Valiant Fortune Fades and Damory Court Reborn
Rich society figure John Valiant loses his wealth as the Valiant corporation fails and he moves to rehabilitate Damory court in Virginia. He meets Shirley Dandridge and faces an estate wealth hidden in old walnut trees while royal pageantry unfolds at the Damory court tournament with Shirley crowned queen of beauty.
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John Valiant
Valiant Corporation
Damory Court
Virginia
Shirley Dandridge
Shirley
Major Bristow
Major
Valiant
Sassoon
Vironis
Doctor Southall
Mrs. Dandridge
Valliant
Shirley Dandrige
Katherine Fargo
Jefferson
Betty
Page
Miss Fargo
Love and longing at Damory Court gala
Katharine Fargo, radiant in rose mousseline, watches Shirley and John Valiant dance as a planned match frays. Valiant confesses love in the moonlit sun dial garden, while Katharine conceals growing humiliation and a fate tied to a calendar legend.
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Kismet
Virginia
Kyoto
India
Shirley
The Doctor Speaks Amid Garden Dance Delights
Katharine Fargo holds a poised court as music fills the roses and couples drift through the evening. A creeping doubt tinges the scene, yet elegance and calm prevail in the chapter.
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Katharine Fargo
Appearance Versus Duty in Historic Journalism
A London paper quote about a journalist who cannot maintain the necessary appearance evokes past times. The piece recalls Samuel Boyse, a Johnson contemporary, who wrote only when his clothes were pawned. He used borrowed funds for meat and mushrooms, then worked in bed with a slit blanket to free his pen hand.
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London
Samuel Boyse
Johnson
Made Him Feel Lonesome Sam Blythe Refuses Alcohol
The writer Sam Blythe left drinking behind after mounting the water cart and over several months received 415 whisky bottles from 312 people. At the Waldorf he declines companions offering alcohol and insists on staying with a non alcoholic drink.
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Sam Blythe
Blythe
the Waldorf
Sam
Feely
Blythe laments lost friends after 20 years of collecting drinking pals
The Cincinnati Times Star quotes Blythe expressing sorrow that after spending two decades building a circle of drinking friends he now has no one to share time with. He reflects on the loss of companionship and the changing social ties that come with time.
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Blythe
Cincinnati Times-Star
Concave Cinema Screen Aims For Distortion Free Viewing
A Chicago inventor patents and markets a concave screen shaped as a sphere segment. The lens sits at the screen’s focal point so all light hits at the same angle and reflects uniformly to the audience. Popular Mechanics notes it also improves theater acoustics by reflecting sound waves similarly to the light, reaching all areas.
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Chicago
Texas Farmers Favor Initiative and Recall
Fort Worth convention of the Farmers' Educative and Co Operative Union of Texas endorses federal loans to farmers and calls for a separate Agricultural and Mechanical College from the University of Texas. It backs licensed bonded mutual warehouses and a cooperative marketing system with a warehouse commission and strict storage standards.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Farmers’ Educative and Co-Operative Union of Texas
State Agricultural and Mechanical College
University of Texas
Commissioner of Agriculture
Farmers’ Union of Texas
Texas
Receivers Named for J. and G. N. Houston Texas Granting Petition
Petition for receivership filed by holders of 13 million dollars in bonds of the International and Great Northern Railway Company of Texas. Judge Walter T. Burns appointed Captain James A. Baker of Houston and Colonel Cecil A. Lyon of Sherman as receivers under bonds of 50000 each.
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Houston
Tex
International and Great Northern Railway Company of
Texas
Walter T. Burns
James A. Baker
Cecil A. Lyon
Sherman
Officers Re-elected by Texas Council of Carpenters and Joiners
At Waxahachie Texas the Texas Council of Carpenters and Joiners held its last session Thursday and re-elected officers. D B White of Sherman remains president J H Johnson of Galveston is first vice president J G Fanchier of Austin is second vice president and J K Proctor of Houston is secretary treasurer.
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Waxahachie
Tex
Texas Council of Carpenters and Joiners
B. White
Sherman
J. H. Johnson
Galveston
J. G. Fanchier
Austin
J. K. Proctor
Houston
Lane Files Contest Claim After Texas Convention
Austin report states that at the Texas Democratic convention in El Paso Jeff McLemore of Houston was named congressman at large while W P Lane announced plans to file a contest petition. Lane claims he won a majority of votes and is the true nominee.
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Austin
Tex
el Paso
Jeff McLemore
Houston
W. P. Lane
Lane
McLemore
Break Up Live Stock Thefts in Cameron County
Brownsville Texas sheriff detains five men in distributed areas as part of a crackdown on wholesale livestock thefts in Cameron County. The arrests represent progress in curbing the persistent thefts affecting local ranchers and farms.
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Brownsville
Tex
Cameron County
Luckenbach Steamship to Run Galveston to San Francisco Route
The Luckenbach Steamship Company announced a new regular line from Galveston Texas to San Francisco with the Panama Canal opening.
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Galveston, Tex
Luckenbach Steamship Company
Galveston
San Francisco
Panama Canal
Texas Building Material Men's Association formed in Dallas
Dallas leaders Friday formed the Texas Building Material Men's Association during a meeting in Dallas. T. KE. Jackson of Dallas was elected president to head the new organization guiding local building supply interests across the Texas region.
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Dallas, Tex
Fort Worth
Houston
Texas Building Material Men's Association
T. KE. Jackson
Dallas
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Chalmers
Washington Post
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Hell's-Fall-Acre
Fargo
New York
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Never-Never Land
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