Castle of Romance Ends with Confession on Horseback
In a rural scene, Warburton and Jane reveal hidden feelings after a fraught masquerade. She admits love while he rejects charity and vows to pursue them honestly. A touching, dawnlike resolution follows as they walk home with the horses, the world around them glowing with late light.
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Nancy
Washington
Stermind
Tan
Love
Mr. Warburton
Prince Charming
Warburton
Angels
Jane
Gare du Nord
Paris
God of
Oyster Bay scene over White House wedding plan papers
In Oyster Bay Miss Asi L. Esac creates a disturbance during a church service as she claims a planned White House wedding was to be a double affair with an army officer. Secret Service intervened to block her attempts to reach President Roosevelt and her accusations involve a supposed life and death motive.
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White House
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Asi L. Egac
Roosevelt
Christ’s Episcopal Church
Miss Esac
Miss Case
Sagamore Hill
Secret Service
James Duffy
Hier
Duffy
President Roosevelt
Quentin
Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Illinois Winter Wheat Yield Tops 27 Million Bushels
The Illinois State Board of Agriculture reports winter wheat yield at 27,365,552 bushels with an average of 20 bushels per acre, up 4,906,232 from 1905 and noted as excellent quality. Spring wheat aporta 1,692,122 bushels, oats harvest reaches 3,018,295 acres for 90,971,381 bushels, while corn condition on August 1 stands at 81 percent of average amid a 60 day drought.
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Springfield
State Board of Agriculture
Illinois
Four Lives Lost in Spokane River Drowning
Davenport, Washington. Five social figures from Davenport drowned while boating on the Spokane River about 12 miles northeast of town. The dead include Miss Winnie Jones, A. L. Bergett, Mrs. A. L. Gergett, Roy Howard, and A. L. Imlan. Four of the victims died heroically while attempting to save others as the river's whirlpools and undercurrent claimed them one by one.
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Davenport
Wash
Spokane
Winnie Jones
A. L. Bergett
A. L. Gergett
Roy Howard
A. L. Imlan
Taft to Guard Chinese Laborers on Panama Canal Contracts
Washington states the United States will require safeguards to prevent injustice to Chinese laborers on the Panama Canal. Specifications for 2,500 workers will let the War Secretary review contracts labor agents strike with Chinese workers sent to the isthmus, enabling Taft to curb contractor discrimination.
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Washington
United States
Panama Canal
Canal Commission
Taft
Deacon and Wife Endrows with Bitter Farewell
Deacon Grimes and his wife argue after a plan to confess faults leads to a cross exchange. Mrs. Grimes admits temper, he calls her bearish and a brute. She leaves for her mother’s, while he plans further confession.
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Deacon Grimes
Mrs. Grimes
William
Deacon
Louisa
Parisian Women Are Graceful Through Diet and Exercise
Parisian women are described as graceful due to a dairy rich diet and light meals after age twenty. French girls reportedly drink milk abundantly until twenty, then favor light nonfattening repasts. Outdoor activity centers on short strolls and household chores to save money and curb excess flesh.
Markets Across Cities Report Mixed Prices and Commodities
Partial market roundup from New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Pittsburg dated Aug 14 1906 shows flour and grain prices steady to firm with wheat corn oats and barley quoted in various grades Cattle veal sheep and hogs prices vary by city with steers lambs and wethers noted. Notable ranges include New York oats 42 44c wheat 76 1 4c and hogs 6 75 in Yorkers in New York and higher veal prices in East Buffalo.
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New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
East Buffalo
Pittsburg
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Bobbs-Merrill Company
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Crank
Illnois Board
Toledo
Titec
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