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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1892
Page
5
U B Gwynn presents a rustic reverie where a speaker rejects wealth and society to forge a personal utopia. He imagines taming pests and beasts, living in honesty, and finding peace away from deceit, clamor, and fashion, in a simple self governing world.
A compact collection of old kitchen instructions covers mock mince pie potato sausage lettuce salad and stewed kidneys with notes on preparing leaves, eggs, spices and sauces. The fragment ends with a remark that Shakespeare study is experiencing a revival in Germany.
A Chicago Press account recounts multiple alleged burials alive from the 19th century including Minnie Davis in Asheville North Carolina and Henry Garlin in Rochester New York. It describes coffins torn ribbons and fingers clawing in a chilling tableau of awakening in death.
The case of Joseph Copeman, a deaf mute boy from England living in Osceola Mills, mystifies Dr. Horatio C. Wood. Once healthy, he began limping and then walked backward only, with left leg and arm failing, after convulsions and a severe illness. He sought care at Philipsburg, St Luke's Bethlehem, and was kept from deaf school to be treated by physicians.
A veteran Jersey City locomotive engineer recounts the suspense of run over accidents on rail lines. He describes collisions with trains, pigs, goats, cows, horses, sheep, and a flock of geese, detailing the shock, fear, and aftermath as the train resumes its course toward the West-New York Tribune.
A survey of scientific notes covers fish sleep myths, milk diets, Salton Lake rainfall rise, gutta-percha for telegraph protection, Dunns insect collection, primate skeletons and bone diseases, a honey substitute, milk butter yield, yellow fever vectors via pet birds, corn husk paper making, kerosene lamp wicks, an internal organs camera from Germany, and tree growth patterns in cottonwood and conifers in Scotland.
The article compares locomotive speed to projectile velocity, noting trains reach sixty miles per hour while modern artillery fires projectiles at 1365 miles per hour. It contrasts boiler pressure driving trains with the immense pressures 35 000 to 45 000 pounds per square inch experienced by artillery.
The article traces tobacco use beyond America before Columbus, noting Pacific islands and inner Africa, with indigenous varieties predating white contact. It highlights Virginia tobacco reaching Africa and local terms for tobacco, while New Guinea showcases independent smoking origins with crude cigars and unique practices.
French statisticians estimate Americans bury 1800 pounds of gold yearly in teeth. Dentists place this gold in patients that is never recovered. At current trends cemeteries may hold more gold than France within a century, per St. Louis Republic.
Notice states any member of the Alliance in the District may be selected as President who shall serve as District Lecturer. signed Fraternally, E.
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