Pinehurst recalled as ideal winter retreat for rest and health
Rev J W Clancy recalls Pinehurst as a New England village in the South offering rest and recuperation. He details Holly Inn, golf, tennis, indoor reading, village hall sermons, concerts, lectures, amateur dramatics, and a Saturday night shop. He praises hosts, friendly residents, and urges friends to visit for health and refreshment.
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Pinehurst
Southland
New England
Holly Inn
Washington
New York
Boston
Cheap Cotton Forces Texas Tenants to Desert Crops
Central Texas belt tenant farmers abandon mature cotton as wages beat own yields. Landlords hire South Texas negro labor to pick crops. picking costs rise from 34 to 50 cents per 100 pounds. Arkansas reports similar distress as 4 cent cotton yields under 8 dollars per acre gross, with rent and picker costs draining profits. Mecon Telegraph notes wages below seven cents per pound ended cotton’s profitability.
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Texas
Arkansas
Princeton Clairvoyant Spillman Aids Exam Prep
In Princeton a drigiman named Spillman is believed by students to possess second sight. They pay him for exam-finding predictions, and eight of ten problems he picked were on the gentlemens’ papers before rector exams. When his forecasts hit, he gains fame. when not, no mention is made. There are anecdotes of Stilson speaking to himself.
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Princeton
Drigiman
Spillman
Berkshire hillside tavern offers modern comforts near golf links
The Berkshire with its cottages sits in the new town of Tinchuret offering running spring water, bathrooms, steam heat, electric lights, and open fires. Nearby sixty acres of golf links, croquet grounds, and courts. horses available for riding and driving. electric cars from New York to Minehurst via Penn RR and Seaboard Air Line. W B K Peck, Mt Everett House proprietor in South Egremont, Miss.
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Berkshire
Tinchuret
Fornia
New York
Aix Nille
W. BK. Peck
Mt. Everett House
Berkshire Hills
South Egremont
Miss
Local Department Store Ad Beats The Big Competition
The department store advertises departments for Drugs and Proprietary Medicines, Groceries, Dry Goods and Shoes, Gents Furnishings, Boots and Rubber Goods, Hardware and Tinware, Furniture, Paints and Oils, Silverware and Toys. It highlights a meat and fish market, cold storage Western Meats, stationery, and full lines of groceries and dry goods from Northern markets.
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Cola Star
The Pine Grove House NFU opens with home com
The Pine Grove House NFU opens with home comfort focus as a local facility for residents. Details on services, dates, and affiliations remain limited in the fragment, but the item suggests a community facility initiative tied to the NFU.
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J. W. Clancy
Jupson V. Clancy
West McEprorp
MaAss
Wicks
Stilson
Hicks
the Berkshire
Pinehurst, N. C
Th Crocker
Pine Grove
Nfu
Engghond
Pinkuurst
N. C
Stone House Farm
Ing, Mass
Price
Hlouse
United States
Canada
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