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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1898
Page
6
An estimate traces war costs across millennia. It cites 1.2 billion sacrificed since ancient times, a European death toll of 2.5 million in half this century, and a total cost of about 3.6 trillion dollars over 3,000 years. Europe’s military spending runs at 850 per second, or around 84 million per day.
An elderly colored deacon in the Atlanta Constitution recounts a Thanksgiving anecdote about George Washington. He claims Washington had a right hand man who survived a war claim to fame on Kenesaw Mountain. The tale ends with Washington telling John to look in his breeches pocket for a dollar.
A Harvard professor’s friend recalls Louis Agassiz visiting German naturalist Lorenz Oken. Oken shows guests through his lab and a $7000 zoological library, then the awkward dinner hour reveals his pride and tension in hosting a renowned scientist.
A terse exchange reveals a household’s strict frugality as they note three meat days and four potato days per week. The visitor’s arrival on a potato day underscores the strain of limited pecuniary means and restrained luxuries.
An irascible hotel guest orders a dinner and insists on more tea than ice. The waiter returns with a dark, thick mix claiming it is tea. The guest calls it muddy and asks for better tea while the waiter explains the portion is larger than standard plus a twenty cent charge.
A collage of antiquated anecdotes about mispronounced or misread names and notable figures. Highlights include a minister Mr Ottswell Wood and his son Mr John Wood, a witty courtroom exchange on spelling, cadet lore about Admiral Wood, a music master joke from Le Figaro, a painter’s commission tale, and a Boston Transcript note about a $40,000 Revolutionary War era loan signed by Washington. The Outlook is advertised at 25 cents for three months.
The Berkshire in Pinehurst North Carolina offers cottages with modern health comforts including running spring water lath rooms steam heat open fires and electric lights. Nearby golf links tennis croquet grounds and horse riding are available with easy rail connections from New York via Penn RR and Seaboard Air Line to electric cars at Southern Pines. W B Peck manager proprietor of Mt Everett House South Egremont Mass.
STORE DEPT A Drugs and Proprietary Medicines B Dry Goods and Notions Gents Furnishings Hats Caps Boots Shoes Rubber Goods Fancy Heavy Groceries Fresh Meats in Cold Storage G Hardware stoves Tinware H Crockery and Glassware J Furniture K Electric Supplies L Plumbing Supplies M Grain Hay and Feed Stuffs Nalnts Oils and Varnishes O Silverware Souvenirs Toys Full lines of Fancy and Heavy Groceries Dry Goods and Shoes complete stock bought in Northern markets Meat and Fish Market Poultry Game Fish Oysters and Meats in stock Western Meats in cold storage Hats Caps Gents Furnishings latest styles Stationery full line printed and plain in this department
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