The Price of Dishonor Chapter Cont'd Ends in Choice
Mastino Della Scala debates Visconti's terms to rescue Isotta or save Lombardy. Ligozzi urges honor while Mastino faces betrayal, personal vow, and a fateful bargain that could doom towns or justice. The envoy Giannotto arrives as tension peaks.
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de Lana
Giannotte
Visconti
Santa Maria
Della Scala
Giannotto
Messers
Ligozzi
Mastino
Isotta
Lombardy
Italy
d’Este
Vincenzo
Julia Gonzaga
Isotta d’Este
I4gozzi
Heaven
Zagozzi
Conrad
Milan
Mastino della Scala Faces Harsh Choice Over Verona Siege
In a tense scene Mastino accepts Visconti terms to spare his wife Isotta, though his deceit will betray Veronese towns and soldiers. He reflects on the cost to Verona and the Scaligeri banner while awaiting Visconti’s vengeance. The moment ends with Mastino’s anguished cry for his city as the siege looms.
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Della Scala
Mastino
Ligozzi
Gian Visconti
Visconti
Giannotto
Duke of Milan
Ligezzi
Bigozzi
de Lana
Milan
Mastino Della Scala
Estes
Julia Gonzaga
Isotta
Veronese
Italy
Verona
Ferrara
Mantua
Gongaras
Pavia
Scaligeri
Ontario Railway Board Orders Water in Long Route Cars
A Toronto despatch reports a regulation by the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board effective immediately. Electric railway cars running twenty miles or more must provide a water receptacle with a cup and keep the receptacle filled with cool water for passengers and staff. The rule excludes street railways within towns or cities.
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Toronto
Ontario Railway and Municipal Board
Electric
Ontario
Reward Offered by Canadian Pacific for Train Bandits
Winnipeg dispatch reports the Canadian Pacific offers a 5 000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the recent express train robbery at Ducks British Columbia. No arrests announced to date.
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Winnipeg
The
Canadian Pacific
Ducks
British Columbia
Shell Explosion Wounds Officer At Signal Hill Fort
Sergeant Wilkinson of the Army Ordnance Corps at Workpoint Barracks was badly wounded when the detonator of a twelve pound shell exploded in the Ordnance shed at Signal Hill. Captain Gillen was lightly wounded. Wilkinson was taken to Workpoint Barracks Hospital for treatment and may recover. Wilkinson’s time at Workpoint ends next Tuesday. A Conciliation Board has been formed to handle the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern labor questions in the west.
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Victoria
B. C
Wilkinson
Army Ordnance Corps
Workpoint Barracks
Gillen
Army Ordnance Oficer
Fort of
Signal Hill
Workpoint Barracks Hospital
Wikinson
Board of Conciliation
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian Northern Labor
World Markets Report on Canadian Grain Prices
Toronto June 29 prices across wheat barley oats peas and rye show No 1 Northern Manitoba wheat at 1.35, Ontario No 2 at 1.35, Canadian and American corn varying from 76c to 82c on track or outside with buckwheat at 70c outside. Bran and shorts listed with freight costs in Toronto and Manitoba.
Farm Produce and Supplies Price Snap Here
Prices listed for apples beans maple syrup hay straw potatoes and poultry show ranges for choice and seconds. Apple quality figures from 4 to 5 dollars for choice. beans prime 2.20 to 2.25 and hand-picked 2.40 to 2.45 per bushel. Hay timothy 12.50 to 13 per ton. straw 7.50 to 8. potatoes 80 to 15 cents per bag. Poultry prices: chickens yearlings 14 to 15 cents per lb. fowl 10 to 11 cents. turkeys 16 to 18 cents per lb.
Dairy market prices for butter eggs and cheese
Butter prints range 20 to 22 cents per pound with tub and large rolls at 18 to 18 cents. Creamery and separator butter 23 to 24 cents and 21 to 22 cents. Eggs quoted 19 to 20 cents per dozen. Cheese large old 14 to 15 cents per pound and twins 14.4 to 14.0 cents. now quoted 18 cents for large and 12 1/2 cents for twins.
Bacon Prices and Cut Variations in Market Report
Market brief lists bacon varieties with price ranges from 1344 to 1594 cents per pound for long clear in case lots to 25.50 26 for short cut. Ham types include light to medium at 54 to 1Gc and heavy at 14 to 144c. Lard prices show tierces 14 to 14}c, tubs 14% to Me, pails 14 to Me.
Grain and dairy prices report from Montreal market
Grain oats range from 59 to 60 cents for No 1 feed to 58 to 59 for No 1 Western. Barley 72 to 74 cents No 2 Manitoba feed barley 67 to 68 cents. Buckwheat 69 to 70 cents. Manitoba Spring wheat patents firsts 6.30 to 6.50, seconds 5.80 to 6. Manitoba strong bakers 5.60 to 5.80. Winter patents 6.75, straight rollers 6.50 to 6.60, bags 3.15 to 3.20, extra 2.65 to 2.70. Manitoba bran 22 to 23, shorts 24 to 25, pure mouille 33 to 35, mixed mouille 28 to 30. Cheese Westerns 11.34 to 12 1 2? Easterns 11 to 11 1 2. Butter Finest creamery 23 to 23 1 2. Eggs 19 to 19 1 2 per dozen.
