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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1896
Page
5
A fragmented poem muses on how time, stillness, and nature shape the mind and heart. References to weather, youth, and fleeting joy hint at mortality and recollection without clear narrative details.
The text outlines a Graham Pudding prep combining sifted flour milk soda salt and dates with cream and a two and a half hour setting. It also describes Oatmeal cooking in a double boiler with oats salt water and a gentle simmer for 45 minutes or more.
A North Carolina farmer’s wife writes about managing six children with help from her husband. She describes daily chores, her eldest son Wiltie at his first school, and her affection for country life versus city comforts, urging sisters to bear burdens cheerfully.
An advice note discusses the major challenge of parenting for young mothers. It argues many lack proper maternal training, warns against excessive punishment, and emphasizes balanced use of firmness and kindness while advising prudent, judicious guidance in child rearing.
A harsh critique of weak child punishment contrasts with a story about a congressman’s bluff in a mountain encounter and a Tennessee dog that can imitate farm noises, as narrated by a Washington Post correspondent.
A rooster crowing through a window led Mrs. Downing to discover a dog that can crow on cue. The dog Bench learned commands and drew crowds as neighbors watched. Barnum & Bailey offered to buy him to train a talking dog, but his owner refused.
Lilian Bell surveys The Philosophy of Clothes in April Ladies' Home Journal, noting that praise for gowns often glosses the wearer. The page retells jokes from Bil Nye, Roxbury Gazette, Woonsocket Recorder, Chicago Evening Post, Philadelphia Record, Roxbury Gazette, Woonsocket Reporter, Bostonian wit, and Denver Republican about fashion, manners, and social perception.
A flood of one to eleven year old writers asks questions and offers answers in the Progressive Farmer young folks column. They discuss biblical verses early American history and printing presses while noting school terms family life and local alliances. readers sign with towns across North Carolina.
Levi Branson publisher in Raleigh North Carolina sets pricing for single mail copies 20 per mail 1 dozen per mail half gross per express one gross per express and urges immediate orders with names printed on backs.
To my fellow farmers I offer peas-oitteen seed by mail at price covering shipping and handling. The seller claims to have cultivated the seed itself and praises its prolific yield and soil-improving properties. Instructions note sowing with small grain in winter and spacing. Address B.S. Unders Fayetteville North Carolina County Alliance Bus Agent for Cumberland County on hand a few bush rolinas.
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