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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1894
Page
5
The page collects recipes and household hints from the Progressive Farmer including radish vinegar, hashed potatoes, stuffed leg of mutton, breakfast cakes, creamed turnips and tomato sauce. It mixes domestic advice with quips and light humor from the era, reflecting daily life and culinary customs.
A Virginia farmer complains as Col Webster’s troops burn his fences during 1861. The colonel defends the policy of taking only the top rails, noting his men have repeatedly taken only top rails, yet the farmer finds all fences gone and must deduce the reason.
Howard Fielding recounts how April Fools’ pranks have evolved from coal gas jokes to modern monetary gags. He describes Raymond’s old billiard room prank by Sothern and companions ending with Raymond’s tears when light returned. Watch your paper and renew.
A Norfolk style essay extols kisses as moral force and social glue. The writer argues kisses uplift humanity, cites Columbus Lee and others, and envisions kiss powered virtue and happiness in society. The piece weaves personal memory with public praise and ends with a moral anecdote about a Swedish girl under a starry sky.
A Raleigh 1863 arithmetic book used war as its context. It replaces standard problems with questions about soldiers, captives, battles, and war related costs, reflecting Southern hardship. The piece notes the book’s aim to teach youth despite scarcity and crisis, revealing wartime life and economics.
The account notes a farmer unable to pay his laborer, selling a yoke of oxen to raise funds. He tells Tom times are hard and he must let the man go, but Tom offers to work for his former employer to reclaim the cattle, prompting a plan to recover wages in cattle.
A collection of clipped signs and notices shows zany ad copy and stark facts. Examples include a Richmond paper offering two rooms for rent to a young widow, a tobacco factory girls ad, a piano for sale by a lady with carved legs, a 10 cent laundry boast, and a Park Row hat blocking sign. Also noted is a double murder, dog shootings, truth spoken signs, umbrella recoveries, and a Raleigh restaurant warning about language use.
Items of interest report diverse data from auctions and industry. Highlights include 200000 lace curtain pairs sold in New York and 5000 pieces, HMS Lucania’s Atlantic record of five days thirteen hours and forty-five minutes, Campania piston speed near 1000 feet per minute with a five foot stroke, and Germany’s planned 60th anniversary celebration of match invention. Also noted are electricity adoption at a Pennsylvania Railroad tower, NH savings deposits rising to 77024282 in 1893, Erie Railway ordering 1000 freight cars at 660 each, Natal’s sole woolen mill output, U S currency in circulation, a New York pie factory output, egg spending by 1795 operative families, Central Park land values, English dye wood imports, New York City property value growth, American spokes and hubs for British builders, a Readings whistle for Philadelphia car plant, and Syracuse Salt Works evaporating surface exceeding 12 million square feet.
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