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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1893
Page
5
The speaker argues the word lady embodies refinement and virtue and should replace the term woman in poetry. She urges the poetess to discard the old verse praising woman and adopt lady to honor dignity and intellect.
A collage quotes Thackeray, Burnett, Tennyson and others on writing habits and artistic life. It notes Zulu manuscripts, Philadelphia artist colonies, and a playful mix of anecdotes from The New York Weekly and Harper's Bazar, including jokes about lions, labor, and flustered speakers.
A vintage kitchen list covers Brown Bread Apple Tapioca Pudding Breakfast Coffee Cake Orange Shortcake and Banana Pudding. It details ingredients and steps for baking variations and serving ideas with notes on timing and accompaniments.
A compact note listing odd beliefs and facts: ancients imagined silk grew on trees, German newspapers predominantly owned and edited by Hebrews, the Methodist Church property valued at 96 million dollars, New York leading with 1958 devis papers, Nevada with 25, and a note that sea has 100 societies.
A narrator recalls stopping for dinner along the Clover fork of the Cumberland River. On the porch a hostess questions whistling by note versus simultaneity and asks about song names including Comrades Annie Rooney Maggie Murphy's Home Tara Boom and McGinty. The exchange ends with recognition.
A Detroit Free Press reader recollects recognizing McGinty and connecting him to the tariff named after him. The anecdote unfolds during dinner time as the speaker confirms the identity.
Mr. Dunder visits a police station to discuss his sixteen year old son Jake who speaks in slang and uses bizarre terms. The sergeant explains Shake’s speech reflects American slang and humor, ending with the father hoping his boy behaves better.
Bill Nye recounts humorous travel experiences in Ohio with a pained look at finances and politics. He skewers self made men, woeful depots, and local oddities from Mackinaw to Ashtabula, ending with cautionary notes on honesty and manners.
A traveler recalls giving a note from a mother to a porter William White in a New York to Jacksonville trip. The note praised his attentiveness and suggested a salary raise, signed by Mrs. S. B. The scene ends with White reacting to the generous gesture and a humorous misreading about a fifteen dollar bank check.
The New York Sun editorial on Wilson G. Hunt praises his integrity after he repaid debts at a creditors dinner with checks for full amount. It contrasts haste to be rich with duty in paying debts and questions the need for paper money beyond gold and legal tender.
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