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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1894
Page
5
A garbled OCR fragment reflects a poetical reminiscence of travels and homeward thoughts. It mentions Nort State farms, joyful memory of a place once free, and a return from a music event associated with Haverstown-like locality, with obscure dates and names.
A faded home cooking page offers step by step instructions for breads puddings and savory dishes. It covers bread crumb bread flapjacks corn dishes milk drinks clam soup curry balls milk biscuits baked salmon and related kitchen techniques with measurements and serving tips.
A Tau Progressive Farmer piece urges moving beyond past creeds toward truth and independent thinking. It rails at conformity, praises Luther, Franklin, Edison, and calls for minds free of old shackles to shape the coming century, noting life as a four act drama and the peril of relying on opportunity for greatness. TO BE CONTINUED.
A Kentucky office seeker in Washington, dejected and penniless, asks a railroad passenger agent for a homebound pass. The colonel refuses, but finally lends a single week special to the desperate man who still proclaims himself nobody.
A Boston Globe anecdote recalls a Hong Kong lady hiring a Chinese cook and shortening names. The cook mishears and assigns playful Anglicized names John and Tommy, highlighting language misunderstandings and nickname humor.
A humorous old tale aboard a branch railroad in Alabama unfolds as a train halts for a quarrelsome man named Tom who brags of stopping the train for his ailing wife’s toothache. He boasts of various misdeeds while the conductor and passengers react, ending with a defiant vow to pull his wife’s tooth with a log chain.
A Virginia pair traveling to Marietta learn of a viewer who claimed to lay a road and found a curved route shorter than the straight line. The tale, recounted by Youth's Companion, shows how the crooked path went around hills making the round distance less than the direct route.
Major C P Leonard recalls the Signal Service officer atop Pike's Peak living in a stone beacon bolted to rock. In winter he is cut off from all contact with the world with snow as his only water source and ascent or descent impossible. His duties are light, mainly occasional inspections of the interments.
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat description recalls a observer perched above Colorado Springs. From his telescope he views the surrounding country clearly on clear days. He notes distant houses twenty miles away and summer scenes of town residents, detailing shirts and white dresses amid snow around the peak.
A dialogue from the Agent's Herald features a traveler and a commercial representative. The man jokes about infrequent homecomings and recalls eloping in a strange town only to discover his wife already exists in his life through the firm. The piece uses humor to reflect work travel and marriage misunderstandings.
Neatly catalogued tidbits note scientific and social curiosities. Facts include German jury verdicts, machine made sandwiches, transcontinental cable traffic, Rev Sir John Warren Hays born 1799, blasting slag used as fertilizer in Germany, electors tally 13 500 000, temperance education and manual training, Sonoma county railroad on stumps, toad tongue orientation, Maine liquor sales 1893 130 812 29, 22 percent illness causes linked to temperance, 4030 Canadian criminals convicted with 132 abstainers, Roll of Honor NH towns free from intoxicants, Baltimore forming an Abstinence Club.
A compact survey links famed figures across eras to lifelong miseries. Dante faced exile, Byron endured club foot, Coke feuded, Johnson suffered nearsighted scars, Charlemagne leg ulcers, Palestrini poverty, Selden imprisonment, Tasso madness, Bacon greed, Mohammed epilepsy, Le Sage poverty, Peter the Great rage, Mary I unhappy, Milton blindness, Cervantes creditors, Julius Caesar weak digestion and epilepsy, Cowper lifelong insanity.
Five plausible explanations for the dollar sign are discussed, including origins from the initials U S, a modified eight from the piece of eight, the Pillars of Hercules with scrolls, a monogram of H S and 8, and P with 8 from peso duro. A source note ties the symbol to Spanish coins and the thaler tradition.
In a Detroit Free Press item a man at a carriage parade, described as a display of wealth, asks what it signifies. A bystander explains it as a parade of fashionable classes, prompting the unemployed remark that sparks reflection on social status during the event.
Prince Peter of Oldenburg, head of imperial colleges for girls, investigates complaints about food at the Sominig convent. He arrives near dinner, halts soldiers with a kettle, asks for a spoon, and tastes the soup, declaring it dirty water after learning the soldiers had cleaned the laundry.
A former Chicago speculator moved to an Iowa town, organized stock companies and a bank, deposited investors’ funds in his own bank, then defaulted. Sufferers sought recovery and confronted him in a lavish apartment as he claimed total loss except his wife’s property. He offered a strange proposition amid the wreck.
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