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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1894
Page
5
A damaged OCR fragment from Ladies' Home Journal offers a garbled poem about a sweetheart. It mentions wreaths, trees and vines, age, and enduring affection, but the text is heavily corrupted with stray characters and misreads.
A jumble of culinary instructions offers guidance on making wYtion broth butter sauce grilled fowl and macaroni with cheese. It also explains proper potato rolling and emphasizes careful timing for prime potato texture plus a note on names and a subscription prompt.
The narrator argues wealth concentration harms society and cites Monoply influence and unfair laws. He recalls experiences with rich churchgoers and a poor woman jailed for bread, urging labor respect, better rural policy, and farmer self sufficiency.
Items of interest recount a tobacco plant yielding 360000 seeds, Ena a living volcano for 250000 years, Antiphilus the first caricaturist in 332 BC, Venetian glass mirrors emerging in the 13th century, and the Mississippi draining 1244000 square miles over 4500 miles, comparable to the basins of the Ganges Indus Brahmaputra and Irrawaddy.
A bystander recalls four men boasting of dog encounters on a country town platform. A deer hound breaks loose, scattering the group as none of the bravado proves effective against the dog. The tale ends with a stray joke about a Rochelle wedding and synagogue expulsion.
An aged Texas veteran near death recalls his daring days as Sam Houston’s scout and Jack Hayes’s trailblazer. As he mutters of no quarter at San Jacinto and Alamo memories, a tender memory of “Little May” softens his features before death.
A Worcester temperance meeting relays a tale of a man who swore off drinking yet failed to resist a saloon visit at night. His wife confronts him with scenes of stumbling, a latchkey, a carpet, a fly, and a bonnet purchase, ending with the claim he kept his pledge.
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