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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1892
Page
5
The piece memorializes Polk with lines of grief and national tears. It names THEO PInTHER of 22 Temple St Los Angeles California, and laments Polk’s death with imagery of stars and a lasting memory. The tone is mournful and honors Polk as a heroic figure.
A collection of kitchen instructions for scalloped potatoes strawberry sauce rhubarb jelly banana and lemon jelly cream chicken pie and soup with optional add ins. It closes with Professor Stuart Blackie turning eighty three this July known for never wearing spectacles and two Greek mottoes in every letter.
Edger W Nye surveys U S road conditions urging a reform toward practical concrete improvements. He rails at poor rural wagon paths, mocks officials who oversee roads, and imagines a Chicago exposition showing road building progress while sharing humor about mules, farming life, and social foibles. He closes by urging action to improve transport and infrastructure.
A collage of light hearted quips from Puck and Judge style humor columns. Bits range from shop talk and social manners to family antics and stray aphorisms. Prominent figures referenced include doctors and editors, with varying punchlines about money, communication, country living, and daily life.
A Waterbury to Hartford trip yields a tale of a drummer named Bowen and Mollie, a rejected suitor, and a marriage revealed on the road. Elbridge discloses Mollie’s choice to marry Arthur Gibson, prompting surprise and relief as the couple seeks forgiveness from Mollie’s aunt and her father. The scene blends trains, a bridge fire, and a dramatic, candid confession aboard a midwest-style journey.
A Boston Transcript line quotes a venerable father urging his daughter to guard a good name as she goes to a boarding school. Three years later the same woman marries a man named Gandershanks, a detail noted by the Chicago Tribune.
The People s party of North Carolina will meet in Raleigh on August 16 1892 to nominate state officers and electors. County chairmen must call county conventions August 6 to choose delegates with one vote per 500 governor votes from 1888 and arrangements for township primaries. County conventions will elect delegates to the national convention at one for every 300 governor votes. W R Lipsay chair.
Notice lists rail rates for delegal officers and friends attending the N C Farmers State Alliance meeting in Greensboro on August 9. Tickets priced by distance, with sale August 6–9 and valid until August 15. Rates vary from 5 to 5½ cents per mile short trips, 5 to 4 cents per mile longer trips, and 4 cents per mile for 200 miles or more round trip. Also includes requests for committee reports, lecturer hiring, and expense arrangements from Barneys, Secy-Treas. N C F A.
Notice directs all communications to the Executive Committee be addressed to W. J. Barnes at Beasley in Raleigh care of W. Barnes. By order of the Executive, Barnes Secy Treas.
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