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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1897
Page
3
The tasteful Pinehurst building provides for residents with a Ladies Parlor and Cafe on the lower floor and a second floor Reading Room featuring daily papers and popular periodicals, plus a Billiard Room Smoking Room Baths and Barber Shop.
Mrs. Diary B. Willard arrives from Berlin as the Union Signal’s first editor and plans a return to Germany. Miss Caroline Dodge, a Smith and Columbia Law graduate, is admitted to practice in Iowa and federal courts. Sister Isidore Kenny retires after 83 years as St. Vincent hospital superior. Mrs. KB. M.J. Cooley expands Cripple Creek reading room with city funding. Miss Mary F. Winston, new mathematics chair at Kansas Agricultural College, holds Wisconsin and Gottingen degrees. Mrs. Mary L. Page, widow of Elder D. D. Page, is called as pastor at Concord NH church after licensure. Miss Hocart, daughter of a Wesleyan minister in Paris, wins $300 Nobel-like prize for noble living. Mrs. Emily Parker of New Rochelle is committed to asylum. a bead bundle worth 40,000 drops from her skirt during transfer.
A New York Sunday World item notes a clash over modesty following a bathing suit, questioning how objections to bloomers arise after a revealing outfit. The piece signals social tensions around dress and propriety in the era.
A discussion of how ultra thin soap film can be only a few millionths of an inch thick and how colors arise from light interference. It explains varying thickness, color distribution, and the role of reflection and refraction, citing the explanation by Jacob F. Bucher in St Nicholas.
A Strand Magazine anecdote presents Jilkins, a busy factotum for an artist, as he quips about being the artist’s model for old men. A visitor notes the work, and Jilkins defends his role by mocking the master’s idleness and the artist’s reliance on him.
The Curtis Publishing Company announces The Ladies' Home Journal for 1898 will be more attractive and useful with strengthened literary features. It will include letters from a cabinet member's wife, biographies of McKinley and others in new anecdotes, contributions from Rev John Watson and Edward Bok, fiction by notable authors, and extensive home plans and needlework features. Ten cents per copy, one dollar per year.
A witty Chicago News item notes an editor’s wife claiming to have seen a bonnet poem downtown, and the editor politely declines the unsolicited verse, preserving the paper’s decorum. The playful exchange reflects local press culture and urban quirks.
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