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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1897
Page
5
The fragmentary verse compares a bride to blooming roses and surrounding lilies, praising her beauty as eternal and radiant yet acknowledging time will fade appearances. The speaker, identified by initials U B Gwynn, laments the loss of beauty and memory, concluding with a note on a soul that will never decay.
A vintage kitchen note offers orange charlotte with milk crust, lemon pie, whole wheat bread, and mutton croquettes. Includes salmon curry with garlic, onion, curry paste, broth, and rice. Provides steps for jelly lining, baking, and serving with custard, Bechamel, or currant jelly. Contains several culinary variations and tips.
A London Tid-Bits excerpt features a French dialogue where a gentleman declines a marriage proposal saying he cannot consider it and will never marry, while the conversation notes the man’s vast fortune and asks what he will do with his wealth.
Mr Higgins and Mrs Higging discuss Molly and Deborah possibly leaving soon. Higgins notes Deborah started the fire with kerosene, observed in the fever context. Cleveland Weader provides the quotation.
An Indianapolis Journal snippet questions whether Adam could possess poetic talent, asserting poets are born, not made, reflecting a provocative literary aside. The brief remark contrasts natural gift with cultivated skill in a pointed, era echo.
Baxter visits Cragie's cut where Lettie C. Dolby, a determined daughter, proves a capable keeper after rescuing her crippled father during a severe blizzard. Her brave rope rescue saves the train crew and earns L. C. Dolby the post as keeper of section 27.
A Fourth Avenue woman recounts a burglar tale of a polite thief who entered her room to retrieve a carriage cloak. He apologizes for a mistaken home, claims to live nearby in a duplicate building, and admits wandering steps. He returns her purse and jewel box and leaves with mortified grace. The owner says the incident was worth the loss of her jewels.
Practical domestic advice covers boiling eggs for best texture and timing, turpentine uses from moth prevention to cleaning, copperas as a strong deodorizer, daily water changes for vessels, and carbolic acid disinfection mixed with boiling water to form a lasting solution.
HLM Andrews ships goods bought directly from manufacturers in large quantities and sells at a small profit. Small and large orders receive care and prompt attention. Write for catalogues and prices. one postal card may save you dollars.
A Alabama readers note school activity at Bethany Academy under Prof. F B Brown. A young contributor from Sharpsburg, North Carolina, praises the paper and proposes questions and answers about the Declaration of Independence, Methuselah, Virginia Dare, and the telegraph, wishing the magazine continued success.
A 13 year old reader from Wayne County asks about historical facts including the discoverer of the Mississippi River the first Hartford church the terms of J Q Adams terms author of the Declaration of Independence and the inventor of the first US railroad train. She asks when her letter might appear and signs off as a fan of The Progressive Farmer.
Mr Editor I present a set of questions for juvenile readers with brief answers. Topics include steam boat inventor Robert Fulton the Declaration of Independence born 1776 Virginia Dare Balboa Pacific Ocean year 1513 Montcalm’s life after wounding and navigation questions Boston name origin a large kettle seven stones high and Massachusetts cotton spindles share providing a compact reader quiz.
A miscellany notes human reading habits, census figures for Germany and France, and library sizes in France. It cites bank surveillance in France, savings bank ownership across the British Isles, and average deposits. It also mentions a tiny New York property sale, Russian wedding customs with river ducking, and a Lysertsky wedding tragedy from extreme cold.
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