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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1896
Page
5
An excerpted poem by E New ry presents a grave, dreamlike meditation on death. The speaker longs for a comforting voice as prayerlike couplets drift between sorrow and reverie, invoking sleep and divine guardians. The text resembles a damaged late 19th or early 20th century verse page fragment.
A collection of old kitchen instructions for fruit cake cabbage salad and cakes. Includes butter milk milk and molasses batter ginger spice and soda ratios for bread like forms and notes on baking times for round layers and sheet cakes. Contains Minnehaha cake and coarse dough techniques with flavoring options and serving suggestions.
A collage of brief humorous exchanges and quips from various papers. From a playful misquote about a lamb to a comic dialogue on subtle deceptions, mottoing for burglars, matching horses, and a joke about literary fame. Includes a joke about Mexico independence day and July’s timing.
Louise Diener Lynnehurst once bright and beloved marries Grant Lynnehurst amid flowers and cheers. A cascade of misfortune follows: the husband dies in a mountain fall, Louise sinks into grief and isolation, her family dies, and she retreats to Lynde House with only a painting of her husband for solace.
Two young girls write to the editor from North Carolina towns asking and answering questions for the Young Folks column. Britun Backert of Littleton and Clyde Moss of Halifax County share answers about early inventions and Bible puzzles, each posing a question for readers.
A parade of letters from 14 to 11 year old readers in North Carolina request to join the Young Folks column. They praise The Progressive Farmer, share family details, ask riddles about Judge Samuel Spencer’s death by a turkey gobbler, and quiz on early U S railroads and historians.
A letter recalling George Washington’s 1789 election and a Leap Year query asks who will be the next president. A 12 year old Randolph County Allianceman’s daughter seeks to join the Young Folks column and poses Bible trivia questions about Kings and Isaiah and Psalms, plus a query about the Apostle spared from boiling oil in Rome.
A Raleigh NC reader claims two extra bottles of Rheumacide cured twenty years of joint and muscular rheumatism and indigestion. The letter says the writer weighed 140 pounds at start and 180 pounds after treatment. Bobbitt Drug Co Raleigh sole manufacturers offer one bottle by express for $1 or six for $5, via local druggists.
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