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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1896
Page
5
A reflective meditation on enduring faith as earthly hopes fade. The eye that sees all guides the soul toward a daily, eternal day, providing strength, truth, and nourishment for spirit. The poem anchors trust in divine light beyond cold winds and night.
Readable portions outline almond cake delicate pudding beef croquettes and crab croquettes with ingredients and basic methods. Includes mixing butter sugar eggs milk flour and almonds for cake and pudding. croquette shaping batter and frying notes. crab croquettes with anchovy essence and binding steps.
A humorous tale follows Johnson as he slowly installs a stove, enduring mishaps from rattling pipes and soot to skinned knuckles, while his wife schemes a quiet Sunday labor of love. The scene shifts with careful prep, wrung cloths, and a whistling man brought to task by a home project.
A Topeka State Journal note urges farm boys and girls to study at home learning stenography typing shorthand and bookkeeping. It promotes practice on bills and discounting as a practical path to future employment, noting bill clerks are in demand and success comes from self improvement despite limited local influence.
A clergyman recounts a Sunday incident where only one person could have placed a button in the collection bag. After church a wealthy man admits the mistake, producing a shilling and the button, and asks how the clergyman knew it was him. The exchange ends with a lighthearted bow and moral ambiguity.
A Cincinnati meat packer recalls a Macon State Fair memory where Pennsylvania Chester White hogs dominated, but blue ribbons went to razorbacks. He notes the judge’s honesty and the quirky scene as the exhibit owner sought an explanation for the surprising awards.
An Atlanta Constitution passage quotes a judge explaining why prizes favored native stock over nonnative hogs. He says the imported hogs are short legged and fat and unsuitable for the South where speed and stamina are prized. the judge notes that prizes reward fast hogs with legs and wind, not merely heft.
Public health guidance cautions mothers on safe winter practices for infants. Do not cover the head to avoid inhaling own breath, keep feet dry and warm, avoid overburdening strong babies, protect the chest, maintain regular meals and rest, and prohibit smoking around very young or sick babies. Fathers should model non smoking.
A collage of brief comic bits from various periodicals, featuring jokes about prices for cans of maries, seed growing for birds, a millionaire heir, and domestics turning laughter into lessons. The playful exchanges cover oil with salad, gargling chickens, fuel from corn, and a light take on women’s rights and widowers, all framed as quaint, old-time humor.
A playful poem contrasts two boys, Tommy Til Try who loves good deeds and always perseveres, with Johnnie I Can't who shirks work and refuses to try. The piece rails against reluctance, celebrating effort and bravely choosing the former.
A 13 year old Corintu Cuerca of Monroeton N C writes of enjoying the paper especially the young folks column and asking to hear from readers. A J R Haynes of Monroe ton N C also pens in asking about the first sin and notes reading the column weekly.
A 15 year old student from Cleveland County North Carolina writes to the Progressive Farmer asking where Cornwallis surrendered and recalls York Town as the answer. She also asks who killed all little delicate female children and signs as Hester McGrath.
In Mapleton North Carolina Epitor is asked about the discoverer of phosphor retted hydrogen. The letter explains the writer’s first attempt to write and notes admiration for the paper and the young folks column. The contributor mentions Carolina being named after King Charles II and ends with the question.
A letter from W D Alford of Onslow County North Carolina extols the paper especially Aunt Fanny’s letters and the school section. He asks about the first steamboat crossing the Atlantic and Washington’s election year. A second note from Mr Epior comments on school life teacher N W Mills and his family’s reading habits.
A school girl offers a solution to a local apple theft riddle. She describes numbers and a math puzzle about a farmer and a boy chasing through an orchard, asking how many leaps the farmer must make to overtake the boy and how many the boy will make.
A collection of letters from Wake and nearby counties to Mr Epior in Apex and from W Epstein Pranct and EME Kina. Children aged 9 to 14 request to join the young folks column and share questions about Bible verses history and a note on Stonewall Jackson. The letters show community readers seeking subscribers for The Progressive Farmer and praise the paper as an educator.
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