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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
6
Fragmentary timetable shows trains between Aberdeen and Juniper with times around morning to noon. Mentions Leavitts, Montrose, Dundarrach, Arabia, Endon Branch, and Train No. 23 with planned departures and arrivals.
He returns home with a packet of placards reading For Show or Use Phere. He declares he will give them to his companion to place on sofa pillows around the house, prompting curiosity about the plan.
A Liverpool firm, pleased that an employee was called to the reserves, offered to pay half his wages to his wife during his absence. At month’s end the wife collected the money. she challenged the sum, prompting the partner to insist, stating that four pounds is exactly half. She retorts that this isn’t what she believes, noting years of her husband saying he earned only sixteen shillings in total, and that if the Boers don’t kill him she will.
A Washington Star quip features Colonel Stillwell defending jokes about Kentucky. He frames the conundrum as humor and explains the supposed difference between Massachusetts and Kentucky as boots and shoes versus shoots and booze. He adds he is glad to have thought of it first to avoid consequences if others had coined the remark.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes a man faced with two dinner invites. One from a woman he fears to offend, the other from a host who promises the best feed, highlighting social tension over etiquette and appetite.
A full service department store advertises numerous departments including Drugs and Proprietary Medicines, Dry Goods, Gents Furnishings, Groceries, Fresh Meats, Hardware, Stoves, and Tinware. It highlights northern-sourced stock, full dry goods and shoe departments, and a complete Meat and Fish Market plus a stationery lineup.
A Detroit Free Press item notes a broker being asked if errand boys may sleep in the office, answered only during the daytime. In a separate vignette, Dr. Wines, a boys’ school principal, cane-hits a pupil who then posts a mocking message on his door reading Wines and other lickers, provoking laughter.
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