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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1893
Page
5
The Riverdale Sub Alliance No 1303 criticizes a political scene with a published verse titled Mary Ann by H. B. sung to Baby Mine. The piece portrays bosses blaming and taunting Mary Ann amid tariff disputes and shifting alliances.
A mixed reading from a 1993 North Carolina piece includes kitchen recipes for egg plants gingerbread veal loaf clam soup and scraped corn. It blends domestic cooking notes with a protest letter from B CLean Ashcraft Monroe July 27 1993 condemning political meetings at an orphanage grounds and urging restraint while praising community figures.
Letter expresses belief of an Alliance rally at the orphanage on August 17 with Marion Gustler and others to speak. The writer hopes the report is false and condemns politicizing the orphanage grounds as desecration by demagogues.
In a Tenderloin club one night last week a Texan recalls a near clash over a poker hand with a man introduced as Mr Something or Other. The table drama centers on a mock high life bluff and a disputed flush, ending with a confrontation as bystanders watched.
A Siamese named Al Yone was executed by decapitation after murdering his wife who left him for a lover. The scene featured an ornate ceremony with officials, Buddhist rites, and a post-execution head displayed on a pole before a mixed Siamese Chinese crowd. A Geneva craftsman introduced a speaking watch with a phonograph announcing time.
A saloon keeper Jan Gebhardt clashes with a Salvation Army visit on Sunday. Cowboys invade a church, force prayers, and collect valuables. A widow moves a young man Billy to reveal his true family, ending with a heartfelt reunion as he discovers the woman is his mother.
The narrator recalls a tense scene where a man lunged at a stranger, mistaking him for outlaw Frank James. George intervened, dragging the aggressor away and correcting the identity amid the Windsor hotel milieu. The altercation ends with the narrator sobered by the shock of the mistake.
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