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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1898
Page
7
A reflective poem urges patience with the living after death and cautions against hasty praise or harsh judgment. It emphasizes restraint in memory and the value of gentleness when death ends earthly strife. The speaker and a friend are addressed, urging forgiveness and mercy.
Aberdeen residents note Mrs TL Powell’s recovery and await Aberdeen Lumber Co decision on reopening. A Pinehurst hunting event excites youths while visitors from New York tour Aberdeen. A telegraph delay after a Swar thy inquiry, forest fires delaying the Aberdeen and Asheboro train, and repairs after poles burned near West End. Pinehurst Outing fosters local acquaintances. hopes rise for better railroad timetable.
Southern Pines brief notes mention Mr. Emery and wife visiting Mrs. O Drew at the Palmetto in Pinehurst. Readers urged to see a first class dentist ad in the Outlook. Tufts displayed thoughtfulness by providing a special car for the Thursday evening dramatic entertainment.
Couch of Ovone tended burned property and nearby holdings as forest fires raged. A new Congregational church is slated for March dedication with Gen. Carrington promising a dedication poem and Pinehurst residents set to participate. A wartime tale recalls a surgeon joke about an amputated limb and a butcher finishing a house.
A fragment shows a German teetotaler near a tavern asking about taking something. His friend replies that donuts wouldn’t fix it and suggests they take a walk. The dialogue reflects temperance era slang and humor.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt has two farmers debating a son's college education. The father mocks Latin and Greek study as impractical while praising a recent letter mentioning fencing lessons as part of the curriculum.
In a Illinois circus a woman named Yvonne Lily rushed the ring and hugged the clown claiming she had just become his Irisband. Spectators called it the first original joke seen in the ring in over a quarter century.
A pupil writes the difference between a biped and a quadruped as two legs. The line states that a biped has two legs and a quadruped has four, hence the difference is two legs.
A Springhill Republican note describes a local store clerk who, while restocking, had two baskets left on the counter as a woman browsed. The woman claimed she only wanted to look for a friend, and the clerk offered to retrieve any baskets still on the shelf for her inspection.
The best teacher of manners is society and the great book of etiquette. Observe those with exemplary conduct to imitate them and avoid errors. The average American girl quickly recognizes mistakes and seldom repeats them, being kind at heart with quick wit, traits that mold her into a gentlewoman.
The piece notes Holland’s historic and current lead in linen, with flax grown in bright Low Countries. It details a gendered industry, with women dominating harvesting, processing, and weaving, and men taking lead in damask and designs. It describes Dutch marriage linen customs, early start to provisioning, and a typical wedding outfit stock for brides. Philadelphia.
A government official with office in a major building prides himself on linguistic authority. At supper his son challenges him on the pronunciation of Newone, sparking a dispute over whether the Indian name should be pronounced Ne-wo-ny or another way.
A boy mocks the pronunciation of a name with a loud laugh, provoking offense from a parent offended by the blunt taunt. The dispute escalates as the boy’s remark leads to a blow that nearly harms the father.
Howard Sill, head draftsman at a local architectural firm, owns about 2500 book plates spanning American, English, French and Spanish origins. The collection features Jacobean, Chippendale, Wreath and Ribbon styles, works by Dorkins, Johnson, the Mavericks, Nathaniel Hurd, and six plates engraved by Paul Revere. It includes colonial plates of Byrd, Washington, Randolph, Carroll and Chase, among others, plus modern engravings by Hopson and Spenceley.
A compilation of humorous quotes about Congress and politics from the Boston Herald, New York Journal, Philadelphia Record, and Washington Post. The lines joke about short sessions, adjournments, office pursuits, Hawaii, executive sessions, and armor plate plants.
A dated collage describes Chemin de Fer de l Ouest built by English engineers, a Grand Trunk rule barring intoxicated workers, Russian Poland trains requiring palace police permission to depart, elephants on Indian railways paying by smile, and baggage cars with compartments for pets.
A list of simple treatments from Good Housekeeping including powdered sulphur for sore mouth painting burns with colorless pine extract tincture of myrrh for sore throats chilblains treated with cantharides soap liniment and mustard plasters. The tips emphasize preparation and safe skin care after application.
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