Brave Kate Heath Steals a Brit Plan to Save Greene
In 1781 South Carolina, Kate Heath aids General Nathaniel Greene by overhearing British officers planning a dawn attack. She rides through patrols, warns Greene, and helps thwart Lord Rawdon’s scheme, leading to a British retreat and her safe return home.
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South Carolina
General Greene
Tiger
Broad Rivers
Lord Rawdon
Mrs. Heath
George
Washington
Kate
Heaven
Rawdon
St. ES
Greene
Carolina
Colonel Roberts
England
Ate
Selim
Bes
Ava
Miss Heath
Guy
Gu Jackson
Vin Kate
Guy Jackson
Selimrod
Topper
Kate Heath
Nathaniel Greene
Jehovah
Kyte
Oon
Thing A
Buffalo News
Mandy and Van Jones in a Hollow Standoff
In a rural tale set in Chincapin Hollow a tense encounter develops between Mandy Gray Sam Gray and the violent Van Jones. Mandy refuses marriage and warns of consequences as Jones plots harm. Sam confronts Jones, cutting the mare's ears after suspected malice, leaving a bruising exchange that ends with a grim sense of justice in a rustic moral drama.
Inheritance leads Barbara Reed to Dodd & Son
Barbara Reed pursues a £500 legacy from late James Handford through solicitors Dodd & Son in King Street. She faces delays and shifting affections as Lawrence and Grant show interest but the inheritance passes to Elizabeth Drake. Barbara’s hopes fade, and a final note to Grant hints at acceptance of a changed future.
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James Handford
Widston
Messrs
Dodd & Son
King Street
Barbara Reed
Barbara
Stewart
Mrs. Stewart
Mr. Lawrence
John Grant
John
Barbard
Miss Reed
Elizabeth Drake
York
Miners in Nevada Mine Reported with Green Hair and Whiskers
A St. Louis Republic note describes miners at the Martin White mine in Ward Nevada turning green from fumes while smelting and roasting ores. The transformation is attributed to a mysterious mineral and highlights unique local lore from the mining community.
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Martin White
Ward, ‘Nev
St. Louis Republic
Shiloh's Vitalizer Guarantee Offer From Diet Drug Store
Advertisement claiming relief for dyspepsia and liver complaints at 75 cents per bottle. Promotes Shiloh's Vitalizer with a printed guarantee. buyer pays nothing if no benefit. Mentions Diet Drug Store and B.C. Orr.
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Sheloh
City Drug Store
Orr
Shiloh
B.C
Marae
Roses and Love Tests in Verse by Moore
A short eighteenth century style verse where the speaker offers roses as signals of love. A red rose indicates passion, a white rose modesty, wearing both implies willingness, and wearing neither implies reluctance. The speaker, Thomas J. Moore, seals the sentiment with confidence in a beloved's lips.
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Thomas J. Moore
Doctor Dash Ends Alcohol Habits Lesson At College
West physician recalls his class of eighteen where six drank habitually yet failed to reach fortune or status. He notes ten newsroom workers, all but one drank, with three dead and six in lesser positions while Ben Perry stayed sharp and became editor in chief. The doctor urges abstinence for success though not moralizing. A schoolboy in Australia lists public figures who abstain to excel in various fields.
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Dash
Ben Perry
Perry
Seaboard
Hanlan
Webb
Livingstone
Clark
Farrar
The Price of Drink Says How Much Is Needed
A Unitarian Journal piece notes how the cost of daily beverages equates to food and goods. One glass of beer could buy bread, two glasses a peck of potatoes, four glasses eggs, three gills of whiskey dressed fowl, and three glasses tea two quarters of a pound. It links daily alcohol spending to annual costs like coal, clothes, furniture, and rent.
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Unitarian Journal
Rum’s Destructive Path Warns of Vice’s Price
A verse warns how rum will scorch the brain and weary the heart, starving the body and distorting temper. It foresees crime filling prisons, ruin of state order, and faith turned from love to error as Christians falter under drink’s grip.
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Ruth
Christianity and Temperance in a Moral Appeal
A historical temperance piece argues that Christians who indulge harm others, citing self sacrifice and the weak. It contrasts Christian duty with personal gratification and quotes Rev. Dr. A. H. and a moral anecdote about how alcohol damages society. The piece includes a reflective tale of a man recounting his first drink given by his father and later his breakup with good life.
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A. H.umd
Firat
Whiskey at the Bottom of It
A fragment notes whiskey as a source of trouble and sorrow, claiming it deepens shame linked to a suit. Mentions Presbyterian, and mentions effects left behind in a dispute, with unclear context and names garbled.
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Stella G. Florence
Springfield
Tard Greene
Les
Mandy
van Jones
New Jerusalem
Van
Chincapin Hollow
Carteche
Boston
Andy Pigg
Joe Lee
Rand
Miss Pease
Mr. Gray
Cowskin Flat
Eine Bae
Ging
Miss Mandy
Allus
Sam
Jay van
Vananes
Sam Gray
Orning
Sami
Arkansaw Traveler
Brrr and
Wrisxex Money
Muca Bettezr Commodities
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