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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1895
Page
5
A collection of simple home recipes including scorched salt fish with butter, scalloped onions with a creamy sauce, bubble and squeak with corn beef and cabbage, sour milk muffins cooked on a griddle, shank soup with vegetables, fried oysters with cream sauce on toast, and a plain boiled custard with optional cinnamon infusion.
Dairy writers debate cow water preferences while the Missouri State Dairy Association and State Board of Agriculture announce a meeting in Higginsville Missouri on November 26 28 1894. Farmers from Pennsylvania weigh wheat as a feed value for milch cows, noting potential returns.
The American Bimetallic League at St Louis on Nov 27 28 1894 adopts a platform denouncing the gold standard since 1873, urging free coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1, organizing Silver Leagues nationwide, and instructing a five member committee led by Senators Jones and Tillman to lead the movement toward the 1896 objective.
The piece narrates a Progressive Farmer correspondence illustrating the single tax concept. It recounts how naive followers overestimate isolated applications while outside forces skew results, and begins a humorous anecdote about a well meaning old man who imagines steam power can be practically used with a kettle and improvised apparatus.
In a Brooklyn vignette, Deacon Jones's steam powered theory meets reality as he tests a tea kettle and groaning beans. Mrs. Wells mocks progress while the kettle leaks and a clock blows apart, proving steam's limits and underscoring the single tax debate with Place Owner and community value at stake.
A physician recalls cases of apparent death and near misses of burial. He describes reviving a hysteric girl after an hour of artificial respiration and notes a patient who seemed dead but woke days later. He argues non-evidence of life is not proof of death and urges finding the precise moment death replaces life.
Philadelphia papers report a surge in advertising from firms that never advertised before, calling it the modern way of doing business. The Philadelphia Record notes strong ad growth, while Chicago Tribune references this trend as a sign of business vitality. A fragment mentions relief from irritation using Bronchial Troches.
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