Escape and capture amid Carolina frontier fighting
Captain Ireton endures a brutal mock execution and is rescued by Abram Forney’s border fighters after a night ambush. He recounts a tense exchange with Falconnet, the fate of Margery’s schemes, and a daring escape with Catawba and loyal volunteers led by Colonel Davie, while noting the broader struggle of North Carolina Loyalists and Patriots.
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Hell
Odda
Ramsour's Mill
Abram Forney
Hardihood
Ephraim
Cap'n
Captain Forney
Tarleton
Carolina
Ike
Forney
The Legal Folly of Hanging as a Custom
A tale from London Tit-Bits recounts a man named Mahoney hanged in the old British custom for half an hour, his body handed to friends who carted him away. In the coffin the corpse suddenly sat up and shouted, provoking a fatal blow from a fellow spectator that killed him. Authorities refused charges, arguing a legally dead man cannot be murdered.
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Jenifer
Redcoats
Richard
Falconnot
The
Patriota
Martin
Tarleton
Sandy McGuire
Jock
Roger
Anid
North Carolina
Ireton
Great Brittain
Ireland
Mahoney
London
Why do you stop here in these apartments
A fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal quotes a curious exchange about finding an artist on the fifth floor and awaiting a drink poured down the tube, reflecting a quirky, informal moment.
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Louisville Courier- Journal
Court and law clash echoes in a judge and attorney exchange
A judge and an audacious attorney debate necessity and law quoting a proverb, while a Washington Star note flags the saying. The piece contrasts a legal scene with a global statistic: England used 1,494,089 horses on farms last year.
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Washington Star
England
The Spy Among Cornwallis Court at Charlotte
Captain Ireton, posing as a king's man, reaches Cornwallis headquarters in Charlotte. Margery protects him by guiding to a hidden garret above her father’s house while officers drift through the town in pursuit, as the South’s desperate struggle and Tory uprisings threaten the land.
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Tybec
Fangmen
Legion
Hic
Appleby Hundred
Falconnet
Palconnet
Ireton
Enlyn Parquarson
Wilfe
Gilbert Stair
Camden
Charlotte
Margery
Hather Matthieu
Tybee
Parquarwon
Lord Cornwallis
Doughty Colone
Blair's Mill
Court House Green
Tarleton
Hanger
Court House
Charles
Irvaneis Locky
Joe Graham
Cornwallis
Horatio Gates
Ferguson
Helb
Colonel Davie
Captain Ireton
Thad
Major Ferguson
Hazleton
Charlotta
Fergulson
Mina
Davie
Coronel
Ji Tam
Mar- Sery
Icing
Charles Cornwallis
Prices of African wildlife and rare rhino auctions
The piece explains how market prices for wild animals vary with demand and costs. It cites Nairobi and Fort Florence delivery as key factors, listing prices for baby rhinoceros, giraffe, hippo, eland, elephant, and leopard, plus high auction values for gorilla and white rhino.
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Frye
Nairobi
Fort Florence
Elands
Hampton's Magazine
Stage jokes and new life in musical comedy
In the Louisville Courier Journal exchange, the critic notes that old newspaper jokes resurface on stage and appear fresh within the realm of musical comedy, highlighting a revival of familiar bits in contemporary performance.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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Oween-Merrill Com
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Mea
Pompey
Queensborough
Trey
Jennifer
Ephraim Yeates
Francis Lynde Copyrigutina
Dowen-Merrill Company
Effie
Margie
Ioffe
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