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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1895
Page
5
Fragmentary poem lines discuss nature, labor, and a cryptic citation of The Gold Bug and a pest. Mentions Cleveland Sherman and adaptisteran bonds, with unclear context about farming and endurance amid hardship.
Cookbook style directions for asparagus rolls with milk sauce and stuffing, plus an asparagus and salmon salad, a bread pudding recipe, and a romantic dialogue scene between Adolphus and the New Girl. The text notes popular English method and includes details on quantities, ingredients, and steps.
A London lord famed for loud snoring is teased by a railway passenger who asks about wealth. The tale widens to a Philadelphia case where a wife seeks divorce for cruelty due to snoring and a quirky remedy of olive oil and mustard restores family peace.
A reader column recounts an encounter crossing into South Carolina and the misimpression of the state’s color on maps. It includes a humorous exchange about whist etiquette with advice for social play and pairing with a partner, ending with a mock set of rules to ensure fair turns at cards.
A scanned notice urges immediate attention to children who sleep with mouths open. It warns that chronic catarrh may develop and links mouth breathing to nasal organ problems. Early, persistent treatment is necessary to correct the issue.
The text explains roasting a goose with a mashed potato dressing seasoned with onion sage salt and pepper. It instructs stuffing the goose, roasting two hours baste with its drippings and using the pan giblets to make a gravy by simmering neck liver and gizzard with water and spices then thickening with flour.
A fragment from a historical reflection describes women who refrain from marriage due to lifelong obsessions or inherited patterns. It portrays a woman retreating into books and languages, eventually losing grasp on reality, and others clinging to a family home or a single surname despite love or wealth.
Advice urges placing home as priority over ambition and influence. It argues that a strong home life cultivates truth, charity, and intellect, producing individuals who can lead and bless the nation. The piece invokes Beecher and emphasizes domestic virtue as higher honor than public power.
Instructions for a quick doughnut batter begin with heating fat in a kettle then mixing flour salt bicarbonate nutmeg and creamed butter with egg yolks and stiff egg whites. Sour milk is added to make a soft dough which is rolled shaped and fried promptly.
A collection of brief items notes topics from Jerusalem hospital plans to a 4000 year old Babylon brick stamps. Mentions London Jews funding a Jerusalem hospital, flowering plants species counted, Mrs. Warner praised as a mature musician, Moscow foundling asylum intake, naval training for boys, plant reactions to substances, Eva Ingersoll and Col Ingersoll family, Sahara troop plans by France, England’s oldest epitaph, chaste mimosa sensitivity, a Chinese night blooming flower, Sir Donald Stewart visiting the U.S., Arctic aurora sensations, 1828 English man’s skin tanned after hanging, and Babylon bricks 4000 years old still sound.
The article argues that success comes from hard work and study. It cites examples of women who learned table setting, color harmony, and food knowledge while employed, rising to value in stores, mills, and kitchens. It emphasizes good sense and industry as equal to talent.
The Railway Review credits Janos Irinyi, a Hungarian student at Vienna’s Polytechnik, with inventing phosphorus matches in 1835. After studying chemistry he allegedly created matches by combining glue, phosphorus, and lead oxide, then dipped wood slivers in sulfur. He reportedly sold the patent for about $3,000 to a merchant named Romer.
A Philadelphia Record item notes Johnnie’s humorous future state remark as a Bismark teacher concludes David’s tale of 3,000 years ago. Machias Union records a cherub’s memory quip after a tale. A Life column collects jokes about honesty, lies, and heaven with family references to God and George Washington.
An elderly man on a Broadway car quizzes a passenger about pickpocketing. The would be thief reveals a ruse to test the other man’s honesty, confessing he pretended to suspect him to see if he would fumble for a watch and wallet. The scene ends with humor as the pair laugh at the ruse.
A collection of wry quotes and humorous exchanges from 19th century papers. A judge questions an assault vic tim about the incident while readers laugh at gender roles and domestic life. A French official’s cab fare bill leads to dismissal and prosecution.
A杂 collection notes Margaret Young as queen of a Manian island group, India’s water access expansion in 1865, British troop deaths falling from 69 to 15 per 1000, and Alicante’s lunatic asylum funds exhausted with a tour by 23 patients drawing crowds.
Jas H Wright Carlton organizer for Sixth district includes Wake Durham Orange and V ine. Dawn F Populli organizer for Seventh district Cumberland Robeson Bladen Columbus and Brunswick. Geo W Flake organizer for Eighth district Harnett Moore Richmond Anson and Stanly. J. Hunter organizer for Eleventh district Rowan Cabarrus Gaston Lincoln Iredell. First district includes Currituck Camden Pasquotank Perquimps Chowan Gates Hertford. J I Babbb organizer for Ninth district includes Randolph Chatham Moore Caswell Alamance. Fourth district Don C Sanders Burgaw organizer counties Wayne Duplin Onslow Pender New Hanover and L ampe. Twelfth district includes Alexander Wilkes Alleghany Ashe Watauga Mitchell and Transylvania. A W Parker organizer for Twelfth district Sylva. Polk and Henderson Clinton Parhansivania.
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