The White Knight at Virginia Tourney Reveals Vaillant
Damory Court heir John Vaillant steps in as substitute knight at Runnymede joust. He rides in white, with a red cordon and crimson plume, drawing astonished applause from Katharine Fargo and onlookers as Katharine learns his identity.
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Damory Court
Knightly Pageantry Sparks Hidden Names in Virginia Tournament
In a grand stand procession the herald proclaims knights by title as John Valiant secretly fears revealing Shirley's name. Major delivers a speech praising chivalry and duty before Nancy Chalmers notes the seasoned official’s stage presence. TO BE CONTINUED.
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Betty Page
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Dance Den and Dignity Clash in County Prom Scene
In Chapter XXI the Major and Doctor spar over pride and past friendships as they await a county dance. The Major heads to the field while visitors Silas Fargo and Katharine are noted at the judge’s party. The Doctor plans a ten mile drive but vows to join the prom later.
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Nancy Chalmers
Bristow
Southall
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Chalmers, I Wonder,” Said the Doctor. “They're Strangers Here.” Thenn
New York
A Virginian Runnymede June imagery at Damory Court
In chapter twenty two Valiant prepares for the day at Damory Court. He dons a white flannel suit with a pale gray scarf as the Blue Ridge and violet Virginia landscape surround him. The scene emphasizes summer air and stylish dress against a sunlit setting.
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Dance with a Surinam Chief’s Daughter in Jungle Ring
In Harper’s Magazine Charles W. Furlong recalls a Surinam jungle dance with a chief’s daughter among drummers. He joins the ring, guided by Mr. Smit, and dances in a coy, rhythmic, non touching style while the crowd approves.
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Smit
Case of Commotion in California Household
Rose Stahl recounts a tumultuous California household where a forceful mistress caused constant upheaval. An afternoon earthquake rattled pictures crockery and furniture as residents faced shocks and a resigned cry from the stairs asking Lizzie what she was doing.
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Youth's Magazine
Dutch Sailor Berkin Claims 65 Years Of Smoking Heavy
A Dutch sailor called Berkin, a devotee of My Lady Nicotine, boasts that for 65 years his pipe has consumed a pound of tobacco weekly. He has thus burned through over 30 hundredweight of tobacco, about 24 times his own weight.
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Berkin
Beach Victim Identified as San Antonio Girl
Officials say the woman found on a Galveston beach Tuesday morning with a bullet wound in the temple is Miss Elvira Davis private secretary to Colonel George W Brackenridge of San Antonio. Identification by Dr M Charlotte Schaefer and two Houston cousins is confirmed.
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George W. Brackenridge
San Antonio
M. Charlotte Schaefer
Mexican ex-President Huerta plot details confirmed in Toronto
Torontea Luis Elguero, a Huerta delegate at Niagara Falls mediation, arrived Monday and reaffirmed that a counter revolution in Mexico was in prospect. He said Toronto would be the center of operations by former President Huerta and General Felsuz, who would head...
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Luis Elguero
Huerta
Niagara Falls
Mexico
Toronto
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Heaud Thaioe
First Home Rule Battle in Dublin Raises Death Toll
Datlin Thresteen and one woman die as a battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers fires on a Dublin mob late Sunday. Sixty or more wounded, seven likely to die, including three women and a 10 year old boy.
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Dublin
Funeral for three killed as crowd pays silent tribute
Dublin observers mark the deaths of three people shot during a can-running event by Irish nationalist volunteers. More than 200000 people stand bareheaded and silent in the streets as shops close in tribute to the victims.
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Former Great Actress Georgia Tyler Kent Dies at 61
Worcester Massachusetts Mrs Georgia Tyler Kent a leading American stage actress until retirement seventeen years ago died Saturday at age sixty one Her career linked her with Lawrence Barrett John McCullough Montague and Keene tracing ancestry to Alfred the Great
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Keene
Lumber Shipment Heads to Texas From Morgan City
One million feet of lumber, part of a cargo totaling 80 million feet to be delivered over four years, departed Wednesday bound for Port Arthur Texas from Morgan City Louisiana.
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Texas
Ravages of Charbon Check Near El Campo
Charbon ravages near El Campo Texas have been checked and only a few fatalities among domestic animals are now reported according to local officials.
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Charbon
House Agrees on Lever Cotton Futures Tax Measure
The House approved the conference report on the Lever cotton futures bill by 148 to 79. The measure would impose a prohibitive tax on all cotton contracts not tied to government standards.
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Washington
House
Crozco to Leave Mexico City for Canada General Crozco Far From Home
General Pascual Crozco Jr abandons his independent movement and intends to depart Mexico City for Canada. He leaves behind a fractured command and suspicions of emigration plans.
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