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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1893
Page
5
A protest poem questions why a Congress is needed just to create laws that are ignored and asks why a President would enact views when a monarch could emerge. It contrasts rulers who favor the rich with their humility toward poverty and critiques selective honesty about trusts, citing Bullock N. C. and BuLlock.
A collection of old time kitchen instructions detailing mutton tea, Boston brown bread, molasses cake, raised doughnuts, gooseberry jam, and tea biscuit. Includes steps for simmering, steaming, boiling, baking, and frying with ingredients like mutton, molasses, flours, dairy, sugar, lard, yeast, and spices. Provides methods for flavor, texture, and preservation across the listed dishes.
A weekly journal editor mixed up two readers letters and gave wrong remedies. One query asked how to soothe twins teething and the other how to shield an orchard from grasshoppers. The swapped replies advised cruel actions and odd remedies, causing readers to discontinue subscriptions.
In a July Review of Reviews sketch by C D Lanier, Thomas A Edison explains his drive to work, saying he hates the finished product and avoids telephones and incandescent light after projects end. He admits he dislikes the fame and money, preferring constant pursuit of unfinished endeavors.
Billy Haven, a clever thief praised by police, plans a fake arrest at banker Mr. Slider’s mansion. The scheme relies on a police inspector posing as an arresting officer plus four accomplices to seize valuables. Slider offers twenty four thousand pounds to cancel the trap, and the plan succeeds until Slider vanishes with vast funds, later rumored to be in South America.
The piece portrays Thomas A. Edison as a powerful commercial innovator rather than a pure scientist. It emphasizes his drive to apply scientific truths for industrial use, framing him as the greatest inventor of his era and a key figure who blends invention with practical utility. The assessment cites C. D. Lanier’s July Review of Reviews sketch.
Sir Fillemup Frog, an English baronet and London Beefsteak Club member, bets he can reach the sun in ten days. He builds a silk suit, self-loading guns, and heavy columbiads, aiming for a 1,000,000 mph voyage. After 95 hours he lands on the sun, discovers it is a magnetic, iron world, and returns to Earth alive, though swollen from lack of air.
In a humorous quip from New York Weekly a revivalist questions if dancing leads to sin and a dancer concedes wicked thoughts arise when a partner steps on toes. The exchange satirizes morality talks around dancing and temptation.
Charles Dudley Warner recalls a Hartford Press typesetter who chose enlistment over continuing to set Warner's copy. The anecdote blends pride in duty with humor about editorial wordwork, reflecting wartime patriotism and Warner’s reputation as author of My Summer in a’ Garden.
A compact description of polar life detailing extreme cold and obstructive sea ice. It notes seasonal ice breakup, drifting floes, and the shifting routes that can open or close suddenly. Food sources are unreliable and travel by sea, dog sledge, or on foot faces grave drawbacks during autumn ice formation and the Arctic night.
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