Escape to Charlotte The Night of Margery’s Cold Welcome
Captain Ireton, in a borrowed red coat, reaches Charlotte seeking aid from Colonel Davie’s network. Detained by ambush, he gathers news of the war and pulls off a risky ruse to enter Cornwallis’s area. Margery unexpectedly confronts him at her father’s house, setting up a cliffhanger for the next week.
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Margery
Tree
Abe
Richard Jennifer
Trave
Jon
Maboro
Tarleton
Jock
Roger
Ireton
Ron
Appleby Hun
Daviev
Pompey
Ventoon
Firat
Mm Davie
Queensborough
Jennifer
Ephraim Yeates
Davie
Salisbury
Hillsborough
Cornwallis
Charlotte
Blair's Mill
Court House
Hanger
Charles
Francis Locke
Joe Graham
Horatio Gates
Ferguson
Colonel Davie
Major Ferguson
Appleby Hundred
Davies
Court House Green
Oddis de
A Hazardous Plan Tied to a Seized Portmanteau
A cautious captain weighs the odds of a risky escape aided by a lost portmanteau. If the bag survives capture and reaches Mr. Pettigrew in Charlotte, the mission gains momentum. An ally in New Berne, with a forwarding plan, helps secure shelter and crucial clues.
Stimulants and Nerves in a Modern Life Debate
Collier's Weekly discusses the army canteen and temperance as a national issue while noting Italian statistics linking parental stimulant use to child nervous disorders. The piece questions whether stimulants like coffee tea liquor tobacco are broadly harmful, and whether modern life raises nervous disease rates or merely reveals them.
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Collier's Weekly
Demosthenes
Claims She Is a Princess From India in Claim to $500000 Fortune
Mrs. Joseph Holdobler of Wakefield Nebraska claims to be Motl Pearl princess of Gujel Singh and seeks a half million dollars held in the Bank of England. She says pearls sewn into her waist prove her royal birth and has traveled with her husband to Washington and London before being sent to Dunning asylum amid doctors affidavits on her sanity.
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Joseph Holdobler
Bank of England
Wakefield
Neb
Motl Pearl
House of Gujelt-Singh
India
Holdobler
Gujel Singh
Josephine
Anna Holdobler
Berlin
Germany
Washington
Rampur
Rajputana
Moti Pearl
Vasco da Gama
Africa
Louise Mackrodt
Little Moth Pearl
Gajek Singh
Louise
Moll Pearl
Calcutta
Trem
Seve
Bombay
Mott Pearl
Hamburg
Moti
Anna Leongardt
Gujelt Singh
London
France
Joseph ‘Oldobler
America
Chicago
Dunning
Cavalry Horse Major Delivers Storming March on Brooklyn
A World newspaper tale follows Major, a Sixth U S cavalry veteran, as a bugle calls a parade in Whitehall Street. He charges a wagon loaded with mutton chops for Louis Feinberg of Brooklyn, scattering an Indian bowler, Pietro the peanut man, and a bootblack in a comical accept of army cadence.
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New York World
Louis Feinberg
Third Avenue
Brooklyn
H. S
Pietro
Peanut
Tony
Feinberg
Sixth
United States Cavalry
Governor's Island
Whitehall Street
Major
Staten Island
Peanuts
Leinberg
Hamilton Ferry
Domino
Odd Indiana names and a poseur at a society reception
Dialogues reveal Ananias Baker’s biblical naming tale and a local secret order’s harsh initiation called the General Miles Degree. A southern statesman endures a cultured lady's French banter and is mockingly labeled an attitude dinizer by an army officer.
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General Miles
So-anad-So
Crooked remark sparks district chatter in Indiana
Representative Jared Landis recalls a man in his district who objected to a lighthearted insult about him. Landis notes the man’s long memory began after a single innocent remark about his crookedness.
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Jared Landis
Indiana
Landis
Haste and Lobbyist Talk on Treasury Funds
A congressman warns against attempting new appropriations while noting a near empty national treasury. A lobbyist presses to secure a share of limited funds before they are gone, seeking favor for district projects.
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National Treasury
Congress
Stresim
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Francie Lynde
England
Nicholson
Delhi
Miss Anna
Miss Holdobler
Wat
Ananias Baker
Beveridge
Ananias
Mr. Baker
Saul
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