Pinehurst Casino Offers Comfort for Residents
The building at Pinehurst serves residents with a Ladies Parlor and Cafe on the lower floor while the second floor houses a Reading Room with Daily Papers and popular periodicals, a Billiard Room, Smoking Room, Bath Rooms, and Barber Shop.
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Pinehurst
JOKERS AND JINGLERS Soliloquy on Oyster Light
Bertha Washburn Stine writing in the New York Journal offers a meditative oyster’s soliloquy on how AI tinted light alters meaning for gourmets and mollusks alike. The piece satirically contrasts culinary delight with the oyster’s doomed view of human consumption and fate.
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Bertha Washburn Stine
New York Journal
Her Interest In the Game
A Washington Star quotation reflects on a woman's view of baseball season ending and her husband’s cheerfulness at games. The speaker notes fondly that she enjoyed going with her husband to listen to his enthusiastic cheering, appreciating a rare display of cheerfulness.
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Washington Star
What Is on Autoray’s Tithe in The Century article
The piece notes Dr Brendel and Herr Raschon’s January 1892 arrival at Alten fjord Lapland to study auroral displays and magnetic disturbances. It discusses the challenge of photographing auroras, cites Herschel Jevons and General Grevly, and links auroras to solar activity and Earth’s magnetism. It predicts many auroral events in 1903 with a mean 11 year cycle to 1916.
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Alexander McAdie
Brendel
Herr Raschon
Alten Fjord
Lapland
Grevly
Rice
William Herschel
Stanley Jevons
Lie
Miracles at Gheel described as modern humane care
Hezekiah Butterworth reports in Harper’s October issue on Gheel Belgium where a government experiment frees insane patients to live in cottage boarding houses within an open country setting. The method, once deemed perilous, is praised as merciful science and now draws international investigators to study its reputed cures.
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Gheel
Belgium
Europe
Belin
Hezekiah Butterworth
Harper's Magazine
Wonders of a Watch Expose Tiny Masterpiece
A Boston jeweler highlights that a watch is a tiny, intricate machine built from about 175 materials and 2400 operations. It endures 432000 impacts daily on the fork, totaling 157,680,000 yearly and 8,158,600,000 over twenty years, driven by four flea power. Regular servicing every 18 months is advised to preserve accuracy.
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Boston
Worth Appreciated by a Printing Foreman
A young W. H. Smith once risked missing morning papers. He shed his coat and worked with subordinates to ensure vans left in time for trains. A mistaken friendly smack from a worker led to a promotion notice and recognition that he had the right stuff.
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W. H. Smith
Jack
W. H
Pearson's Weekly
Poker table charm sparks maternal care rumor
A New York Tribune item notes a humorous observation about a motherly figure drawn to the poker table. The piece hints at her tending to the "kitty" and treats it as light social color rather than a serious story, reflecting period tone.
Questioning education and farming costs in early reports
The excerpt notes Spain has 22,966 elementary schools with only 41 percent of children receiving basic education. Teachers reportedly earn $25 to $400 yearly and often fail to collect it. It also cites a claim that wheat cultivation costs $23.82 per acre in Massachusetts.
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Spain
Massachusetts
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