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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1898
Page
7
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a comic tale of a man called Gritty who ends his engagement after his fiancée, noted for superstition, believes Friday the 13th and a series of unlucky signs doom the match. He explains seven prior meetings with the father and a ring on installments, yet superstition ruins the romance.
A Calcutta correspondent cites an eye witness account of a tiger captured during a royal hunt in a Rajpoet state. The animal was maimed by trapped feet, claw removal, tooth breaking, and muzzling before being released to be hunted by dogs and shot after maiming. The report, cited by London Sketch, condemns the inhumane acts by royalty.
A village near Cleveland laid a good man to rest in a hilltop churchyard. After the funeral, relatives and the pastor returned to the family home for dinner and social conversation in the best room, continuing to reflect on the day’s solemn event.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt features a pastor’s solemn remark about a departed brother’s long journey and a cousin’s witty, decisive comment on travel as an indicator. The exchange captures a quiet, humorous close to a funeral moment amid dialogue about life’s path.
An applicant seeks influence for a job in a husband’s private office. He notes a dangerous rival, a bewitched, pretty woman. The calm Madam dismisses interference and promises to decide tomorrow. Strand Magazine.
A Kentucky fisherman quote portrays Colonel Stilwell as a tender hearted man who dislikes sport except fishing. He calls himself a benefactor and humanitarian for sparing creatures from eternal watch, per a Washington Star excerpt.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes that Spanish and French women of the upper class are skilled with the sword. They study fence as carefully as their brothers, with many schools teaching young women to fence and even handle the broadsword.
A Notes and Queries excerpt recalls a Johnson anecdote about a man who loved muffins but feared indigestion. To avoid stomach trouble he planned suicide, ate three muffins for breakfast, and then shot himself with a loaded pistol. The tale parallels a Garrick death dispute over Hackman in Boswell and invites Dickensian comparison.
A whimsical exchange contrasts boasting imitators as Gau lois recalls a man who can mimic bird sounds so accurately birds circle his garden. The reply claims a rooster imitator can spur sunrise, preserving an old proverb-like humor.
The New York Tribune notes Litera ture’s Italian correspondent arguing D Annunzio’s power as an artist despite putrid sensuality. It questions whether morbid art deserves debate and asserts he will never become a classic, mocking those who insist otherwise.
Laura M. F. Lake writes in The Ladies' Home Journal about Florence Morse Kingsley, novelist and clergyman's wife living on Staten Island. Her study overlooks the ocean and neighboring state as she balances writing with wife, mother duties, teaching poor girls to sew, and social duties. She relies on her husband for help with Greek and Latin.
A collection of tersely worded maxims and wry lines about school freshmen policing tone, dance music, station lodging, time and mortality, royalty, skating on thin ice, poetry effort, cheap talk, and stepping into fortune. The phrases are attributed to Chicago News.
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