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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1892
Page
3
Zeke Bilkins and his wife Betsy discuss politics with the editor about reform, unity against monopolistic influence, and the need for honest government. They urge farmers, mechanics, teachers, merchants, and lawyers to stand together and vote for better laws.
The Kinston Free Press criticizes party leaders for corruption and urges honest control or ownership of government. It notes the Capitol's two bar rooms and plans to expand restaurant space, with the Public Buildings and Grounds Committee proposing to repurpose rooms including the printing room.
A club appeal urges members to settle back subscriptions as hard times pinch the organization. The writer notes many recognizable names among the debtors and proposes that 1,000 men paying $1 each would recover more easily than losing $1,000, encouraging renewed club membership for another year.
An East Coast shift toward reform voices is noted as Alliance and populist ideas spread beyond the South and West. The Arena and other Boston periodicals showcase reform leaders and literature challenging gold standard policy, urging money reform, labor rights, and broader economic equality.
A digest of short items across the state cites Tarboro to gain electric lights. Justice Davis’s health. John Hardy’s suicide attempt in Salisbury. Winston’s $11,000 grant for the Colored Agricultural and Mechanical College. new weekly Alliance Echo in Moncure. crows slain by a hunter in Roxboro. corn shipments in Smithfield. Randolph mills’ wooden shuttles costs. Keziah’s Union county bankruptcy. Mecklenburg jail escapes. sermons and Bible readings announced. prisoners and a Raleigh convict. harvests and wheat prospects. Rutherford College attendance rising. Dunn Times reports W Jackson liabilities. Derita gold mining claims. death of Elizabeth Elmore. Kentucky chem chair offered then declined. Fife meeting converts’ church card tallies.
A collage of dispatches reports fourteen deaths in a British Channel steam collision, a severe local blizzard in New York, Hatfield gang violence in New York, a large Victor Flouring Mill fire in Shelbyville, a dynamite attack in Angers injuring an iceman, a cyclone in Organ New York, Lieutenant Backus listed missing in Fort Keogh, Patrick Kelley killed near Fishville with mob justice, a New Orleans rice merchants stock company formation to combat the rice trust, and a new rice mill planned to challenge the trusts.
Five men were fatally injured when the fire box of a Long Island Railroad locomotive exploded on a track near Blissville in Lone Island City. The incident occurred this morning as the engine stood idle on the rails.
In Hepuzipan Georgia Mr J B Fryer located the inner safe from a dynamited safe near his dwelling. The safe was intact with bonds and other contents in perfect preservation.
Fifty people were poisoned after eating ice cream at a church social in Nashville on Monday. Two died, three more fought for life, and others began recovering as investigators probed the incident at the Madison Street building where the event occurred. a kitchen fire or explosion is noted in the damaged report amid the chaotic scene.
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