenue
Sedgwick Avenue
Washington Bridge
Charter Revision Commission
Albert E. Davis
Welcome to William Winter A Tribune tribute
Sir welcomes William Winter back as dramatic critic and literary force. The writer lauds his store of historical stage knowledge memory and style and praises his sympathy for worthy art. A Brooklyn reader asks space for a heartfelt tribute to the man many readers admire and expect to hear from after his death.
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the Tribune
William Winter
The
Tribune
Irving
Mr. Winter
Slitah R. Kennedy
Brooklyn
Day’s Free Events At Museums And City Clubs
A busy civic calendar lists free admission to the American Museum of Natural History and the Zoological Gardens, plus meetings at City Club Dar on Broadway, Century Theatre Club at Hotel Astor, and Washington Heights Taxpayers Association. Lectures and school programs fill the afternoon and evening with titles ranging from Empire and Fapacy to The Petroleum Industry and How Naval Officers are Trained, delivered at public schools and clubs across the city by noted scholars and educators.
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Zoological Gardens
City Club
Dar
Broadway
Century Theatre Club
Hotel Astor
William Travers Jerome
Washington Heights Taxpayers’ Association
Corrigan Hall
157Th Street
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Principals’ Club
Hete! Astor
Society of Chemical Industry, Chemists’ Club
West 55Th Street
Board of Education
Wadleigh High School
114Th Street
Seventh Avenue
Newton Gray
Dominick
Clark Streets
Edward H. Hall
East 20Th Street
Berlin
Germany
Henry Zick
Academy Street
Inwood
Australia
Arthur J. Howard
Schoel
148Th Street
Ninth Avenue
Fordham Avenue
City Island
James Russell Lowell
Charles J. Hausenbeck
Anthony and
Tremont Avenues
the Storry
Mary ¥. Worstell
Beaumont Avenue
A. J. Fradenburg
Jerome Avenue
184Th Street
Louis
Berg
Public School
Fastie Hill
Unionport
J. Thornton Sibley
Weather report and forecast for October record
Official record from Washington reports low pressure in the west and heavy rain across Eastern Kansas Missouri and Tex as well as Atlantic states Virginia to Florida. Cooler in the lake region and lower Mississippi Valley with freezing temps in Texas panhandle. Rain expected Friday across Atlantic states Southwest Gulf states and into Ohio Valley with a broad cool front. Northeast winds on steamers to Grand Banks. varied coastal winds. Local forecast: New England fair today and Saturday. Eastern New York Pennsylvania New Jersey fair today showers Saturday. Western NY and PA increasing clouds. Temperature changes shown for last 24 hours with highs 66 lows 47.
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West Gulf States
Kansas
Missouri
Texas
Atlantic States
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Florida
Tennessee
Colorado
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Lake Region
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Panhandle
Wirriata
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Ohio Valley
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West Gulf
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European
Grand Banks
New England
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Estrone
Gulf Coast
Lower Lakes
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Weather Bureau
Irvine
Benjamin Harrison Monument Unveiling Planned in Indianapolis
The Benjamin Harrison monument by Charles H Niehaus will be unveiled Tuesday afternoon Oct 27 in University Park Indianapolis. The bronze statue stands 23 feet high on a rose pink marble base with exedra, cost about 50000 funded by subscriptions from across the United States.
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Benjamin Harrison
Charles H. Niehaus
New York
Indianapolis
Ind
Indianapolis Federal Building
University Park
Harrison
Union of States
Knoxville
Tenn
Bondholders asked to spot for Third Avenue railways
Frederick W. Whitridge the receiver of the Third Avenue Railroad requests bondholders to act as spotters against peculation and inefficiency. He urges bondholders to report any misconduct and to use the system’s railways to test improvements and gather suggestions for better management.
