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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1897
Page
5
Fragmented verse discusses love and memory with references to Beowulf style imagery. The text names Elia Woeeer Wilcox and Farm and Fireside, hinting at a literary or periodical publication context.
A kitchen column lists fried oysters with egg yolk and cornmeal, cider sandwiches with macadamia and walnuts, a frozen fruit salad with cherries grapes and Jamaica rum, grilled almonds, and a rich fruit cake with butter eggs and rum. It also weaves in stray humorous quotes about marriage and street railway crowds.
An American joins family in Ceylon to survey land and discovers Ahmed the tame elephant. After observing cruel treatment, he defies Selim the keeper, earns Ahmed’s trust, and trains the elephant to build a bridge. Ahmed later becomes loyal, guiding his new keeper and accompanying the narrator to the port.
A wart cure method recommends applying aromatic vinegar with a fine camel hair brush twice or thrice daily, avoiding surrounding skin. A course of epsom salts may help dispel the tendency to develop warts. The note warns to watch paper labels and renew subscriptions when expired.
A reader writes from North Carolina asking about whiskey spending and lunar months while answering Felix Whitener’s Christ baptism question. Another boy answers questions about the first U.S. statue and clock time, signing W B DrsyaM.
Mr Editor asks to join the young folks column and offers to answer and pose questions. He inquires about Captain Cook's body, animal lifespans in the Torrid Zone, toad longevity, and a Revolutionary War dog alarm story, signing G Herman Parker and sending regards to The Progressive Farmer.
The Atlanta Journal recalls a tale about Logan Carlisle chief clerk at the Treasury under Secretary Carlisle. A daughter protest claims the rule barring two family members from Treasury work is unfair as both father and son were employed, prompting his quip that the old man would have to go.
A Syracuse tower 200 feet tall leans 13 inches from plumb, provoking public fear. The common council calls it a menace while the owner and architect insist it remains stable and resistive to further departure, with debate likely to decide its fate. The structure tilted after a recent tornado and wind did not cause serious damage.
Advice advises rising early and cold baths, vigorous rubbing, and hot water before breakfast. Limit meals to three daily with small teas and light foods. Breakfast includes dry toast boiled fish or a cutlet and fruit. dinner features fish or meat vegetables and fruit. supper offers toast salad fruit and wine or water. Hot lemon water recommended for supper.
Instruction notes that flour thrown on burning oil will instantly extinguish it while water will spread flames. Written as a practical safety tip from the era.
A magazine page outlines forthcoming pieces including Japan and China since the war, The Unquiet Sex essays by Mrs. Helen Watterson Moody on woman’s reforms and related topics, Howells’ Story of a Play, George W. Cable short stories, travel pieces by Lewis Morris Didings and Richard Harpin Davis, and illustrations by international artists.
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