Ghastly Shadows and Death’s Ultimatum Poem
A dark lyric depicts ghastly shadows closing in as the moon sinks. The speaker laments a lover’s death, addressing Death and eternity with solemn resolve and final surrender to fate.
The Progressive Farmer in Raleigh, North Carolina
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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1893
Page
5
Household Recipes from Baked Bananas to Brown Sauce
A collection of kitchen guidance including baked bananas with lemon juice and sugar, coffee jelly set in molds, fried hominy with minimal liquid, rye muffins with rye meal and baking powder, flannel cakes with butter and eggs, and a brown sauce prepared from butter stock and aromatics to accompany beef and lamb dishes.
The Sweet Girls And The Perils Of Fashion
A critique denounces raising girls to chase beauty and status, arguing motherhood and domestic duty require practicality and piety. It warns that marrying a stylish wife risks spiritual and marital ruin, contrasting a poor suitor with a rich one through a finished anecdote.
What Was It by May Phillips Tatro
I was a station agent at Ww on the St. Paul road five years ago. A brutal storm raged as a delayed eastbound train neared, and a mysterious message warned me to turn the signal and stop the train because the Elm river bridge two miles west had gone out. I warned the crew, they halted briefly, then the bridge failed and the train returned safely, leaving me unable to explain the eerie warning beyond its truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Phillips Tatro
Ww. & Small
St. Paul Road
Dakota
Express
Wis
Elm River
Darling
Lost His Nerve Burglar Vapors Baby After Heist
A burglar sneaks into a sleeping woman’s room and drugs her to steal jewelry. A child awakens, touches the thief, and the man succumbs to a rare mercy, lifting the baby to his arms, then returns the loot and flees, muttering his lack of nerve for the crime. Exchange.
Fatal tarantula bite story shocks crowd at depot
A wholesale fruit dealer crowd panics when a tarantula crawls from a banana shipment. A Mexican cook bitten on the lip by the spider dies of delirium tremens, but the cook survives after two days of agony. The tale ends with the monster spider dying as the crowd recoils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Quantreras
The Future of Fiction in the South Explored by Garland
The April Arena essay by Hamlin Garland lauds Southern fiction as hopeful and truthful. It argues the South’s battle over equality and race will shape a new, powerful literature with the Negro and rebel figures featured empathetically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamlin Garland
South
New South
A Wise Suggestion On Temptation And Courage
A Detroit Free Press tale contrasts a rich daughter in law and a bold son in law who jokes about life insurance to avoid work. A temptation scene on a streetcar ends with applause for Bob’s restraint as a young woman praises the grandmotherly resilience and the family’s moral message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jupiter
Detroit Free Press
Little Bob and the Blue Line Car Test
A Youth's Companion writer recounts a scene on a blue line street car. A worried mother hands a note to the child Robert Cullen Deems and warns him to keep it safe. A mischievous passenger demands the note, threatening to scare the horses if denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
Robert Cullen Deems
Unlucky to Be Married Month Discussed in Matrimonial Quips
A Maine wedding notice ends with No cards no cake nobody's business. Anecdotes span from Pocahontas relics to a Washington military wedding garlanded with yellow garters. Tales of betrothal customs unfold in Switzerland Turkey and St Petersburg with marriages in jail and convict garb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
James Pierce
Wanatah
Ind
Pocahontas
Washington
Edward Murphy
Mary Brennen
Pittsburg
Murphy
Switzerland
Turkey
Muller
Dorfbarbier
St. Petersburg
Alexander Petrovitch
Siberia
Running horse meets springy fence in Ni Ho incident
A horse collides with a rigid wire barrier at Ni Ho, its impact absorbed by coiled springs. Observers note the shock scales with weight and speed, comparing the moment to a bird landing on a flexible twig.
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