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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1893
Page
5
A frontier tale centers on Danl, Ben Wilkins, and Squire Higgins as two rivals settle who wins Mary Higgins through a pistol shoot with wadded bullets. Ben wins in truth, though Mary reveals the trick, and the trio ends with Mary choosing Ben while Danl retreats humbled.
A Detroit Free Press fragment recalls a narrator hugging a rifle as a man follows his wife to supper. The visitor learns the old man’s wife is the “new gal on the Fork” from the night Mary and Ben were married, tying a quiet, eerie domestic scene to past events.
A collage of brief humor and social snippets from multiple newspapers excerpts. Jests about education money and manners appear alongside children’s quips and witty exchanges. The items mix light irony with domestic scenes and early 20th century social commentary.
A humorous Life magazine quip notes a man who quits smoking after his doctor warns it will kill him. One week passes and the craving becomes unbearable, leading him to resume smoking, illustrating the difficulty of quitting nicotine.
During a storm a man with no umbrella mistook a stranger with a fine new umbrella for an acquaintance. He grabbed the umbrella and the stranger hurriedly returned it, noting the mix up. The anecdote, labeled true, offers a practical hint to avoid rain exposure.
Mrs. W. T. Southerlin recalls President Davis at Danville placing limits on hospitality. Davis refused a thousand dollar gold gift, saying he was old and would not need money long, and kept a gold pencil memento. The piece also recounts a separate Charleston style scam where a clerk in Washington is duped by a five-dollar bill fraud, ending with blank paper.
The text outlines ground surfacing as excellent with broken trap rock still superior. It envisions the road as a traffic bearing waterproof roof over a dirt path, slightly yielding under heavy loads but firm enough not to break.
A French journal says stray dogs seized by police are killed and their skins sent to a manufacturer. The skins are tanned by electricity in three to four days, replacing the usual seven to eight months. The resulting leather is claimed superior and highly admired in ladies boots and shoes for its softness.
A Baltimorean, James Carrigan, recalls the 1830s brush with President Andrew Jackson in Alexandria when Lieutenant Randolph boarded a party boat and pulled Jackson\"s nose. Carrigan relates Jackson\"s quip about fighting his own battles as Randolph fled, amid the crowd\"s sense of national affront.
A Detroit and a Chicago drummer swap quips aboard a slow Indiana line while recalling a Mississippi tale of a funeral procession. The anecdote centers on a branch road near a church graveyard where a passenger train delays to await the funeral. A buyer’s note follows, offering 80 cent bushels of peas from Joyner in Greenville, North Carolina.
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