Radiant social season at Carolina Beach and island resort
A lively account highlights Miss Mary Barnes and Miss Florence Hierring visiting Carolina Beach, with Wilson and Warrenton hostesses and several beauties like Miss Minnie Wyatt and Miss Belle Gaines. Island Beach Hotel draws crowds with music, dancing, and a theatre under Irvin Walker at The Hammocks featuring Mile Anne as star attraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Kllshikbee Barnes
Carolina Beach
Florence Hierring
Genie Williams
Poesy
Wilson Society
Minnie
R. L. Wyatt
Warrenton
W. W. Simms
J. F. Bruton
Louis Jordan
D. A. Boykin
Wilson
Frank Barnes
Asheville
Minnie Deans
Ophelia
Will Hunter
Island Beach
Irvin Walker
Wilon
Anne
Married Men Share Plain Talk on Wives Duty and Happiness
A lengthy sermon advises husbands to mutual trust and compromise in marriage. It urges avoiding secrecy and third party interference, praises yielding when wrong, and stresses respecting a wife’s feelings. The piece extols affectionate attentiveness to keep love vibrant through trials and prosperity alike.
I Am Dying Egypt Dying Poem Read Before Battle
A veteran recounts General W S Lytle foretelling his death at Chicamauga in 1863. He and Colonel Realf shared poems, Lytle reading his doomed verse moments before dawn action. The dying lines invoke Cleopatra Isis Osiris and a Roman tragedy as Lytle falls.
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Realf
Chicamauga
W. S. Lytle
Lytle
Ohio
Egypt
Falchion
Isis
Osis
Cleopatra
Rome
A Dream of Beauty and a Lost Moment on the Road
A narrator recalls an enchanting sight of a beautiful woman on a train near Rocky Mount. Hearts admirably tremble at her charms as the scene shifts to a poignant reflection on a fleeting romance and a note of misfortune with the line Eph had got the coon, and had gone on.
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Earth
Heaven
Sahara
Rocky Mount
Eph
Coon
A True Woman Portraited In Delicacy And Decorum
The passage argues that all men value a woman in her proper role with refined appearance and manners. It asserts that stepping outside that character leads to disgust, praising gentleness, modesty, and aversion to notoriety and indecency as the admired traits in a woman.
I Am Tired Poem Reading of Rest and End
A reflective poem expresses fatigue from life and labor. The speaker seeks rest and peace in prayer, hoping for sleep and safety in God. The verse contrasts activity with repose, ending with a yearning for home and quiet end.
Left Us Miss Rena Stewart of Clinton
Miss Rena Stewart, a visiting beauty praised for her sparkling manners, returned to Clinton last week to the regret of the Wilson community where she impressed many with her lovelier character and captivating presence during her stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Gay
Franklinton
Franklin
Fannie Green
Rena Stewart
Clinton
Wilson
Orpheus of the North Carolina Press Lights Our Mood
A reader criticizes The Mixer as unsuitable for ladies, prompting a moment of despair, then a rejoinder praising Henry Blount and Henry Blount’s literary praise. The piece hails Blount as Orpheus of the North Carolina Press, whose words soothe and cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orpheus
Henry Blount
Glada
How It Was Done Ended In An Ironic Union
A diffident youth courted a country girl who longed for a crisis. After a chat about the weather she claimed she dreamed he kissed her. He asked what her mother would say and learned she was not at home. Soon after they wed.
Death of Agnes Taylor in Whitakers
The obituary notes the death of Agnes, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lon Taylor of Whitakers. It describes her as bright and pure who lived two years and then went to dwell forever in Heaven. The notice mourns her loss and mentions she will never see Spain again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon Taylor
Whitakers
Agnes
Spain
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Belle Gaines
Georgia
Gertrude Blount
G. W. Blount
Actium
Ceasar
Octavia
The
Nile
Senate
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