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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1893
Page
5
A past romance framed in wistful verse by Frank L. Stanton. The speaker recalls Jenny as a beloved whose moonlit hair and red lips made him richer than gold, while carefree days beside streams and skies fade into longing. The memory ends with love’s enduring pull and a note of poetic nostalgia.
A collection of dated kitchen directions including soft ginger cake shrub recipes and a Welsh rarebit ready to mix toast. It outlines ginger cake batter with molasses lard buttermilk and eggs, currant shrub infusion with sugar and vinegar, prune beer with hops sassafras and ginger, and a light egg sugar loaf. It also covers chocolate creams and chocolate pudding with steps for mixing boiling heating and cooling, plus a note about a paper roll invention for typewriters.
A naturalist recounts a Texas border encounter where a kingsnake battled a rattlesnake for eleven hours. The kingsnake restrained the rattler by gripping its neck, then consumed the venomous foe from head to tail, reemerging energized and ready for another hunt.
At the front gate in moonlight George asks to marry her. She asks for time and names several intervals before declaring only until the moon goes behind the cloud. The exchange appears in the Wilson Mirror.
A Georgia marshal recounts confronting a disorderly crowd described as negroes. The dialogue features a marshal asking what the uproar is about while a heavily armed individual mutters a defiant insult laden with racial slang and pseudo scholarly boast. A bystander quips that the speaker is educated in a provocative, inflammatory tone.
An earnest worker visits the North Carolina penitentiary to speak on mercy and reform. A mother's plea for her son highlights the question of youth confinement and the need for a reformative house of correction. The piece blends moral testimony with classroom observations on observation and measurement skills.
A columnist chides women for not expressing distances and measurements clearly. A lawyer asks a woman witness, How far was the man from your house? She hesitates, replying, About as far as from here to the...
A fragment from a 19th century paper sketches idle talk and social quirks among friends and neighbors. It includes jests about money for a hat and a pug, a tease about Miss Angelica Popinjay, and mild domestic observations. The Davidson County Farmers Alliance announces a rally and picnic at Thomasville on August 17, 1893 with speakers N A Dunning and Marion Butler. everyone invited.
A humorous Texas Siftings column lampoons an excessive summer heat wave with dialect, moral tongue in cheek, and warnings of sunstroke. The piece riffs on etiquette, umbrellas, and the threat of heat while interweaving local color and a call to repentance in a lighthearted sermonic voice.
The article argues that few girls can fully support themselves through college. It notes a standard college course suffices and extra work risks health and scholarship. It lists options like scholarships, loans repaid after teaching, tutoring, prize work, hourlies in reading or writing, office tasks, drawing, and lab assistance, warning of health and scholarship risks.
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