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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1897
Page
5
Fragmented verse depicts a coyote on the cold prairie and a child in a birchen nest. Night wind stirs pine leaves as dawn nears and a papouse wakes to the morning light in Detroit Free Press imagery.
A patchwork page features recipes for cream tomato soup horseradish sauce and spiced grapes with instructions and ingredient lists. It also includes a year end message from Emma G. Joyner Oswego North Carolina and a short note on a country girl earning money by baking bread and biscuits for neighbors.
Reginald Trescott, a bank teller, wins Enid Day by exposing Jerome Naylor as the forger in a staged confession. Enid reveals a watermarked paper proves the forgery, Naylor confesses love for Enid, and Trescott becomes cashier, marrying Enid.
A Chicago News excerpt presents a veteran’s lengthy tirade on battlefield accuracy with rough calculations for Shiloh and Gettysburg, claiming millions of bullets and specific hit rates, followed by a discussion of love doubt in women as a literary theme and a blunt gendered contrast. The piece shifts from war to a fiction critique and ends mid thought about women’s moods.
The text reflects on love's differing effects on men and women. Men show boundless joy when loved, while women seek gentle melancholy and doubts they would deny under challenge. It notes this dynamic as timeless, shaping happiness and even guiding John Keats toward a final wish for love as a sweet unrest.
Letters from Craven Rockingham Vance Jonas N O express desire to join the Young Folks column in The Progressive Farmer. Contributors ask questions on Methuselah steamboat invention Declaration of Independence birth of America first English child born in America Pacific Ocean discovery and other topics. Readers sign with locations and ages.
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