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Merchant Dream Ends With Heaven Or Hell Parable
An old merchant tells a Christmas Eve dream in which an angel lifts him toward glory but halts at a vision of hell where debtors burn for unpaid sums. The tale shifts to a local news item: editor William C. Saunders of the Independent at Elizabeth City NC is sentenced to six months hard labor for criminal libel. he plans to appeal.
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Glory’s Gate
Hades
Hell
William C. Saunders
The
Independent
Elizabeth City
N. C
Chird Labor
E. F. Aydiette
Awyer
United States
Saunders
St. Matthews Sharch
AR. Becky
Dallas
N.C
Beck
J. D. Mauney
St. Andrews St. Stevens
Mt. Olive
Hickory
Rocky Mount
N. M. Cordell
Cordell
Katie Smith
Bg.flowers
Long
Statesville
Mecklenburg Camp
Confederate Veterans of
Charlotte
Seaboard
Chattanooga
Tenn
North Carolina
Fane Sith 1813, Inc
Conduster
Tos Pullman
Atlanta
James Ker Jr
Peterson
Parker House
Bright