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Toronto
Ontario
Manitoba
Georgian Bay
Western Canada
Bay
Shorts
Montreal
Wheat and grain prices in Chicago markets noted
United States markets report shows Chicago wheat bids for No. 2 to No. 3 grades ranging from $1.20 to $1.95 with several subtypes listed. Corn oats and bran prices also listed with varying bid ranges and cash terms for multiple grades and forms.
Live Stock Market Report from Montreal and Toronto
Montreal prices show prime beeves at high per pound rates with good animals, milk cows selling from $25 to $55 and calves $2.50 to $10. Sheep at 4e per lb and lambs around $3.75, fat hogs up to $34 per hundredweight. Toronto export dealers’ latest figures.
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Montreal
Toronto
Gas Explosion Kills Seventeen at Lackawanna Coal Mine
A blast at Lackawanna Coal & Coke Mine No 4 in Webrum Penn early Wednesday morning kills seventeen miners and injures sixteen. Most victims are foreigners. The explosion, likely from gas, shakes the village as families gather at the pit seeking news.
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Webrum
Penn
Lackawanna Coal & Coke Company
Market Summary for Livestock and Hogs Prices
The prime variety sold up to 6.55 with ordinary loads firm from 36 to 86.40. Demand outstripped butchers’ supply causing price rises. Finest grades 5.50 to 5.80, ordinary loads 5.00 to 5.25. Cows in demand up 15 to 20 cents. Stockers and feeders steady but short. Milkers and springers sought. Lambs easier except Spring lambs 4 to 9? per lb. Hogs select 7.75 f.o.b. and 38 fed and watered.
Extension of meat inspection to local butchers urged
Ottawa despatch reports a deputation urged Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Hon. Sydney Fisher to extend meat inspection provisions and provide compensation for condemned and seized animals to local meat firms operating in a single province. Delegation included major firms Laing & Co., Blackwell and Flavelle, Matthews, Fearman and others. Ministers promised to influence provincial legislation to adopt similar pure food controls.
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Ottawa
Wilfrid Laurier
Sydney Fisher
Blackwell and Flavelle
Toronto
Laing & Co
Montreal
Matthews
Hatton
Collingwood
Fearman
Hamilton
Sir Wilfrid
Mr. Fisher
Expansion of S00 steel works near Sault Ste Marie
A Lake Superior Corporation interview reports No 3 open hearth furnace produced first steel on Wednesday. Foundation work on No 3 blast furnace has started and the structural mill is planned to begin in about two weeks. Completion of blast furnace is a year and the structural mill about seven months.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
W. C. Franz
Lake Superior Corporation
Franz
Cyclone survivors found in Texas storm cellar
Despatch from Galveston reports Charles Dilson his wife and their 19 year old daughter trapped two weeks in a storm cellar beneath their Brown county farm. They survived by raw potatoes and limited air after the house was wrecked by a cyclone. Searchers had believed the family had deserted their home.
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Galveston
Texas
Charles Dilson
Brown County
Dilson
Farmer E Dodd Stops Train with Wire Fence
Yorkton Saskatchewan despatch reports farmer E Dodd who opposed the C P R through his farm wired the track and was jailed for obstructing a train. He had warned the engineer he would stop the line soon and previously held up a construction gang at gunpoint until police restrained him.
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Yorkton
Sask
E. Dodd
Dodd
Britain Germany talk unseen calm urged by Grey
A London despatch reports Foreign Secretary Grey stated there is nothing under discussion between Germany and Great Britain that could cause difficulty, and nothing in the government’s innermost deliberations likely to ease German anxiety.
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London
Grey
Germany
Great Britain
Chicago Auto Slaughter Rates Raise Alarm
A Chicago despatch reports automobile deaths at three people every two weeks in the current year, compared with one per three weeks in 1907, per police statistics. The grim rise underscores growing road danger in the city.
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Chicago
Senate Increases Duties On Coal And Lumber Schedules
Washington dispatch reports the Senate Finance Committee, led by Mr Aldrich, approved a 60 cent per ton duty on cituminous coal and shale, 15 cents on coal stack or culza, and 20 percent ad valorem on coke and fuel compositions. A duty of 1.50 per thousand feet was set for sawed lumber with various finished lumber differentials, and clapboards, laths, and shingles duties raised. The reciprocity provision was left out, and multiple attempts to lower rates failed.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Aldrich
Senate
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Supply Drinking Water
Canadian Pacific Railway
Workpoint Barracks, B.C
HOG Products
United States
Northern
Pennsylvania
Mr. Dodd
Auto Slaughter
Canada
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