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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1892
Page
5
A compact poem from the New Orleans Times ree notes how lean years bring hardship across farming and rail lines. It laments scarce meat corn and fuel, the social strain, and the speaker's sense of shame as poverty hits families, workers, and communities with scarce dime and dignity.
A collection of plain instructions for dishes such as Frizzled Eggs Milk Toast Cottage Pudding Cream Sauce Stewed Veal Soft Gingerbread Plum Pudding Beef Stewed with Onions Potato Souffles and Spanish Fritters. The guide provides ingredient lists proportions and simple cooking steps to prepare these staples in a domestic kitchen.
Directions describe preparing bread with lemon and sugar then frying, followed by a recipe for Italian chicken and macaroni. Boneless chicken is boiled and combined with macaroni cooked in broth milk and onions, thickened with flour, then served with grated cheese and a ladled chicken sauce over the dish.
A red shepherd named Don, owned by Mr. Dupre on Common Street New Orleans, is celebrated after saving a missing baby. Don spotted the child wandering on the sidewalk, guided her home, and calmly restrained her until they reached the Dupre residence.
A sensational portrait of Menelik II, king of Abyssinia, asserting power to redraw Africa’s map from the sea to Nyanza and Khartoum. The self styled Lion Conqueror of Judah touts European style troops, armament, and clockmaking, while claiming royal descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
A desperate man demands money from millionaire Jafney using a glass ball and dynamite. After a comic twist, the thief is exposed when the supposed bomb is revealed to be a peaches jar from a women relief group. Jafney had already given a hundred dollars, proving the true spirit of charity.
Maria Parloa prescribes a simple breakfast table setup in the February Ladies' Home Journal. Each seat gets knife and fork, spoon, tumbler, and napkin. fruit service adds a finger bowl and fruit knife. Knives and spoons on the right, forks and napkins on the left, tumblers near knives, with a central fruit dish.
A well dressed man on the Sixth Avenue elevated asks a stranger to help him, claiming he is tight and cannot reach his train. He proposes a wager involving a large cash roll and a demand for a dinner at Forty-Second Street, threatening a lawsuit for $20,000 if deceived.
Ruth Ashemore urges readers in the February Ladies' Home Journal to cherish true love and avoid thoughtlessness. She warns that inconsideration and selfishness can shatter affection like a delicate Venetian glass, urging women to be grateful, generous, and at their best for their sweetheart.
A stylish young woman boards a Fifth Avenue bus without a conductor. She pays with a dime and expects change, but the box yields no change. A dapper passenger offers ten cents to two nickels, tricking her into paying twice. The scene ends with laughter as he realizes the ruse and leaves the bus in a huff.
A humorous anecdote recalls Bill Nye the humorist during a West tour a reporter tried rural wit at Nye's hotel table Nye retorted not to waste wit on dessert and suggested syndicating it for deodorizing purposes The story shifts to a fan's encounter with Nye over a mocked post office scheme where Nye demands damages fast and the two settle on 25 cents amid business talk
A passerby recalls a confrontation on a Union Square bench where a man defends his disrupted thoughts and demands respect for others rights. The dialogue exposes tensions between individual privacy and public courtesy as the speaker apologizes while the other denounces common manners.
A collage of humorous quips and cartoonish exchanges from old papers. Humorous lines touch on winter poetry, plumber bills, portrait rates, street beggars, Columbus, a hungry man, police help, and a Yale student’s expenses. Quirky lines from Texas Siftings, New York Herald, New York Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Star.
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