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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1893
Page
5
A collection of kitchen guidance detailing how to make hard sauce for pudding, steamed brown bread, ground rice dessert, gem eggs, white pudding sauce, banana pudding, and chocolate wafers with step by step instructions and tips for styling and baking. It presents practical measurements, steaming times, and methods for serving.
Raleigh January 30 1893 letter from Opipiau Sykes to his wife Mrs Obidiah Sykes details a humorous yet pointed bill about wild varmints and silver coinage touching on political tensions. The correspondence includes a wife’s note describing neighbors the election, family news and community gossip.
A column excerpt discusses female influence in marriage citing Octave Thanet and a politician whose wife served as secretary. It argues that lasting connection hinges on a woman’s ability to intrigue her husband, noting some men prefer distraction and amusement in stable partnerships.
Atlanta Newspaper Union manager H D Wakefield recalls travel from 1881 to today highlighting faster trips and velvet services. He recounts a North Carolina dinner stop where a conductor waited eleven coaches for his passenger to finish dinner, illustrating past delays.
Maria Parloa argues in Ladies' Home Journal that engaged couples must openly discuss their finances before marriage. They should assess living costs, possible sickness, and the shift from neighborly spending to a simple home. If they cannot accept a modest standard, better to remain single.
A man named Tom Gilderbent frets over an engagement ring seen on a woman’s finger at a social gathering. Maud Cheviot admits the ring was borrowed to secure a fiancé and hints at an upcoming wedding in three months. The scene references a Chicago Dispatch foreign money note and notes Peru petroleum growth and ancient aqueducts.
The article surveys ancient waterworks in Greece and Carthage, says Romans built subterranean reservoirs in Constantinople, notes musk as a national scent among tribes, cites Athens waterworks begun 560 B C, lists Japanese naming order, claims leaves and faces vary, mentions Dr Bissell on tennis and cricket, describes kissing hands as ancient, and notes a Hagerstown man possessing an egg from a Plymouth Rock hen with an imprint on the shell.
A first love tale from a Southern city recalls dark eyes, a budding romance, and a later distant separation. The narrator mourns Mary who died years later, clinging to memory and the hope of an afterlife where they reunite. He pleads for belief in heaven and the enduring dream of someday meeting again.
In Davidson county on the 19th Rev J A Young unites A J Lanning and L L Leonard. Morganton on the 18th Rev J L Murphy unites J H P Cilley and Anna Abernathy. Goldsboro on the 25th Rev M Jurney unites George C Kornegay and Maggie E Bridgers. Johnston county on the 11th January W B Goodwin Esq unites A Coats and Sadie Johnson. Caldwell county on the 15th J C Hartley unites Charles P Bentley and Margaret Gilleland. Durham on the 26th Rev Stuart McQueen unites W D Moore and Hellen Bryan. At bride's mother Mrs Harriet Chapman residence on the 15th January Eugene S Smith and Mattie A Chapman. The parties are both of Wilson's Store Tokes county.
A sequence of obituaries notes deaths in Davidson County Kinston Danville Va Wilmington Wilmington James D Munds Union County Granville County Chicago Hillsboro Elmwood Yadkin County Cross Roads Davie County County Line Davie Caswell Mecklenburg over recent days. Names include Obediah Weightman C M Griffin Sallie Grady Jane Walkup M L Meadows Joseph Webb Lou V Hair Jamie Trivett Edith Dyson Sanford Simpson and Mrs W H Taylor.
Because of severe cold and snow no Mount Pleasant meeting was held January 12 1893. With enough petitions the County Alliance calls a meeting in Nashville on February 10 1893 and urges Sub Alliance representation for important business. By order of President C H Barrs Secretary Treasurer Nash County Alliance.
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