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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1897
Page
5
Poem fragment urges patience with the living and the dead. It reflects on praise and fault, mortality, and the hope stars or stones will soften memories after death. The voice contemplates grace, forgiveness, and gentle judgment, ending with a note about love and a distant herald.
A Western Plowman fragment shows a son faulting his mother for pudding and cake, wishing for biscuits like his mother used to bake. She fails to wash dishes or make stew, and even his stockings. She endures his mockery until time for rest.
A scanned excerpt presents a household bake and cook guide listing Sally Lunn items such as muffins with eggs, milk, flour and melted butter, Rice Muffins with rice and milk, Beef Croquettes using cold meat and brown sauce, Roasted Round and Steak with olive oil vinegar coating, and a Caramel Custard made from sugar, milk, eggs and vanilla with caramel sauce.
Practical advice stresses home priorities for child character. It urges kindness in discipline, teaches obedience without vengeance, and advocates teaching money sense, industry, temperance, and honesty.
Clarence H. Poe recounts Dr Rankin and a frightened servant Jim Dane drawing him to the Haunted House. The doctor fights fear atop a tree as a spectral figure grows, later discovers the “ghost” is a circus bear in disguise. The tale ends with Rankin’s romance and a comic family reconciliation.
A domestic tale shows Mr Bridie frustrated that his wife won’t mend his clothes. Mr Norris advises and imitates with a ruse to force a mend, concluding with the wife repairing the shirt. A second fragment recalls two Marshallton men swapping horses over a wheat-for-barter pact that ends in mutual amusement as they exchange wheat anyway.
A Detroit Free Press interview quotes a married man recalling how he met his wife. He describes growing up in the South amid family feuds and social rivalries, meeting as children and falling in love on the mountain, signaling a courtship marked by family tensions.
In Narbonne France a man dining in the open air terrace counted money and dropped a hundred franc note into his soup. He fished it out with a fork and set the bill on the tablecloth to dry. A gust of wind then blew the note away.
A table owner fled after his meal. a hungry wandering dog, attracted by the soup-soaked paper, snatched the bill. The dog left with the edible fragment, and the owner, enraged, smooth talked to recover the name on the collar. A Narbonne court ruled the dog’s owner must pay one hundred francs restitution.
A young Philadelphia law student wins a calendar case for his fiancée s father via a clever plea and is told he can t have the daughter. The judge confers mock advice about the money made and ends with a wry verdict on merit vs. fortune. Also featured are cold humor anecdotes from a Boston grammar school graduation and a new long-range signaling device by Lt Wise.
A reader asks editors to publish a Bible math riddle about scholars in a Sunday school. The puzzle multiplies transforms biblical counts and arithmetic steps to yield the unknown student total, inviting replies from friends or cousins.
Mr Editor writes from Orange County N C about a school out for the summer. He notes a recent concert led by Miss M Fannie Kimon, regular rainy days, and Communion at Little River church with Rev H B Bradshaw and Rev A Currie present. He poses math and alphabet questions before signing M E TaBulag Allison.
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