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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1894
Page
5
A poet laments political inaction and economic injustice. The speaker criticizes Congress and bankers for robbing labor, contrasts labor and opposition, and recalls a moment when workers stood in a solemn line. The text reads as a dated protest piece with vivid emotional imagery.
Recipes for egg toast with anchovy paste, rice and fish hash, almond puffs in orange water, and a French summer beef salad. A short vignette follows about a poor, intelligent boy on an elevated train who is rewarded with a kind man's appreciation and a bound book.
A satirical essay by Edgar W. Nye defends women suffrage in Wyoming, recounting eight years among female voters and detailing calm polling, political fairness, and the shared duty of voting. Nye notes women’s competence, discusses ballots, and muses on social dynamics, ending with ambivalence about suffrage yet affirming its right.
The author contends that support in a personal matter stemmed from strong character rather than appearance, asserting their own admirable mind and heart as the basis for backing.
Baltimore Herald reports a dramatic sky display last night with continuous lightning as a pale figure of an angel formed in the clouds. Dark clouds, wing rifts and a halo created lifelike proportions to awe and fright residents, a bystander fainting and others kneeling in amazement.
Captain Jack Crawford recounts a failed start to a lecture that becomes a triumph as he abandons a prepared manuscript. He riffs with Western anecdotes and original poems, winning a Christian audience with humor and storytelling while the pastor praises the breakthrough. The piece reflects a veteran’s humorous salvation narrative from New York Home and Country May edition.
Carl Dander visits the police station joking about his almanac Carl reads jokes and sad pieces from it to the sergeant and shopkeepers The sketches include farm humor in a mock German accent and a moral tale of a dying child read aloud to provoke tears
The article surveys Japan's top engineering schools and growing electrical manufacturing, notes the Prussian test that petroleum acts as a reliable boiler scale preventer, and compares gas and electric lighting costs in seven German cities showing electricity higher. It mentions snake venom research in Calcutta, lion and tiger limb strength, Yale nerve muscle studies, storage battery viability, and an estimated $85 per horsepower annual cost of accumulators.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from old magazines and papers. Jokes cover court scenes, marriage asks, suffrage debates, and social manners with playful twists and gentle irony. Notable lines feature a child adding apples and a dentist’s patient joke.
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