The Price of Dishonor Contends with Visconti Pursuit
Francisco aids wounded Tomaso in a deserted villa near Verona and vows to oppose Visconti. As the night unfolds, Visconti rides with a demon’s fury, leaving a bloodstained parchment of poetry in his wake while Francisco sustains hope for future confrontation.
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Tomaso
Vittore
Miesser
Francisco
Verona
Giorgio Ligezzi
Leanez
Messer
de la Scala
Vittere
Della Scala
Della” Scala
Visconti
Franciseg Gamly
Yried
Francisc
Lombardy
Milan
Visconti Dictates Dowry in Secret Bargain for Royal Alliance
In a small, leathered room at the Visconti palace, the duke presses for a hundred thousand florins in gold as the price for his sister’s alliance with the Duke of Orleans. Giannotto, the pale, red-haired secretary, documents the ruthless bargaining while Visconti toys with power and European ties. Mr. H. S. Holt is named President of the Royal Bank.
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Visconti
Brescia
Giannotto
Asmile
Orleans
Giannetto
Tisio
Europe
Canada Briefs Signal Cryptic Telegraphic News
A Montreal woman loses 1000 dollars during Christmas shopping. Ottawa hosts the Fat Stock Show January 18 to 23. A white deer and a black fox shot by a Prince Edward hunting party. The steamer P. P. Pratt burned off Long Point Island. crew manned a yawl. Ontario spends about 750000 on colonization roads and bridges this year. Prof Adam Shortt says trades unions vital to democracy. Seventy grain trains with 2210 cars moved through Fort William over weekend. James McQueen abducted at Emerson and taken across the border by US secret service. Black Hand letters threaten Montreal lawyer Charles H Fowler. N K Laflamme receives Black Hand demand. Mackenzie & Mann option Rainy River Railway at sixteen million dollars. Western CP R union mechanics donate one day’s pay to eastern workers.
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Canada
Montreal
Ottawa
Prince Edward
P. P. Pratt
Long Point Island
Yawl
Ontario
Adam Shortt
Fort William
James McQueen
Emerson
Man
United States Secret Service
Charles H. Fowler
Burford
N. K. Laflamme
K. C
Duluth
Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann
Rainy River
Asquith Announces Beer Hop Substitutes Bill
Premier Asquith announced on Thursday afternoon that a bill would be introduced in the House of Commons to prohibit the use of hop substitutes in beer manufacture.
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Asquith
House of Commons
Aerodrome to be tested at Hammondsport new invention
The aerodrome invented by J A D McCurdy a Toron ton University graduate will be tested at Hammondsport New York soon. Whiskey candy that dissolves in water is offered for sale in the local option town of North Yakima Washington. Peter Van Vlissingen a Chicago real estate dealer confessed to obtaining 700000 by forged notes and deeds. He received an indeterminate term in the penitentiary.
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J. A. D. McCurdy
Toronton University
Hammondsport
N. Y
North Yakima
Wash
Peter van Vlissingen
Chicago
Global tensions and imperial moves loom in early 20th century
Belgium takes control of the Congo Free State as Sunday passes. Austria and Serbia, and Turkey and Bulgaria, appear on the brink of war. Holland proposes an international peace conference committee. China faces revolution fears with discontented claimants. The Kaiser cancels public appearances. China’s baby emperor mourns his nurse. Persian leaders seek foreign support to uphold the constitution. Ten thousand foreign troops deploy in Beijing to restore order. Yuan Shikai reportedly seeks refuge in the British Legation.
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Belgium
Congo Free State
Austria
Servia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Holland
China
Pekin
Yuan Shi Kai
Legation
Prohibition in New Zealand election results reported
A Wellington despatch shows the Government with 35 seats, the Opposition 16, and Independents 3. Second ballots are planned in 22 constituencies. Fourteen districts voted for the no license policy and six supported license-reduction measures. Prohibitionists expect at least 150 public houses to close and some wholesale licenses to be cancelled.
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Wellington
Canadian ban on PA cattle imports for six months
Ottawa dispatch reports the Governor General in Council banned bringing cattle or hides from Pennsylvania into Canada for six months due to a severe outbreak of foot and mouth disease there. The order aims to prevent spread while authorities monitor the situation.
