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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1891
Page
5
Fragmentary poem fragment depicts workers, landowners, and social power. Repeated lines claim being low yet enduring toil and hope amid oppression and class struggle. The piece mentions farming, grain, hay, and cloth as symbolic imagery.
A collection of kitchen formulas and technique notes including Berry Pudding with blueberries and molasses, Ham Omelette with parsley garnish, Nasturtiums Pickled, Scalloped Tomatoes, Summer Squashes, Walnut Macaroons, Chipped Pearl preserve, and Green Peas for winter storage. Details cover ingredients, preparation steps, and storage advice.
Practical tips on boiling meat and keeping eggs fresh with butter. Remedies include applying grated horse radish for neuralgia. Notes on white wool and gold trims, sulfur bleaching, and testing silks before choosing material for gowns.
Household tips cover cleaning worn clothing, preserving milk with lime water, making impermeable glue from glue and linseed oil, benefits of fish in diet, eggs and vegetables as food sources, a pine gum arabic facial remedy with camphor glycerine mix, and serving ice cream by filling watermelons or using pineapple slices with ice cream for hot weather snacks.
A boy on Croghan Street prompts a policeman to witness a domestic dispute. He explains his mother slapped the father, then the mother pins him under the table as the boy requests an arrest for slapping a woman. The officer agrees after observing the scene.
A North Side woman rebuffs a greasy hat sporting tourist who ponders cold victuals and warmed over yesterday’s scraps. He insists on food and declares he “doesn’t want the earth” before strutting off in scornful fashion. The scene unfolds at a family’s kitchen door.
In Bryant Park a calm young man bets a very respectable man on the day's heat. They wager up to $1,000 on whether the sunlit temperature exceeds 54 degrees. The betting escalates as clockwork heat and feverish conjecture rise, ending with the older man fleeing to seek whiskey and quinine.
The article describes soap used as legal tender in Queretaro with cakes valued at a cent and a half each, stamped with the town and authorized maker. It notes Celaya soap does not pass in Queretaro and mentions the unusual process of varnish and soap finishing using rendered tallow and flour for surface treatment.
A New Yorker aged about fifty says he never uses a watch claiming habits and a beard tell the time. He asserts he can rise on a fixed minute and gauge the hour by feeling his face as the beard length matches time. He notes travelers by train or ship may need a watch and timetable.
A conductor balks at letting Mamie travel on a child’s ticket claiming she is more than half grown. The mother questions the ruling as Mamie, grown or not, had traveled for ten years on a child’s fare and thus faces an abrupt price hike.
A historical note traces broom corn to a single seed allegedly sent by Benjamin Franklin and claims the crop spread across the United States. The piece notes broom corn expanded from New England to every state and mentions slave labor in the South producing brooms for extra income.
A hospital tip from The Ladies' Home Journal explains how to cool a patient without ice. Wet a linen cloth, wave it in the air, fold it, and apply, with a second cloth ready to provide steady cooling. This method gives lasting relief in fevers or weakness.
The article details seven steps of varnish finishing for harps. It describes applying about six layers of white hard varnish to fill pores, smoothing with glass paper, painting, adding eight to ten coats of varnish with periodic polishing, and final rubbing with pumice stone and polishing with tripoli before washing.
Messrs Roberts and Collins of Curle Georgia claim a recently found Confederate Mint half dollar dating before closure. The piece, valued far above face value, features Liberty on one side and symbols of the Confederacy on the other, one of four known specimens with only three other museum or sale references noted.
A young man visits his best girl in Third street and chats with her little brother who questions him about a gold watch. The boy asks if it runs and if it is wet, prompting playful exchanges that reveal a puzzled father’s remark about the watch being soaked half the time.
A Detroit Press item tells of a woman misreading a pharmacist’s instruction to shake a bottle. The pharmacist and assistant try to clarify that the mixture should be well shaken before taking the medicine. The humorous exchange ends with the customer questioning the wording.
Uncle Stephen, an old negro, tells Colonel Winter he aims to educate his son. The man explains the boy’s progress, writing letters long distance but needs strength to write far. The tale ends with an ad for The Progressive Farmer subscription and a free picture offer.
Hans Olsen and partner Peter Hansen faced a bear in a Clackamas county bear den during a trapping trip. Olsen suffered severe scratches and wore his injuries but survived with help from Hansen who fought the bear. They later crawled back to camp with bear meat as their only food. Olsen plans to trap again but fears another bear in his own den.
A collection of maxims on ignorance and reason, time as justice, cheerful poverty, self restraint, and the power of admiration. It urges temper, steady thinking, and inner strength, noting that vanity fades and true insight grows from loving what is good.
A Brussels inventor unveils a new vegetable parchment product with an improved rendering method that increases adhesiveness and suitability for industrial use. The material’s performance depends on air moisture, addressing prior limits that hindered its adoption.
Boston Transcript reports a new method by Dr. Ross of Amsterdam to adulterate coffee by extracting the bean's oils and coating the shell with varnish. The result looks like coffee but lacks its stimulating properties, marking a clever chemical deception in the market.
A reminiscence from Re roasted Chestnuts by George Grant ham Bain recalls editors recycling old tales and hoaxes. It contrasts a syndicate writer unknowingly plagiarizing and a Marshall chicken anecdote spoofing perpetual novelty.
On and after August 1st the following sewing machines will be available at any point in North Carolina with freight paid. No 4 Low Arm four drawer Singer patent 15.00 No 4 High Arm Alliance four drawer Automatic Bobbin Winder 22.60 Electric High Arm four drawer 15.00 W. H. Worts 8. B. A.
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