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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1896
Page
5
Fragmentary verse by GWYNN with surreal imagery about breeze, hills, birds and renewal. Includes garbled lines and misspellings such as Nea verdure teems with display and stray letters that obscure full meaning. No clear event or publication context is identifiable.
A collection of old time kitchen notes with many desserts and a soup recipe. Sugar cookies use sugar butter sour cream eggs and flour. Chocolate pudding and lemon pie provide rich toppings and finishes. Rhubarb bake and cherry pudding describe fruit desserts. Vegetable soup lists lettuces turnips carrots onions cucumber and artichoke with stock herbs salt pepper brandy and lemon.
A St Louis Republic remark quotes Judge Murphy calling a newspaper man the meanest foe he ever faced in court. The defamed reporter allegedly played seven up with a young lady and used a jack of trumps blushing cue to predict her lover, prompting the judge to warn of theft or libel.
Investigators in Roentgen ray work warn of misdirected attention from people claiming to have bullets or foreign bodies in their bodies. A Cleveland case recalls a letter asking a local scientist to locate a bullet remotely and to send his apparatus, with a jokey reply proposing the patient be sent in instead.
An oral history style account describes a Christmas wedding in North Carolina featuring a large crowd of black and white guests. The ceremony on a porch, humorous mishaps, a rustic minister, and lively feasting with hunting dogs and revelry mark the event. The piece reflects contemporary stereotypes in a vivid, anecdotal narrative.
Eugene Secor reports in American Bee Journal that a formic acid preparation delivered by bee sting acts as a powerful stimulant. A single hypo dermic dose allegedly energizes a lazy person instantly, enhancing speed, endurance, and physical feats regardless of injection site.
A humorous nocturnal dialogue among bicycle parts in a dark basement ends with the Bell promising to furnish the ring for a possible wedding. The odd scene is followed by an unrelated Otis-style medical advert offering Catarrh Cure with a bold promise of a $100 payoff for cures, credited to J Cheney & Co. and Toledo.
An old man advises Joshua to be polite and diligent, stressing that success comes from steady effort rather than wealth. The boy questions riches, while the bee metaphor underscores constant work as the path to satisfaction, with a Detroit Free Press line noting someone won’t sit down on him.
A collage of humorous snippets from early 20th century newspapers and magazines. The jokes feature wordplay on marriage, cigars, four leaf clovers, stepping ladders as bicycles, and social roles. A traveling man delays a train amid playful taunts, while political satire targets the People’s party and Taubneck.
A North Carolina paper recounts the Young Folks column's mission to publish reader letters despite delays, praises historical questions, and shares sample contributions from CorTiz Gurkin, C H Suerpar, L W Parker, and others. Subscribers’ children ask about early American history, telegraphy, and figures like Raleigh, Garfield, and Henry Lawson Myatt.
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