Pleasant reading soirée at the Cedars hosts gift readers
Mrs S B Perry invited guests to a Cedars parlor evening where Mrs Spense and Mr Franklin Nervey performed readings. Hevey offered poetry selections including Tiawatha's Wooing and The Tides of Lincolnshire. Spense charmed with negro dialect pieces and other readings. Guests from the hotel attended and praise was given to the entertainers for a delightful program.
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the Cedars
S. .B. Perry
Spense
Franklin
St. Peter At the Gate
David Copperfield
Bedell
Fire destroys Central House in Southern Pines
The Central House on Bennett street in Southern Pines burned entirely on a Tuesday morning. Guests escaped with little time, some losses to valuables. The blaze, believed to have started around 6 30 in a second floor chamber from a kerosene lamp near a curtain, spread rapidly to the roof, consuming the pitch pine structure.
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Bennett Street
Fire wipes out Central House in Burlington town
Fire destroyed the Central House owned by D. W. Lowell heirs with Lorenzo Burnham as executor. Edwin leased the building for the season and occupied it with guests. A small cottage nearby burned while several buildings were saved by citizen efforts. Loss valued at about $6,000, largely insured. townspeople call it a historic first as no dwelling had burned since town founding.
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D. W. Lowell
Lorenzo Burnham
Burlington
Edwin
Fireproof Wood From a Whaling Boat
An old sea captain describes a white Norwegian deal fragment from his boat’s gunwale that survived a gas flame unburned. He recalls whaling off the Cape of Good Hope, a harpooned whale, a sinking wreck, and recovery of the rope and boat fragment as proof of natural pressure hardening the wood.
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Too
South Seas
Cape of Good Hope
Helimore Herald
Wit and anecdotes of Choate in diplomatic whispers
The piece recounts humorous recollections linked to Joseph H. Choate, the St. James ambassador designate. It features a dinner table quip about preferring to be Mrs. Choate's second husband and a comic office encounter where Choate nonchalantly connects a caller to Wilberforce, reflecting his wit and social cleverness.
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Joseph HT. Choate
St. James
Mrs. Choate
Choate
Miun
Wilberforce
Wilberforce & Jones
Choute
Bishop Wilberforce
Chialers
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Pinehurst Casino
Pinehurst
the Casino Cafe
New England
Table Board
A. E. Upham
Pinehurst, N. C
Munella
D. L. Pottle
Highland House
Jefferson Mwighlands
N. TH
Elass Northern
J. L. Pottle
Moore County
North Carolina
Mee
J. Milton Robinson
Make
North
Reading, Mass
The
Pinehurst Nurseries
Sarah D. Gilbert
New York City
Europe
Southern Pines
Chonate
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