Pinehurst Colony Promises Luxury Golf and Modern Comforts
The article extols Pinehurst as a premier fall winter and spring resort created by James W. Tufts. It highlights three six thousand yard eighteen hole courses plus a nine hole course, a fireproof clubhouse, and year round amenities. It notes four international competitions from January to April, extensive hotel options, shooting preserves, a full village infrastructure, and transport links from New York. It also mentions Overhills as another golf site and adds local social notes including Mr. Manning's landscaping and John McQueen’s illness recovery.
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Pinehurst
Southern Good Roads
Carolina
South
Holly Inn
Berkshire
Harvard
Pine Crest Inn
Lexington
New York
Pullmans
Seaboard Air Line
Boston
Little River
Overhills
Donald Ross
Flora Macdonald
B. Chapin
Manning
Swope
Hartnett County
Ham
Joshua
John McQueen
Moore County
Mrs. Edgars Victory at Pinehurst Shooting Contest
Annie Oakley hosts a daily ladies rifle event at the Pinehurst Gun Club with a weekly trophy for the best score. Over twenty five women entered the Monday start week, and Mrs. L. B. Edgar of Wilmington, Delaware shot 140 of 150 to win. She had no prior gun experience before two weeks of coaching by Oakley, a Du Pont Powder Works power’s wife observation.
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Annie Oakley
Pinehurst
L. B. Edgar
Wilmington
Delaware
Edgar
Dupont
Word From the Soldiers on Pinehurst Contingent
The report notes movements of the Pinehurst contingent in the big game. Some have returned home in civilian clothes, with regalia kept for evening wear. Lieutenant Trumbull Dana is seen back pruning his orchard as if the front were distant. Julian Bishop is nearing muster out and plans rapid return to the Sand.
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Pinehurst
Mufti
Carolina Beacon
Trumbull Dana
Julian Bishop
Letters From War Fronts At Pinehurst Display
A clipping recalls Charlie Mason and other Pinehurst locals in Europe during WWI. Letters describe engineers in the Massachusetts unit laying barbed wire before advancing troops, Loring’s flying service ending with the armistice, and Earl Knight in France writing from a camp near Le Havre. Glen Rivers joins the writer’s company, and Major Underwood visits Pinehurst during leave, praising the school pageant and Sandhill Fair displays.
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Charlie Mason
Massachusetts Engineers
Hell
Heaven
Hoboken
Chas. G. Loring
Dave Knight
Earl
Pinehurst
France
Liverpool
Winchester
Frank C. Page
English Channel
le Havre
Glen Rivers
Tell C. Bethune
Jim Bradshaw
118Th Engineers
Underwood
Famous Photographic Company
United States Army
Merrow
Sandhill
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Pinehurst, N. C
Mass
H Magers
RE Wieren
Mrs. Edgar
Oakley
Shannon and Brown