Berkshire Pinehurst Hotel Offers Modern Comforts and Golf
The Berkshire at Pinehurst Cottages enjoys modern conveniences including running spring water, bathrooms, steam heat, electric lights and open fires. Nearby are sixty acres of golf links, tennis courts, croquet grounds, and horse rentals. Electric cars from New York routes transfer travelers to Pinehurst six miles away. W B Peck, manager.
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Berkshire
Pinehurst
New York
Penn
R. A
Seaboard Air Line
Southern Pines
W. B. Peck
Mt. Everett House
Berkshire Hills
South Egremont
Mays
Department Store Ad Lists Wide Range Of Goods And Services
An extensive department store notice outlines offerings across sections including drugs groceries dry goods clothing furniture hardware and plumbing supplies along with meat seafood poultry and cold storage facilities. It notes stock sourced from Northern markets and emphasizes quality and full lines across departments and services.
Tit For Tat. Williams and Giffard in a Shrewsbury election row
Montagu Williams recounts in Leaves of a Life a breakfast heated clash with Sir Hardinge Giffard now Lord Halsbury during a Shrewsbury election petition. Williams smoking provokes a firm, punctual defense of routine. a breakfast fire and a late appearance lead to a playful exchange and a courtroom march.
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Montagu Williams
Hardinge Giffard
Lord Halsbury
Shrewsbury
Williams
Hardinge
Gifford
St. James Gazette
After Dinner Oratory And The Postprandial Circuit
A critique of after dinner speaking notes how forensic oratory fades before the era of televised and polished postdinner addresses. It calls the speakers a distinct professional class, likening them to clergy or actors, with public appetite for “talking” after meals and the ritual of the dining room.
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Kenelm
Naval Notes on Ironclads and Peaceful Relations
The New York World suggests governments insure their ironclads against accidents. The Atlanta Constitution notes the navy was nearly in dry docks before the disturbance. The idea that an efficient navy best preserves peaceful foreign relations remains unchallenged.
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New York World
Atlanta Constitution
Railways and trains in Europe and Britain shift plans
London sees 2200 trains daily while Lake Shore and New York Central plan consolidation. Spanish timetables show vague departures. Switzerland votes to become a railroads state. Germany expands track work on Westphalia and Rhine lines with Berlin as a future target.
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London
Lake Shore
New York Central
Switzerland
Legislative Council
Germany
Westphalia
Rhine Provines
Berlin
Origin of Graham Bread and its Diet Trace
The 1882 figure Sylvester Graham preached vegetarianism as a cure for intemperance and condemned tea coffee butter and salt. He promoted unbolted flour bread, spawning Graham flour and boarding houses. Horace Greeley’s wife met him there, and Graham died at 56.
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Sylvester Graham
Graham
Horace Greeley
Atchison Globe
Lord George Bentinck Confronts Debtor Over Dinner Bill
A San Francisco Argonaut recounts Lord George Bentinck rebuking a known defaulter at his club. When the waiter brought the bill the lord ordered it to him and declared that a man who takes such expensive dinners should pay his debts of honor.
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George Bentinck
Lord George
Ri Fere
Bhonor
San Francisco
Argonaut
Easily Pleased Yes and Herbert Marriage Suggestion
A young woman says Tebali may marry Herbert, while Miss Cayenne notes he may be easy to please. The exchange highlights the man’s self satisfaction as a reason for a smooth marriage.
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Tebali
Herbert
Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Tennyson’s Revenge Lunch at a Large Luncheon
Chicago News recounts a Victorian anecdote in which a lion hunting lady pesters Alfred Lord Tennyson to lunch with a large party. He grants the invitation but remains silent, remarking only that he likes his mutton cut in chunks.
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Tennyson
Chicago News
Bonaparte Gold Plate Placed In Ajaccio Museum
A gold plate pawned by Charles Bonaparte to fund his son Napoleon Bonaparte’s travel to the military school at Brienne has been placed in Ajaccio town museum preserving a family legacy.
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Charles Bonaparte
Napoleon
Brienne
Ajaccio
Macaroni Etymology From Greek Diction Is Examined
The term macaroni derives from a Greek root meaning the blessed dead, reflecting an ancient feast-day custom of serving pasta at funerary gatherings.
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Pinehurst, N. C
New England
Pine Grove
Pineuurst
N. C
A. Flint
Stone House Farm
Ing, Mass
United States
Canada
Naval Notes
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