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Frederick W. Whitridge
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Mr. Whitridge
United States Court
Third Avenue Railroad
Street
Manhattanville & St. Nicholas Avenue
Dry Dork
East Broadway & Battery Railroad
Union Railway
No Transfer Agreement Delays Joint Fare Plan Public hearing postponed
The Third Avenue and Central Park North & East River railways failed to agree on a joint fare. Central Park proposed an eight cent fare with five cents kept by the line and three cents to the other company, for three months, a plan rejected by Whitridge. Hearing postponed to next Wednesday. Yonkers mayor’s protest about ten cent rail fare also deferred as negotiations continue.
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Third Avenue Railroad Company
Central Park
North & East River Railroad Company
Public Service Commission
Central Park Company
William N. Dykman
Whitridge
Third Avenue
Willcox
Citizens’ Transit Reform Committee of One Hundred
Warren
Yonkers
Decker and Sague
Upstate Commission
Otis
Brooklyn Appellate ruling sets subway damage at 25 million
Brooklyn Joralemon street property owners win large damages for subway extension. Controller Metz warns the ruling could push total damages to about 25 million, threatening further subway plans in Brooklyn and burdening taxpayers. He notes Fulton street could see four to five times the subway cost in damages if the rule is upheld.
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Joralemon Street
Brooklyn
Appellate Division
Subway
Metz
John Notman
Wilhelmus Mynderse
George B. Abbott
Commissioners of
Court of Appeals
Fulton Street
Obituary of Monsignor Slocum Founder of Immaculate Conception
Waterbury obituary reports the death of Right Reverend Monsignor William J. Slocum permanent rector of the Immaculate Conception Church after a long illness Born in 1851 at Winsted he studied in Alleghany N Y and was ordained in 1871 His career included St Peter Hartford St Patrick New Haven St Josephs Cathedral and St Marys Norwalk He built St Thomas Church Mulcahy Hall Library and St Marys Grammar School and donated 30000 toward St Marys Hospital after long service to the city Catholic church leader promoted to domestic prelate by Pope Pius X and later invested with the title of bishop}
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Tribune
Waterbury
Conn
William J. Slocum
Immaculate Conception
Monsignor
Slocum
Winsted
St. Bonaventure’s College
Alleghany
Pontifical Household
Michael Tierney
St. Thomas’s Church
Mulcahy Memorial Hall
St. Mary's Grammar School
St. Mary’s Hospital
Rear Admiral Arthur Burtis Dies in Buffalo Hotel
Rear Admiral Arthur Burtis of the U S Navy retired, aged about 62, died in his hotel apartment in Buffalo tonight. Born in 141, he joined the navy in 1982 as assistant parmaster and retired in 1993 with the rank of rear admiral.
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Buffalo
Arthur Burtis
Navy
CANNED BEEF PIONEER ROBERT SUTHERLAND DIES
Robert Sutherland a longtime associate of Philip Armour and an early originator of the canned beef industry died yesterday at age sixty eight. He served as superintendent at Armour & Co packing houses in Chicago and Kansas City.
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Kansas City, Mo
Robert Sutherland
Philip Armour
Chicago
Kansas City
Armour & Co
King's Messenger Jephson Dies Amidst Historic Expeditions
Lieutenant Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson, King's messenger since 1871 and prior Queen's messenger, died today. He led a detachment in the Emin Pacha relief mission under Henry M. Stanley, married Anna Head of San Francisco years after initial opposition, and returned from Africa with fever. Head reportedly possessed a fortune near 1 million.
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London
Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson
Jephson
Henry M. Stanley
Anna Head
Addison E. Head
San Francisco
Drew to Return to Shakespeare After Modern Roles
John Drew plans to abandon evening dress drama and return to old fashioned comedies with a Shakespearean and Goldsmith repertoire. Charles Frohman sponsors the move and will assemble a capable company for the Empire engagement ending in December. Maude Adams will take over after.
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John Drew
Mr. Drew
Charles Frohman
Frohman
Shuberts To Stage Fitch Adapted Blue Mouse
The Shuberts plan a new play titled The Blue Mouse adapted by Clyde Fitch from Hugo Holtz. Based on a Berlin production, casting for the company is currently being formed.