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Ottawa
Governor-General-in-Council
Canada
Pennsylvania
World Markets Ontario Wheat Prices Across Grains
Ontario and Manitoba futures and spot prices for wheat oats barley corn rye and related measures listed by grade and location. Includes No 1 northern No 2 northern No 2 white No 3 mixed and track lake ports Canada wide with figures for flour millfeed and freight ranges.
Market Rates for Produce and Poultry in Local Trade
Prices show Apples at 2.50 to 3.50 per barrel for good quality and 1.50 to 2 for cooking. Beans prime 1.80 to 1.85, hand-picked 1.90 to 1.95 per bushel. Honey combs 2.25 to 2.75 per dozen, strained 10 to lle per pound. Hay No 1 timothy 11 to 11.50 a ton, No 2 7 to 8. Straw 6.50 to 8 on track. Ontario potatoes 60 to 62 cents per bag, Delawares 75 to 80 cents. Poultry dressed chickens 9 to 10 cents per pound, fowl 7 to 9? per pound, ducks 9 to 10 cents, geese 8 to 9, turkeys 12 to 12 1/2 cents.
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Timothy
Ontario
Butter and lard prices amid creamery goods noted
Price notes show butter pounds at 22 to 23 cents, creamery rolls at 27 to 28 cents, sol ids at 23 to 26 cents, eggs at 22 to 23 cents per dozen in storage, lard quoted 28 to 30 cents per dozen, cheese large at 1.34 dollars per pound and twins at 13 percent.
Pork and Lard Prices From Market Ledger
Market notes list pork short cut at 23 half per bar rel and 19 to 19 50 for prices. Lard prices show tierces 13 tubs 134c pails 13%c. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats quote long clear bacon 12c to 12 c, hams large 12% to 13c, small 11 to 14 c, backs 17c to 17%c, shoulders 10c, rolls 11 to 14 c, breakfast bacon 15c to 16c, green meats out of pickle 11c less than smoked.
Montreal grain and dairy prices in wholesale market report
Montreal reports wide ranges in grain prices with Western No 2 white oats at 4 64c and Ontario No 2 white at 45c per bushel ex store. Manitoba Spring wheat patents 6 dollars, Winter patents 5 to 5 25, Manitoba bran 21 dollars per ton, cheese Westerns 12 and butter finest creamery 27 to 28 cents per pound.
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Montreal
Ontario
Manitoba
Shorts
United States Markets Wheat and Flour Prices Summary
Wheat prices in Minneapolis and Milwaukee show December futures at 1.04 and 1.03 to 1.06 per bushel with May bids around 1.08 and 1.07. North ern and No 2 Northern ranges cited, flour prices for patent and clears listed. Rye and barley prices noted with standard quality bids and ranges.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Milwaukee
Seuthern
Cattle Market Prices Mixed in Toronto Trade
Toronto reports varied cattle values with best butchers' steers and heifers selling from 4.25 to 4.50 per cwt. Good loads bring 4 to 4.25, medium stock 3.35 to 3.75, and common cattle from 1.75 per cwt upward. Light stockers quoted 1.75 to 2.25 per cwt. milch cows noted at high values.
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Toronto
Helpless in face of death despatch from Hamilton
Violet Norton twelve year old daughter of Edward Norton of Dundas was run over by a Hamilton & Dundas car near the canal crossing. Her foot caught in the frog and she was fatally crushed under the wheels. She died at her home that night after extensive loss of blood and collapse.
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Hamilton
Violet Norton
Edward Norton
Flamboro
Dundas
Hamilton & Dundas
Miss Norton
Ryckert
City Hospital
Veal Demand Sets Tone as Hogs Sell Steadily in Toronto
Market notes report select hogs sold at 6.25 per cwt while fed cattle are described as watered and priced at 70 dollars total. Ordinary cows bring around 30 dollars each, sheep held steady, and lamb demand lagged with slow sales. The report places the sale in Toronto with veal calves in demand.
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Toronto
Rich Copper Discovery Near Isle St. Ignace
Despatch from Port Arthur reports a rich copper find near Fler Island off Isle St. Ignac at Nepigon Strait. Didace Carufel of Sudbury and a partner claim seventeen parcels, with ore extending for miles through a chain of mines from Lamb Island lighthouse eastward.
