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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1898
Page
2
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from a traveler in a hot country to a Kansas hotel clerk. Jokes include a bath tub mix up, a remark about the Bank of England, a cyclone belt town, and a famous punchline about man and woman.
Reflections on moral firmness from Lowell and Hale on genuine belief. Edward Everett Hale’s Harvard sermon emphasizes actions over rhetoric and warns students to observe their superiors closely, noting even bootblacks may be influential. Rev Robert Collyer disavows the earned title of Doctor of Divinity and explains the change in how initials followed his name.
The backwoods school is a low cabin measuring eighteen by twenty two feet with a six foot high chestnut log walls puncheon floor locust pillars and a stone chimney. It hosts twenty six children with Webster’s blue black as the textbook and a scene of wild forest and prairie-like realia rather than modern desks.
A sharp witted young woman stops a bare-legged boy carrying a birds nest and eggs. She scolds him for stealing from the nest, but the boy retorts that the mother bird is on her hat. The anecdote appears in the Cape Alan Advertizer.
An exchange reports a man committed death by his own action while suffering under a mental apparition, indicating a self-inflicted death connected to mental distress.
The Ladies Parlor and Cafe occupy the lower floor while the second floor features a Reading Room with daily papers and popular periodicals, plus a Billiard Room, Smoking Room and Bath Rooms.
A man claiming perfection visited Moody and boasted of sinless years. Moody gently asked if he ever sinned or did wrong. The man replied no. Moody replied he must verify with the wife before being convinced.
A New York Ledger item notes a farmer’s quip about working in the wheat fields facing many financial bulls and bears. The brief exchange highlights market tensions in the crop trade and the humor of rural finance under frontier conditions.
A London curate recently received a curious response from a parishioner after a health inquiry. The parishioner described fluctuating feelings saying sometimes he feels anyhow and sometimes nohow, and at times feels as stiff as a himmedge.
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