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Date: 17 May 1908
The Evans prize of $300 has been awarded to Ross Turner for his picture entitled "The Dawn," in the exhibition of the American Water Color Society. The introduction of music on Saturday afternoons is a popular feature of the exhibition, which will continue until May 24.
Date: 18 May 1908
BERLIN, May 17. -- News that $3,000,000 in gold has been engaged in New York for Germany causes some astonishment here, because the price of exchange makes it impossible for Berlin's bankers to import American gold at a profit; the statement cabled from the United States that part of the gold engaged this week for Paris is for the German account meets with a decided denial from Berlin financiers.
Date: 17 May 1908
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 16. -- A sharp altercation between Speaker Cannon and Representative J. Wesley Gaines to-day ended with the Speaker ordering the stenographer to strike from the record the remarks of the Representative from Tennessee. The incident occurred after the Speaker had been trying for fifteen minutes to induce "the gentlemen to cease conversation."
Date: 17 May 1908
Date: 17 May 1908
Date: 17 May 1908
Two Presidential booms are hard at work in dangerous proximity on lower Broadway. The Taft Organization of the State of New York has headquarters at No. 170. Directly across Broadway, in the new City Investing Building, Gov. Hughes's friends have opened headquarters for what is known as the Hughes Information Bureau.
Date: 18 May 1908
Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, consulting engineer of the General Electric Company at Schenectady and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Union College, painted a doleful picture yesterday afternoon of what life will be in the world when the coal supply has been exhausted, when the natural fertility of the soil has been used up, and when the population has largely increased.
Date: 17 May 1908
IF one believes with Pythagoras, surely the women of this Spring were birds of paradise in a former state. Their showing of radiant and vivid plumage leads one to believe this. Not only do they take kindly to the gorgeous combinations of the present times, but they fairly revel in them.