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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1896
Page
5
The verse laments progress and fashion's sway eroding simple life and contentment behind the cottage door. It questions the march of progress and the seductive smile of modernization that ruptures the peace once found in honest, guileless living.
AUNT Fanny shares practical recipes and domestic advice. Baked apples and coffee cake are described with step by step methods. Potatoes browned with meat are explained along with broader guidance on cleanliness and modest home upkeep.
Correspondence urges young married women to cultivate cleanliness and order in home life. It argues that wealth or servants do not guarantee tidiness and that even inexpensive dress can look neat with proper care. The piece stresses a neat yard and orderly surroundings as essential to a well kept home.
The article traces tea’s obscure origins from Chinese records of 2000 years B C and a legend of King Shen Nung She accidentally infusing leaves into boiling water to create a life enhancing elixir. It notes tea’s early royal prestige and Shen Nung She as a pioneer in agriculture and tools.
A country home offers more than shelter it provides land surrounding the house woods and a brook to nurture a child. The open landscape fosters circadian awareness sunrises and sunsets and a musical sense of nature. City life limits such daily light and natural scenery for children.
A kaleidoscopic montage contrasts rain’s practical effects with a child’s sense of nature’s mood. It weaves lightning, aurora, and meteor flashes into awe while threading in quotable gags from magazines and humorous exchanges about marriage, postage stamps, and misheard Bible verses.
The article outlines seven Corean wonders: a healing hot spring near Kin Shantao, two distant springs with opposite waters, a cold wave cave, an indestructible forest, the floating stone before a palace, a hot stone atop a hill, and Buddha sweat that prevents growth around its temple. It notes bankers raiding the treasury reserve and refers to bankers as birds Lincoln wished shot.
A compendium of brief notes from Lincolnton Brown Summit Rockwell King Charles II North Carolina inquiry asks and letters from young readers in Guilford Rowan Iredell Pitt Pamlico and others. Readers describe paper use ask questions about history geography and science and share school life with hopes of publication.
A fragment from a local column includes a riddle about a father dividing sixty dollars among three sons as a third a fourth and a fifth, a trivia note about Peter’s crucifixion, letters from readers in Augusta and Franklin County, and a query asking which presidents died on July 4. It also features a young reader praising the paper and posing Bible verse questions.
A young reader Brertha Ritchett writes to the young folks column praising The Progressive Farmer, noting her teacher Miss Annie Long and school, and asking a leap year trivia question about February having five Sundays while discussing apples and a math puzzle with 79 apples and steps of eight.
Letters from Emma G Joyner and others in Person County praise The Progressive Farmer and pose historical questions. They reference readers who read the fifth page, mention the Virginia orator cry Give me liberty or give me death, and ask about a governor killed by a turkey gobbler, early air pumps, and America’s first steam engines, among other trivia.
A 19th century social admonition discusses odors at gatherings. It notes tobacco, onion, wine, and garlic smells, and offers remedies like coffee to counter onion fumes and peppermint or mouthwash to mask wine. It cites Henry Ward Beecher on universal smell and suggests practical habits for cleaner social handling.
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