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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1897
Page
5
Johanna Ambrsius writes in American Cultivator about a mother’s pride in her son. She contrasts his vitality with other boys and imagines his future growth under apple trees as sunlight warms his eyes. The poem evokes family, nature, and the bond between mother and child across years.
A collection of kitchen tips and recipes including cranberry pie filling with vanilla, a brownie mix with nuts, potatoes on the half shell baked and mashed with egg and parsley, and guidance on preparing mackerel for grilling. Also includes general cooking advice and minor typographical errors typical of the era.
A jumble of wry vignettes from a rural hall quip at emancipation food and fashion. A Scotch farmer jokes that sax hours rain would have helped, a bicyclist outsizes horses to move ambulances, and a servant requests shooting a dog. A French traveler and Tartars add featherweight jokes.
Curious facts describe long lived icebergs lasting centuries and costly railways, bans on photographing women in China, eight hundred year old apple trees, Shakespeare’s plays with line counts, rapid mushroom growth, Duke of Richmond’s pension, Norwegian fjord clarity, depth observations, New York paper lifespans and losses, pen history, and global population density figures by region.
A passage quotes a boy’s curious queries during a day on a Sound steamer. He asks if the steamer’s noise defines it, whether the Sound water is as wet as the Atlantic, what makes water wet, how many could drown in such depths, if a mother fish would fish for worms ashore, whether a whale could crush an oyster by resting atop it, if dampness causes clam malaria, whether drowning hurts, and queries about a man with gold on his coat being a powerful father figure.
A reader complains about a joke theme of women going through husbands pockets while a husband defends humor as drawing the line at the impossible. The column cites a Chicago Post quote about such humor and notes lamps hints. It outlines lamp trimming, avoiding overfilling, wick control, weekly burner cleaning, and proper extinguisher use in duplex lamps.
In a Puck quote a boy refuses to reveal fishing spots saying readers should find them themselves. Pareen Goodman asks where boys go fishing on Sunday, while a Bad Boy retorts with defiant banter about not sharing “snaps.”
A man recounts a near miss with a live street wire that saved his horse drawn carriage from a fatal plunge. The horse bolted toward a drawbridge as the wire across its path delivered a shocking but lifesaving defeat, leaving him grateful for the hazard's odd mercy.
A household with five children ages five to fifteen teaches careful book care and private ownership. Each child has a plain four to five dollar bookcase, curtains from worn dresses, and strict rules on borrowing. Books are carefully covered and named on cover and first page to keep ownership clear.
Poultney Bigelow recounts a Cape Colony visit where President Kruger deflects verbose diplomats. A duke claims England roles, then Kruger grunts and finalizes with I was a cattle herder, ending the interview.
A household guide from J. D. Cowles in American Agriculturist outlines a simple lime water preparation. Use one teacup of clean lime with two quarts of water, settle, decant, and bottle. The first water is kept for cleaning vessels. the clear liquid serves as a mouthwash and aid for indigestion, with additional doses for children and milk digestion.
The article argues that infants sleep heavily in early weeks, but once school starts, parents reduce sleep for children. By ages ten to eleven, eight or nine hours are insufficient. ten to eleven are needed. Youth through twenty should get nine hours, adults eight. It calls insufficient sleep a crying evil of the day.
A playful exchange between pigs quotes darker implications about meat and footballs. The characters discuss being used for pork and skins in a tongue in cheek line attributed to Puck.
Mrs. Blank of Detroit, a pretty 45 plus woman with a married daughter and two grandchildren, encounters a stylish man at the Detroit depot as she heads to Mount Clemens to visit her grandson. He flirtatiously asks her travel plans, she replies she is bound for Mount Clemens, and the doors burst open as he blends into the street crowd.
An elderly Mackinac Island resident, over 90, reveals his sole ambition is to become mayor of Mackinac Island. He recalls nearly winning last year, blaming a sick boat worker who voted, a decision he calls fair but regrets. Now he notes the dockhand is still employed nearby.
A young woman, Beatrice Jones, study of garden design evolved into a successful professional career. She attracted initial skepticism from friends who later supported her after she secured several large contracts abroad and locally.
A wealthy young Philadelphian and an associate acquired rugged Bar Harbor property near the Vanderbilt Coles and Kennedy estates. They have enlisted Miss Jones to beautify the extensive holdings, signaling development and upscale renovation plans for the area.
A reader asks about biblical wording and covenant sealers while a 12 year old seeks space in the youth section. Other snippets include a Confederate general killed by his own men in the war, a bachelor remark, a graveyard joke, and a Progressive Home quip about opening mills versus mines.
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