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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1897
Page
7
Christian Life column by Alice Pettus Dillard urges piety and steadfast faith as readers reflect on Christ’s sorrowful path. It contrasts worldly temptations with Bible driven nourishment and calls for personal virtue and active good works in the community.
The Watchman notes Dr. T L Cuyler argues for delaying prohibition's legislative push, urging moral suasion and public conscience to curb drink. He cites Maine and Francis Murphy campaigns, praises past temperance momentum, and urges communities to close dram dens through sustained moral effort.
A plea for active world missions, urging believers to be obedient instruments to God’s eternal purpose. The text decries unbelief and apathy, criticizes retrenchment by mission agencies, and urges decisive expansion and unwavering dedication to bearing salvation to the earth. Quoted from A. T. Pierson in the Missionary Review of the World.
Norfolk and Chattanooga Limited trains run daily from Raleigh to Norfolk via Salisbury Morganton Asheville Hot Springs Knoxville with connections at Durham Greensboro and Salisbury for multiple points North South and West. Daily 11 45 a m and 3 40 p m Limited trains plus local services to Goldsboro Wilmington Fayetteville New Bern Morehead City and Raleigh sleeper cars Greensboro Raleigh connections Winston Salem Charlotte Atlanta and Augusta Jacksonville Savannah Charleston and Florida. Includes sleeping cars Raleigh Greensboro and double daily Raleigh Charlotte Atlanta service.
A dense 1896 price sheet from the Farmers Alliance lists groceries hardware seeds and farm supplies. It features Cuba Porto Rico and New Orleans imports, sugars syrups canned goods oils and tobacco products along with farm tools plows cultivators wagons and stoves. Also noted are Alliance branded guano lime and chatty notices on agents prizes and orders.
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