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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1895
Page
5
A poem written in a hotel register reflects on personal fortune and responsibility. The speaker questions why one should advise others while neglecting one’s own fortunes and how public display invites judgment from humanity. The piece echoes a call for self-examination and prudent action.
Household recipes include egg curry baked eggs pickled eggs and egg rarebits with detailed steps and storage notes. The Easter pudding recipe combines jelly blanc mages lemon strands and shells for a table centerpiece. A Peck's Sun anecdote follows a stubborn seed salesman selling impractical can opener trees to a wary farmer ending with a comic exchange.
A quirky colonial passage shows an enthusiastic agent touting novelties including a pie plant that can grow mince and lemon pies while you wait. The old tiller contemplates the strange glitter in the soil as the agent unveils a strawberry plant illustration with sugar and flour pollen concepts.
The Washington Post notes the Capitol serves as a shelter for the homeless in cold weather with old men loitering in the galleries and Senate rotunda. They snack from pockets while others sleep through speeches, and the library hosts shabby readers drawn to blood and thunder novels and socialism, with Milton’s Paradise Lost glimpsed in a reader’s hands.
Household hints offer folk remedies and tips from past times. Recipes advise cleaning grease with cold coffee and using wheat flour for delicate laces while suggesting sun heat for scorched shirts. Other tips include beer for black silk and oil with turpentine for furniture polish. A bread making note links kneading to hand care. Salt water is proposed as a hair tonic and a daily scalp rub.
A blind man explains how he navigates streets by ear and sound cues from lamps, telegraph poles, and walls. He contrasts his experience with a seeing partner who uses hearing differently and notes the training required to learn this skill.
The guide explains that rose cuttings should be gathered after buds form and rooted in moist sand with minimal manure. Rooting is best June to October, with cutting stripped to one leaf and planted with the bud just above ground. Soil layer then sand, using a pointed stick to make holes.
Detailed methods for preparing cuttings, soil settling, and moisture management, plus tips on dew and sun exposure. Discusses handling, packing for transport, and maintaining moisture to prevent drying. Ends with reflections on roses, perfumes of flowers, and related moral observations.
A fragmented excerpt outlines demands for postal savings as safe deposits, government ownership of land to curb alien holdings, reclaiming land from rail and corporate owners, government control of transportation and communication including railways and telegraphs, and direct popular election of U.S. Senators with state districting.
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