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Shuberts
Fitch
The
the Blue Mouse
Clyde Fitch
Hugo Holtz
Berlin
Rev T P McLoughlin to Lecture in New York
The Rev Thomas P McLoughlin pastor of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament New Rochelle will lecture on The Smiles and Tears of Erin at the Lexington Opera House near 58th Street and Third Avenue on October 26. A chorus directed by Professor Charles Clark Dunn will assist. Proceeds go to the Church of the Sacred Heart Port Jervis NY.
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Thomas P. McLoughlin
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
New Rochelle
N. Y
Church of the Transfiguration
Mott Street
Delver
Lexington Opera House
58Th Street
Third Avenue
Charles Clark Dunn
Church of the Sacred Heart
Port Jervis
Ex-Mayor Burdick Dies After Car Accident in Newport
Newport citizen and former mayor J. Truman Burdick, longtime Newport Hospital treasurer and financier, died after a blow to the head from an electric car on Broadway yesterday. He leaves a wife four sons and three daughters.
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Newport
R. 1
J. Truman Burdick
Newport Hospital
Broadway
Convocation Opens With Silent Politics Excluded
Albany dispatch reports the University of the State of New York convocation opening in the Senate Chamber. Vice-chancellor St Clair McKelway urges that elections be kept from deliberations, praising education’s bipartisan spirit and urging focus on learning rather than politics. Speakers include Cornell’s Schurman on adapting university work to general life. sessions run through Saturday with notable addresses by Burnham Nottingham Sparks and Goodwin.
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Albany
Senate
University of the State of New York
St. Clair McKelway
Commonwealth
Education Department
Friends of Education
McKelway
Zr . Schurman
Cornell University
Dr. Schurman
Schurman
William H. Burnham
Clark University
William Nottingham
Syracuse
Edwin E. Sparks
Pennsylvania State College
Frank Wood
Hamilton
Hudson River
Hotel Ten Eyck
Albert Ross Hill
University of Missouri
Homer Folks
State Probation Commission
Edward J. Goodwin
Packer Institute
Brooklyn
Died Despite Prayer In Mount Vernon Family Faith
Coroner Phillip Van Patten of Mount Vernon opened an inquest into the death of Emeline Goodwin a twelve year old who died after eleven days of Christian Science treatment. Witnesses Ellen Robbins and Peter Marquand testified they treated her mentally and spiritually with Bible readings and Science and Health and no medicine. Health officials questioned potential neglect while the parents who are Christian Scientists sought prayer over medical aid.
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Phillip van Patten
Mount Vernon
Philip van Patten
John M. Goodwin
Summit Avenue
Chester Hill
Goodwin
Ellen Robbins
Peter Marquand
Fleming
Strong
van Patten
Marquand
Emeline
Lake Ronkonkoma Sinking Alarms Local Residents
The Long Island lake near Maude Adams’s country home has fallen rapidly, defying its famed tides. Observers fear the drop could continue for years, with the lake already lower than its 1898 ebb.
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Lake Ronkonkoma
Long Island
Maude Adams
Lake Renkonkoma
Divorce For Ethel Jackson Zimmerman Solved
A final divorce decree favored Ethel Jackson Zimmerman known as Ethel Jackson was signed by Justice Dayton in the Supreme Court yesterday. Referee M Linn Bruce found the husband Frederick Zimmerman Jr guilty of indiscretions with an unnamed woman. Mrs Zimmerman played Sonia in the American production of The Merry Widow.
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Ethel Jackson Zimmerman
Ethel Jackson
Justice Dayton
Supreme Court
M. Linn Bruce
Jrederick Zimmerman, Jr
Callaway Kellogg and Gould-Hill Marriages Noted
Marriage notices announce Callaway Kellogg at All Angels Church in October with the Reverend S de Lancey Town and Reverend S Appleton officiating. The Gould-Hill union occurs in North Berwick Maine in October with Susan Frances Hill, daughter of Charles E. Hill of Stamford, Conn., and Theodore Gould of Portland, Me.
