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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1900
Page
7
A dealer cites American inventions improving golf clubs, noting one piece designs, socket and fork drivers, drop forged irons, and better shaft fitting. The article also reflects on Christmas unity, emancipation, and Christian brotherhood across race and class in the South during the season.
A Christmas sermon from a visiting preacher in Pinehurst expresses humility as he abandons secular concerns to join guests in celebrating the birth of Christ. He urges sympathetic communication among strangers, invoking the goodwill proclaimed nineteen hundred years ago and the idea that Christ unites people beyond barriers.
The preacher reflects on shared blessings and urges Christmas generosity beyond home. In Pinehurst and among transient guests, he praises hospitality provided by one man and urges renewed love for friends, strangers, and all creation, with gratitude to God as the best gift.
The article notes George Washington not in a fixed position on letters, with aging mail practices since 1780, Maine to Virginia routes, bi weekly winter and tri weekly summer service, and the 25 cent postage. It mentions Rowland Hill introducing stamps in England in 1840s and the absence of a postmaster general until 1829. It highlights the vast spread of portraits via a modern postal system.
A charitable clergyman recalls weeks of free hospitality from strangers who stayed to save hotel costs. A visiting stranger from Akron arrived unannounced, seeking sermons and companionship, while another guest from his hometown demanded constant attention, leaving him to bid farewell with a thinly masked complaint.
The text traces writing instruments from the quill to steel pens. It notes costs for mail and handwriting tools, mentions a 1819 shift to steel pens from England, and recalls famous figures learning to write with improvised implements. It contrasts gold pens in Europe with common Dutch quills.
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