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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1895
Page
5
The speaker praises a girl as fair and sweet, her blue eyes and golden curls evoking deep joy. A lover gazes with reverence as stars shine above, confessing love and offering devotion amid a church sighting. The verse blends tender adoration with romantic longing.
Domestic kitchen notes describe step by step methods for tomato ketchup, plum porridge, and boiled potatoes. Instructions cover peeling, stewing, straining, and canning. milk and starch thickening for porridge. thorough boiling and salting for potatoes. and preparation of flageolet beans with butter, salt, and optional claret.
Instructions describe marking pillow cases and linens with initials and monograms. Details cover placement on pillow cases hem, tablecloth corners, and napkins, plus stitch types like laid stitch, French knots, and seed stitch.
A district meeting in Oakwood Alamance County features Estelle Walker urging the Christian home as God’s blessing. The address condemns alcohol, urges prohibition, upholds family duty, civic virtue, and woman’s role in reform to save the nation and its liberties.
A historical view links womankind to moral reform and battlefield courage. It cites biblical and ancient examples where women's presence inspired men to action, noting wives and daughters accompany armies to bolster resolve and alter outcomes. The piece urges modern reformers to recognize women's essential role in crises and progress.
A Progressive Farmer item describes two brethren, Brother A Jones and another, seeking the Alliance corpse in Pamlico County. They express resolve to mourn properly if the Alliance is dead and undertake the quest to locate the body in local county records.
The narrator describes an Alliance meeting in which a large turnout, strong enthusiasm, and quick fundraising occurred. He notes prior county distances, a damaged cotton bagging issue resolved, and writes of rising prices, revived business, and a grand neighborhood rally potential. Also cites global gold circulation, a 640 pound nugget in New South Wales, and claimed Bokhara gold deposits as nearly inexhaustible.
The Atlantic has eleven cables in operation costing upward of 70 million dollars. Queen Victoria reportedly remarked that every third Irish woman she saw was beautiful. Herbert Spencer criticizes the misuse of his name in support of socialism and calls its advent the greatest disaster the world has known.
James H Wright Carlton organizer for Sixth district lists Johnston Wake Durham Granville Vance and adjoining counties. George Hunt Michael and others named as organizers for Eleventh and Ninth districts with counties including Cabarrus Mecklenburg Gaston Lincoln Iredell Chowan Gates Hertford Chatham Orange Person Caswell and others. First district covers Currituck Pasquotank Perquimans Chowan Gates and surrounding counties. T W Babb noted for Hertford. Fourth district Don C Sanders organizer lists Wayne Duplin Onslow Pender New Hanover and Sampson. Twelfth district includes Alexander Wilkes Ashe Alleghany Surry Watauga Mitchell and others. J W Cox Edwardaville. Fifteenth district covers Haywood Jackson Macon Graham Cherokee Swain younty Cherokee and Transylvania. Sylva listed as organizer. Fourteenth district includes Buncombe Yancey Madison Henderson Transylvania Polk.
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