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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1893
Page
5
A rustic lyric describes choosing open orchard space over confinement. The speaker longs for sky overhead and earth beneath, breathing freely, sprawled on soft grass in shade, with mother preparing a cozy home atmosphere for visiting company.
Household guidance covers veal cutlets boiled briefly then breaded and sautéed, potato croquettes with moisture caution, cheese sandwiches with Rocque fort and mayonnaise, and gooseberry compote. quenelles use veal or fowl meat, gravy simmered with bread balls. A narrative recalls a murder investigation in New Jersey with sensory and dramatic detail.
A fledgling physician Dr Struthers pursues wealth by posing as a miracle cure, and wins access to Miss Clara Tyler through a pretend heart condition. He falls for her, while Miss Tyler’s strict father resists the match. Struthers’s ruse becomes romance as she recovers and they confess love amid family tension.
The article explains the term picnic from 1802 derived from pick and nick, where participants supplied foods or drinks by ticking items on a shared list. It notes the open air entertainment as a nineteenth century institution and ends with a subscription reminder to renew.
Samantha Allen argues for shared moral expectations between boys and girls, recounting how she pressured Josiah Allen to treat Thomas Jefferson like Tirzah Ann. She asserts that liquor harms all genders, that virtue is not gendered, and that purity rests on duty, courage, and kindness rather than masculine trappings.
A fragment from a commentary on a Baptist camp meeting showing stereotyped dialects and religious expressions used by a young Black preacher and his audience. The piece satirizes mimicry and the perceived apishness of Southern Negro religiosity through quoted lines and rhetorical flourishes.
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