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Callaway Kellogg
All Angels’ Church
S. de Lancey
S . Appleton
D. B
Eiste Mcintosh Kellogg
L Lattin Kellogs
Trowboridge Callaway Gould--Hill
North Berwick
E. Hi. Prescott
Susan Frances Hill
Charles E. Hill
Stamford
Conn
Hneodore Gould
Portland
Guion McAllister Rites Held at Trinity Chapel
Amelia Hamilton McAllister, daughter of the late Dr. Francis Marion McAllister, former rector of Trinity Church, Elizabeth, was married at Trinity Chapel on Tuesday October 20 1908. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. Joan R. Atkinson and the Vicar of Trinity Chapel William H. Wibbert D D with George Guion as a participant.
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Guion—Mallister
Trinity Chapel
Amelia Hamilton McAllister
Francis Marion McAllister
Trinity Church
Elizabeth
Joan R. Atkinson
William H. Wibbert
George Guion
Balfe Mary Died in Brooklyn Widow of Patrick Balfe
Death notices from The Tribune list several obituaries including Mary Balfe of 20 Wrekoff Street Brooklyn widow of Patrick Balfe with a solemn requiem mass at Agnes Church corner Hoyt and Sackett streets on Saturday at 9 AM Also listed are notices for Byrnes Button Brown Coleman Fink Gannon Geraty Greenleaf Stimson and others with funeral details and interment locations in Brooklyn and nearby towns.
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Brooklyn
Mary
Patrick Balfe
Agnes
Hoyt and
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Om Seturcay
Blydenburgh
Sarstogm
Wardwell
Harry D
Mary E. Stydenburgh
Brown
J Button
Joseph Jobs Button
St Matthew's Church
Tompkins Ave
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Ul Oced
Byrnes
19Th St
Mary Z Byrnes
Michael Byrnes
Black W. Coleman
Fourth Ave
Warwick
Fink
German Hospital
Daniel Fink
Himrodst
St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church
Stanhope St
Onederdonk
Gannon
Mary T. Gannon
Canarsie Lane
Brocklyn
Holy Cross Church
Holy Crees Cemetery
In Memoriam Elmendorf 1908 Memorial Service Held
In Memoriam notice for Rev Joachim Elmendorf BD who died in 1908. Service at Second Re formed Church Lenox Ave and 123rd Street October 25 at 8 pm followed by funeral and burial in Poughkeepsie. Also a memorial for John Fellows who entered into rest October 23, 1908.
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Saratoga Springs
S. T
Joachim Elmendorf
Second Reformed
Lenox
Poughkeep
Sie. X. Y
Fellows
John Fellows
Woodlawn Cemetery Ad Access by Harlem Trains
Woodlawn Cemetery offers easy access from Grand Central Station via Harlem trains and local trolleys on Webster and Jerome avenues or by carriage. Lots start at $150. For Book of Views contact Gramercy 4853 or 20 East Jan Street, New York City. Undertakers Frank E Campbell at 2413 West 294th Street Chapel offers private and public ambulances. Telephone 1324 Central.
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Grand Central Station
Webster
Jerome Avenue
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East Jan St
New York City
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Tei
Cnelzsa
Job applications solicited at Uptown Tribune Office
The New York Tribune invites applicants for various positions at its Uptown office, 1364 Broadway between 36th and 37th streets. Office hours are 9 a m to 6 p m.
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Tribune Subscription Rates and Offices Throughout City
Subscriptions to THE TRIBUNE offered by mail inc country and abroad with flexible changes. Rates cover daily weekly tri weekly and farmer editions with various monthly terms. Foreign and Canadian rates listed along with numerous domestic offices and international bureaus for subscription and advertising services.
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