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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1897
Page
5
A fragmented poem laments a wearisome world with smothered spring and unspoken words. It imagines darkest days, muted cheers, and fading hope as the speaker asks for timely aid before widening death and sorrow overwhelm the living.
A vintage household guide lists steps for a mayonnaise with horse radish and vinegar plus sugar and mustard to taste. It adds a detailed Apple Braise, Deviled Oysters, Chestnuts as a Vegetable, Beef Pie variations, and a brief comic aside about a suit, reflecting era cooking and society humor.
In Black Bear valley Tom Sheppard, gravely ill, asks to die decently. Friends fix him up with clean clothes and a wash, then urge Joe Billings to play to him. Tom dies content after hearing the tunes, a hopeful departure noted by Judge Watkins and campmates.
A reflective piece on urban boys eight to ten at night and the role of mothers in keeping them safe. It argues mothers must be loving confidants to curb street mischief and restore trust, noting broken homes permit boys to seek unsavory companionship.
A seven year old boy warned a butcher's delivery boy to shut the garden gate. The boy shouted that the gate must be closed or someone would receive the worst licking he ever had. The delivery boy refused and left.
The butcher's boy races home in fear of punishment if the gate is left ajar. He worries mother will see him and decide he deserves a licking. He begs to shut the gate tight so he cannot slip out into the street.
The Palladium editor recalls Squire Huxtable who died last week. He was a loyal subscriber for 19 years, always paid in advance, helped with community notes, funded barn repairs, and sent a $2 bill with any marriage notice.
In a Washington Star excerpt, a poet apologizes for a line in a recent composition that was distorted by a compositor. The editor retorts that the compositor has vast experience shaping poetry and warns the author to honor superior knowledge rather than criticize.
A Chicago farmer, after moving to town, visits a real estate agent to trade his farm for city lots. The agent booms the centrally located, cheap lots, then asks to see the farm. The farmer replies he will show it after the snow melts, about ten miles back on the road to town.
At the Boerre Switzerland convention the International Statistical Institute forms a committee to study a globe wide census at the century’s start. Experts acknowledge many regions are unreachable and current estimates place world population around 1.7 billion, though figures for China Africa Persia and Turkey may be off by millions.
The piece outlines Li Hung Chang announcing a Chinese census and the Statistical Institute seeking international cooperation. It envisions extensive travel and exploration across Africa and Asia to count populations, plus hopes to conduct a synchronized census across nations. It contrasts this with an encounter in Boston where a stranger quips about a beacon lamp.
A 96 year old view contrasts early business with modern practices noting slow trade and handwritten ledgers. It recalls postal rates and delivery times, then shifts to a tramcar anecdote about a newlywed couple enduring jokes until one groom proclaims their plan to travel 160 miles and “spoon” all the way.
A collage of puns and witticisms from 19th century papers. Quips include marital quips about prayers glasses and burglars. A joke about a self made man and a banker with a cash box contrasts with remarks on patriots and postmasters.
A Mecklenburg farm installs a windless microhydro system using a 52 foot head and a turbine driven by a brook 650 feet away. A Schubert dynamo supplies current to lights in buildings, yard, and garden with 100 lamps in the dwelling, 70 in other structures, and 12 in the yard plus two arc lamps. An accumulator of 66 glass cells stores electricity for up to five days, with two motors of 10 and 12 horsepower driving pumps, a straw cutter, lathe, grindstone, and a large band saw.
A Washington Times letter reviews Andrew Carnegie’s view on gold supply and world stock. It contests projected gold increases, calls Carnegie’s logic fallacious, and questions the claim that future production will all enter coinage and circulation.
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