13 Jul 1907
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1907
Page
1
Excerpt continues a tense domestic drama with Anita and the narrator debating love, freedom, and marriage. Anita asserts a desire to leave, while the narrator rewrites their shaky union as a misstep. Conversations probe love versus covetousness and the weight of past prejudices as they part. The scene recalls a memory of roses at a homecoming.
A tense confrontation unfolds as Exxal Langdon, under pressure from his rivals, attempts to transfer control of the coal combine. The narrator, weighing Langdon’s duplicity against Roebuck’s power, watches Langdon’s fall from grace unfold through market maneuvers and hidden traps. The chapter ends with a cryptic note that Langdon is heavily short textiles, hinting at a planned disclosure to come.
A narrator recalls a failed escape and a tangled feud with Roebuck as he plots to dismantle the Power Trust. Amid admissions of deceit and financial malfeasance, he weighs options to force buyback and expose concealed profits funneled to Roebuck and kin, while relationships fray under strain.
An Italian sea captain’s claim that perforated sails gain power from wind air cushions proved true after experiments showed holes relieve the cushion effect. The sails, pierced to allow wind through, produced satisfactory results by balancing air pressure.
The piece notes De Quincey attended St Peter's Church in Manchester as a boy, a church soon to be pulled down. The first rector was his tutor and supposedly owned 330 sermons, which the youth found to be a personal instrument of intellectual growth. He heard only morning services, leaving 330 minus two sermons as a palæstra of mental gymnastics.
The Top of Colorado notes Colorado has no equal in high mountains. It lists 407 peaks above 10,000 feet, 395 above 11,000, 223 above 12,000, 149 above 13,000, and 33 or more above 14,000 feet, highlighting the state's mountainous scale.
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