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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1893
Page
5
A column of kitchen instructions lists a range of desserts and savories. It covers Angel cake with egg whites, sugar and flour, a lemon oil sauce for roast game, a layered fish pie, a foaming sauce with butter sugar and eggs, breakfast drop cakes with buttermilk and soda, white citron cakes with almonds and candied peel, and milk biscuits from sponge starter with yeast.
Denver writer Dean Hart recounts a Rico camp tale where Billy the Kid attends a frontier service in a saloon dance hall. The preacher collects a contested offering as Billy the Kid theatrically tests donors and reveals a wary humor before passing the hat.
A visitor from Stanly County North Carolina recounts a war era haunting. A whip-poor-will omen, a ghostly specter at a rural home, a father driven mad and vanished, a mother driven to insanity, and a young narrator's quest to find the missing parent, with future installments promised.
The article notes that in Ukraine and among tribes such as Zuni, Virrees, Nairs, and Garo, women take the lead in courtship. If rejected, the man must avoid the woman by leaving home. In some groups the woman also holds descent and inheritance.
In Lockport a Teachers Institute spelling contest drew eighty five participants. Only five spelled Rensselaer correctly and many common words were missed by over half the contestants. The Local notice remarks Niagara and Genesee counties show similar trends.
A dialogue of manners contrasts a Harvard street car mishap with a Hartford reunion. A cheerful bow and a ten thousand pardons remark show tact, while Reuben Bradshaw’s clumsy praise and a wife’s observation about overworked husbands highlight social awkwardness and humor.
A collection of quips and light lines from various papers and comedies. The items feature playful remarks about love lamps bicycle popularity and a range of witty exchanges among mock reporters and readers. The snippets include Scots slang and era slang about taxis guards and trains.
A small Pennsylvania rail line post office employs a dog named Beauty as assistant postmaster. The St Charles spaniel retrieves the morning mail bundles from Witmer's station, delivering the smaller bundle first with precise, speedy trips across fields to the crossroads post office for five years.
A Philadelphia paper recounted a tale of American travelers in Pompeii uncovering jars of figs sealed in the first century. The figs remained fresh, sparking speculation about a hoax or profit by visitors. It notes M Appert of France as a modern pioneer of hermetically sealed canning, funded by the navy in 1806 and rewarded in 1808 for his preserved foods.
The passage notes Appert's pamphlet translated into English in 1812 by a Wall Street bookseller, becoming a foundation for a global food preservation industry. It also cites a New York Tribune remark on death totals in a century, and then presents a string of humorous anecdotes.
A tongue in cheek proposal argues farmers could seed a state bank with pumpkins cucumbers and collards as security. The satire envisions notes backed by produce and a 6 percent rate once Congress repeals the tax, promising widespread wealth and Democratic doctrine.
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