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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1896
Page
5
A terse verse piece from The Progressive Farmer offers solace to distressed readers. It mocks woes and suggests endurance, likening fate to Job and urging a stoic smile as life’s trials persist. The text presents a cautionary, wavering tone about misfortune and consolation.
A collage of kitchen instructions for a four egg cake and a Brown Betty bake with layers of apple and bread crumbs, plus a mushroom salad, oysters in a loaf, and a sago and claret soup. Includes a comic exchange about stealing chickens and a child’s quip about holding a baby.
In a conversa tion between two old Westminster friends a vicar recalls his secret from a jail chaplain career. The tale centers on Ella York, her aunt Miss York, and a convict who dies after revealing Ella is his daughter. The revelation tests love, faith, and a hidden family truth kept by the couple.
This old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 reward for any case not cured. Includes address F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and note that druggists sell the remedy for 75 cents.
Ray Wilder leads a May evening plan with his sister Nell and Julia in a home discussion about forming an anti swearing league among their friends. Ray insists most of their crowd do not swear and aims to organize a society to influence games and behavior among players and fans at matches.
Ray Wilder leads a boyhood crusade to curb profanity at baseball games. A plan to form the Anti Swearing League gains members, drafts by laws, and excludes confirmed swearers from games. The effort reduces swearing through peer pressure and discipline, earning broad school support and inspiring other towns to imitate the movement.
A touring politician mingles with farmers at a blacksmith shop and asks if Judson Blank is well known. The farmer replies that locals simply call him old Jud Blank. The visitor seeks praise for sincerity, hearing a blunt comment that if Blank had more sense he might be different, a moment of awkward humor reported by the St. Louis Republic.
Two miles west of Greensboro North Carolina on the Southern Railway. Well known for thirty years. Up with the times with all the new as well as the old fruits suited to the trade from Maine to Texas. The new Japan fruits and other good fruit and flowers are shown in a new illustrated catalogue free to all. Age is wanted. 1898. J Van Lindley, Propr.
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