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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1896
Page
5
Poetic fragments recall autumn through fairy imagery and seasonal changes. Lines celebrate turning leaves, ripening fruit, and twilight hush as the season nears its close, invoking names like Florence A Hayes Ellen Palmer Allerton and Hartley Copperid.
A damaged recipe fragment describes combining one pound uncooked liver with egg yolk parsley melted butter breadcrumbs salt pepper and shaping into a scroll bake thirty minutes. It also outlines an English apple pie with sugar clove cinnamon lemon zest juice in a paste lined dish and serving hot.
A 19th century note describes a method to preserve apples as sauce using sugar and cinnamon. Peel and cut apples, layer with sugar and spice in a jar, simmer gently, then cool. The resulting preserves are said to be very palatable and convenient for busy households.
A jumble of light hearted quips and misshapen gibes appears with figures like Milnor and Willie trading teasing lines about pennies and watches, a jeweler’s bedbug joke, and a farmer's apples tale. A principal teases a family wealth while Frnner Jones discusses apples and a hesitant husband offers a wary glimpse of marriage.
A mid summer tale follows Violet Denson in a gray ivy draped house as she recalls a rushed marriage to a wealthy older bachelor after a quarrel with her lover Thurman Weir. A guitar’s sad notes reveal a heartache spanning a year and lead to a rekindled reunion and a hopeful future.
On a passenger train a trio laughs at an old man until a baggage porter helps repair a damaged trunk. The man recalls his late wife and their forty nine years together, while the women grow ashamed. A young woman covers him with her fur, and two companions watch, moved by the moment.
Two miles west of Greensboro North Carolina on the Southern Railway. J Van Lindley, proprietor, announces a long standing fruit trade from Maine to Texas. The new illustrated catalogue includes Japan fruit and other good fruit and flowers. Agents wanted.
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