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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1896
Page
5
Fragmented verse asks if a coming woman can handle chores and tasks in rough outdoors. Repeated questions imagine her steadiness with rain, wagon, fishing, water, drying crossings, woodwork, and domestic duties amid a rustic setting. The verse reads like a playful social test.
A garbled passage imagines a coming woman performing care and labor tasks. She will sit when seated, offer her umbrella in rain, help in wagons, fish with a look, and draw water. The text blends mythic references and scattered images of domestic and communal duties.
The New York Ledger advises a balanced, light approach to meals and rest. It warns that overeating damages health, recommends lighter dinners in warm weather, and favors vegetables and fruits as seasons dictate.
The piece discusses dried fruits like apples peaches prunes prunnelles raspberries and blackberries prepared by long soaking and slow cooking with sugar for perfection. It cites a Missouri paper warning a jury about speaking ill of a woman while emphasizing her purity and moral influence in society.
A city editor recalls Jack Jones a sixteen year old filing clerk who dreams of journalism. He starts as an office boy at the Daily Globe, endures hard work, and after a wrecked excursion train saves a report and earns a promotion to reporter with full pay while recovering. The tale ends with the editor praising Jack and his mother weeping.
A Cumberland boy from Spano North Carolina writes to Mr Epior asking about Christ’s appearances after the crucifixion. He mentions hauling wood from near Fayetteville and reading the paper. He asks how many times Christ appeared on earth after the crucifixion.
A 15 year old student from CaLpwett Inst North Carolina writes to praise the paper and its young folks column. He describes his studies in grammar reading spelling geography and arithmetic and ends with a question asking which is the shortest verse in the Bible.
In Exirasetu City North Carolina a young reader writes for the young folks column praising The Progressive Farmer and Aunt Fanny's cleanliness piece. The letter notes interest in John A. Miller’s question about the cotton gin inventor Whitney in 1793 and ends with a quoted saying about the heart and head.
A pair of letters from young readers ask Mr. Eprvor for space in the paper's young folks column. Sallie Aldridge, 11, of Haw River, asks where tobacco first grew and its original use, while Kirpeg, Randolph County, 14, asks when the great charter reached Virginia and how many enslaved people were sold.
A 16 year old girl writes to the Young Folks column explaining she and her father read The Progressive Farmer and will answer Paul Liles' question about NC's irreparable loss in 1831, the burning of the capitol, and she asks a Bible query about how many times cheese is mentioned.
A farmer's daughter 15 writes to the young folks column. She praises the magazine and answers a reader question about which colony used the Bible as its guide. She recalls General Cornwallis's surrender on October 19 1781 and asks when General Jackson seized Pensacola.
A reader, a farmer's boy, praises the paper and reads State news and Birkins. He asks two questions: who first used the phrase government of the people by the people for the people, and whether George Washington was ever wounded in battle.
A farmer’s daughter aged 14 writes of school, papers, and hope for success in a Sunday school prize. A 12 year old from Dusnam and Louisia Pendergrass ask about scripture and a chaperon. Mr De Style offers fashion advice on shopping without supervision.
A Florida youngster in Bushnell asks about Bible reading and favorite pictures after declaring ties to the Tar Heel state. He mentions turpentine work, reads The Progressive Farmer, and seeks to answer a question posed by Lizzie Fishel in the young folks column.
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