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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1898
Page
7
A poetic reminiscence by WM Valentine of Pinehurst Massachusetts, recalling the Holly Casino and strolls, deer park, and rustic life. The piece contrasts verdant forests before destruction with mournful echoes of vanished grandeur, weaving memories of lodging at the Inn, local poverty, and nightly song as winter closes on remembered Springfield scenes from December 1897.
A collection of humorous snippets and quips on love work and daily life drawn from various periodicals. Witty exchanges about age money and gender reveal playful social observations and mock wisdom in concise phrasing.
A clipped selection of witty remarks and puns from newspapers including London Tid Bits Chicago Post Mortem Life and Philadelphia Record. The quips range from sermon recaps to a job interview pun about being fired with enthusiasm and a nurse joke at a hysspital.
A Detroit Journal quote notes that plain grub may yield beauty, mentioning a pretty girl who eats pork and beans three times daily as a colorful aside within a casual observation about appetite and transformation.
A monkey in Lincoln Park snatches eyeglasses from spectators, hides them in a pouch, and theatrically taunts owners. The creature, nicknamed Jocko Monk, regurgitates or displays the glasses to the crowd before returning them, leaving the losers frustrated and the monkey unfazed as keepers intervene.
The Pall Mall Gazette's note on the Canary Islands praises their cleanliness and climate while contrasting Roman baths with modern habit. It describes Tenerife Grand Canary Las Palmas and Orotava, noting dry, fresh air, palm groves, and the pervasive clean dust that keeps residents remarkably tidy.
An excerpt notes a Pascombe woman pressuring her husband to profess love before onlookers, remarking it inflicts exasperation on him and is described as an awful tactic. The dialogue reflects social tensions and public display within a domestic scene.
The Naples churches face a mouse problem forcing pastors to keep cats within sanctuaries. Such scenes resemble comic theater moments when a cat crosses a stage, a situation Dr. Johnson muses upon about hope and happiness, noting hope can be deluded yet remains preferable to its extinction.
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