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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1895
Page
5
A mixed page of kitchen directions includes cookies, salsify shapes fried in batter, pressed liver tutorials, creamed cod, and a potato puff recipe with butter cream and eggs. It ends with a collage of quotations celebrating women from Eliot, Hazlitt, Southey, and Irving.
In Kensington a May Day picnic at Amber Woods ends in reconciliation for Alline Hay and Charles Prevo. After a quarrel sparked by jealousy over a previous admirer, Alline encounters Charles gathering sweet williams, forgives him, and he asks to marry soon, sealing their reunion amid a joyful crowd.
Bint Nyg recounts a Hastings encounter with William G. L. Duc, once head of the agricultural department, who is teased for wild grafting ideas and for not knowing the era’s eminent figures. The narrator admonishes Duc to study notable minds before further experiments.
Handkerchiefs appeared in England during Elizabeth I's reign while Greeks linked breeches to slavery. Rice spread to Spain by Arabs and to Italy by Spaniards in 1468. Dourra and sweet sorghum likely originate in the Sudan. Graham flour should be whole wheat ground evenly. Coarse coffee-like grains in Egyptian coffins remain unique. Spelt may derive from wheat via cross fertilization. Barley drinks date to ancient Germany. Wheat dominates global diets after rice, followed by maize. Six New England states yield about 11 million bushels of apples yearly. Sorghum, known as dourra, is listed by Pliny in Egypt. Mrs. Alexander, famed novelist, is Mrs. Alexander Hector, nearly 70. Baroness Burdett Coutts owns the finest first folio Shakespeare. The Bon Marche in Paris houses the world’s largest kitchen with 4,000 employees.
The article notes M. Emile Zola intends to leave Paris imminently for Spain to conduct study work for a forthcoming book. It also mentions other varied items such as a Swazey Indiana man recovering from measles, insurance life expectancy trends, a gospel ship for Puget Sound mission work, King Behanzin’s exile, and Sophie Nordhoff joining a Munich women’s clinic.
Cousin, Ga March 9. Uncle Ira Jennings, veteran stage driver and oldest star-route mail rider, born 1815 in Danby N Y, began driving in 1831. He drove Polk and Fillmore in 1845, remembered Jackson and Van Buren, and was first to drive on the railroad era road with plank wheels. He later carried mails Danby to Knoxville and Macon to Petersburg era, resigning due to impaired sight.
The Richmond Star argues walking delegates are not powerful figures but tools used by plutocratic papers to pressure judges for hostile labor legislation. They claim delegates are harmless individuals who only strike when a local union orders it, yet a certain New Testament couple’s fate unsettles the plutocrats.
A garbled OCR snippet shows a sequence of numbers and monetary figures, including 30 102 25 3389 85 11.250 5 and 5514 74 655 57 with $90,046 00. The text resembles a financial or accounting record fragment with no readable names, dates, or clear actions.
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