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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1897
Page
5
A fragmentary lyric by Frank L. Stanton evokes woodland, harvest, and a prodigal’s kiss through memories of home. The speaker hears far singing of reapers and recalls a mother’s embrace, violets, roses, and gardens of beauty as nostalgia blends with Rural imagery.
A mix of kitchen recipes and light anecdotes from a vintage page. It offers corn muffins with cornmeal and milk, scrambled eggs with milk and butter, caramel Bavarian cream with gelatine and sherry, pineapple sherbet with pineapple juice, baked chowder with fish and potatoes, rhubarb fool with cream, and browned hashed potatoes. Also includes a short humorous quip about a boy praying for Sunday and a caller asking for a mistress.
Maj James Waite volunteers to scout for reinforcements to Fort Blank in Arizona during the 1870s. After treachery from guide Big Wolf, Waite endures thirst, heat, and a perilous canyon descent to reach a camp fire. He fights wolves and a brutal night, aided by Lt Tom Franklin and friends, earning the badge “For Valor.” In a separate Lincoln hospital vignette, the president writes a dying Vermont boy's mother and sits with him for two hours before death.
Letters from Moore County and SanFord Texas join a juvenile Q and A feature. Readers ask about biblical kinships and inventions, like Eli Whitney and the cotton gin, with multiple youth signatures and requests to join the column.
A column cites Ruth Ashmore’s June Ladies Home Journal view that modern girls demand far more from men than they can give. It argues sensational society sketches mislead, urging honesty in relationships to boost marriages and curb crime, noting many men turn to theft or single life due to unreasonable expectations.
An old couple quarrels over Dr Kineen whom they accuse of courting Mabel to marry her. A notice announces their marriage and a bill lists professional charges for his efforts to influence her. The scene centers on nerve and social scandal in a domestic setting.
The article contrasts Chinese and American practices noting opposite gender attire with men in skirts and women in trousers, long hair for men and short for women, dressmaking by men and burdens by women, dining orders, south-pointing compass, sideways ship launches, mounts from off side, reverse reading direction, top footnotes, surname first, and self-handshakes replacing greetings.
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