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Port Arthur
Fler Island
Isle St. Ignac
Nepigon Strait
Didace Carufel
Sudbury
Lamb Island
Carufel
Mammoth Elevator Planned for Fort William Yard
A Winnipeg despatch reports W R Sinks general manager of the Stewart Company preparing to undertake a contract to build a vast handling warehouse for the G T P at Fort William. The mammoth elevator will have concrete tanks with a capacity of three and a quarter million bushels and an estimated cost around 1 250 600 dollars.
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Winnipeg
W. R. Sinks
Stewart Company
Fort William
America
Port Elgin welder killed by rivet machine mishap
A Port Elgin dispatch reports Edward Williams a welder died Thursday when a rivet machine toppled while helpers moved it. The base on the rollers shifted throwing the machine into a pinch bar he was using, striking him on the right side and causing instant death.
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Port Elgin
Ont
Edward Williams
Dominion Pressed Steel-Works
Williams
Smallpox Breaks Out in Lumber Camps Near Peterborough
A despatch from Peterborough Ont reports smallpox in lumber camps in Cavendish Township north of Peterborough County with eight cases. The disease is described as mild type and Dr Smythe of the Provincial Board of Health has arrived to oversee the cases.
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Peterborough
Ont
Cavendish Township
Peterborough County
Smythe
Provincial Board of Health
Japanese immigrant Ippei Nagi in North Vancouver shoots wife
A Vancouver despatch reports Ippei Nagi, a North Vancouver resident, shot and killed his wife while attempting to shoot rats on Wednesday morning. He will be held by police pending coroner’s investigation.
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Vancouver
Ippei Nagi
North
Fruit Factory Abuses Spark Ontario Inquiry
A Ferente despatch reports Ontario factory inspectors will condemn methods at apple evaporating plants across the province. Evaporators operated in barns and skating rinks lacked water towels and sanitation, with workers sometimes walking on apples. Reports note improvement in canning and evaporating plants in the Niagara Peninsula.
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Férente
Ontario
James S. Duff
Niagara Peninsula
Richest Swiss Dead in Lugano The Gardener Guide
Geneva dispatch reports Dr Gabrini the richest and most eccentric Swiss died at Lugano leaving a 509000 fortune built largely in America. He lived simply wearing shabby clothes and many tourists at his Lugano chateau Clani mistook him for a gardener guiding them and accepting tips with glee.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Gabrini
Lugano
America
Dr. Gabrini
Clani
Johnson Found Guilty in Kenora Murder Trial
Despatch from Kenora reports George F. Johnson convicted of murdering Mrs. Ackerman on July 28. Judge Britton sentenced him to hang on January 26. The jury deliberated under twenty minutes. The crime was described as brutal and unprovoked. Johnson claimed amnesia regarding striking Mrs. Ackerman.
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Kenora
George F. Johnson
Women win votes in Victoria legislative council bill passage
A Melbourne despatch reports the Victoria Legislative Council passed a bill enabling women to vote in state elections, after prior rejections. The move grants women suffrage in both Commonwealth and State elections across Australia.
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Melbourne
Australia
Victoria Legislative Council
Doctor from Atwood Died of Glanders in Chicago
A Stratford despatch reports Dr. Thomas M. Wilson of Atwood Ontario died of glanders on Thursday at the Chicago Presbyterian Hospital. He is believed to have contracted the disease while pursuing a postgraduate course at the Ruthnell Medical College.
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Thomas M. Wilson
Atwood
Startford
Atwood, Ont
Chicago Presbyterian Hospital
Rushnell Medical College
Inventor Patrick Creedon Dies in Cincinnati Hotel
Despatch from Cincinnati reports Patrick J Creedon, 45, an inventor born in Peterboro Ontario, found dead at the Burnet House. Coroner says likely natural causes from a hemorrhage linked to starvation. Creedon arrived November 11 to organize a company to market his patented bit and secret steel hardening process, with Hoover and Burdsall. papers indicate he was married and negotiations had attracted several thousand dollars for a $75,000 venture.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Patrick’ J. Creedon
Peterboro
Ont
Burnet House
Coe
Creedon
Arthur Francis Hoover
Charles S. Burdsall
Burdsall
Hoover
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