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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1898
Page
3
The Pinehurst Casino is described as a tasteful building designed for residents convenience. The Ladies Parlor and Cafe occupy the lower floor while the second floor houses a Reading Room with daily papers and popular periodicals, a Billiard Room, Smoking Room, and Bath Rooms.
The Magnolia operates under the same management as last winter with Mr J D J Pottle owner of The Highland House Jefferson Highlands XN H. He brings over twenty years of experience to run a modern house with steam heat electric lights running water laths rooms and perfect sanitary arrangements. Northern cooks prepare first class meals and the table is well supplied and neatly served. For further information address.
Advertisement for vegetable sponges measuring 15 to 18 inches, sold postpaid at 10 rents each. Sponges available prepared or in shell with seeds inside. Send a postal card with your address and a free sample copy of THE OvTrook will be mailed to friends.
The article surveys common superstitions among educated and colored communities, noting fears about Friday work starts, hair knots aiding growth, and touching a killed chicken to avert chicken pox. It describes snakes with mythical features, lizards causing thunder, and spirits haunting at night, observed during a Pinehurst sojourn, ending with a rat-cats mystery being explained by a coincidental dress brush and cat movement.
A farmer, troubled by rats despite two cats, traps two rats with steel devices. He brings cats and traps to the kitchen to test the cats catching a rat, but when he opens the traps the rats escape before he can intervene. The tale highlights unlikely animal alliances and surprising outcomes.
A Roaring Springs man tells of an Irish mill worker nicknamed Mike who, while painting engines green, slips and covers himself from head to foot. He reportedly suffers a green paint hemorrhage as coworkers laugh at the bizarre accident in The Paper Mill.
Jacksonville resident C C Robertson slapped Major Pilcher of the United States Army at the Windsor Hotel. The Major, after dodging a thrown cuspidor, was struck with a cane as onlookers separated them. Robertson was arrested on assault and battery and the case was postponed until Thursday when Major Pilcher returns from Savannah.
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