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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1895
Page
2
Fragmentary verse fragment behind curtain and track shadows
The text presents a garbled, poetic fragment describing a sunset behind a curtain, shadows on a track, and a dark valley near a river. Nonsensical sequences and misspellings obscure clear meaning or events. No identifiable people, places, or organizations are readable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tam
Editorial notes on state finance and local losses
State Treasurer Worth paid out 69000 last Saturday on 6 percent construction bond interest. A fire at Gov. Carrs farm destroyed seventy one bales of cotton with no insurance. Worth prevailed in court over attorney fees for Arrington committee. Sheriff T L Bandy paid 1000 into the State Treasury for 1895 taxes. Lincolnton Democrat cites The Progressive Farmer mocking bank failures, which we dispute as misfortune not gloating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Carr
Edgecombe County
Worth
Supreme Court
Arrington Committee
T. L. Bandy
Catawba County
Lincolnton Democrat
Progressive Farmer
Sound Money and Sound Water Demand Craze
The piece notes drought across the nation with wells and streams drying up and Kentucky facing water shortages. It riffs on railroads cutting trains in West Virginia for lack of locomotive water and mocks reformers demanding more water and money, urging patience before wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
West Virginia
Europe
America
Alliance Meeting at Bostic Prompts Membership Debate
A Shelby Aurora correspondent reports on the Alliance meeting in Bostic Cleveland County on October 26. The letter praises local members as stalwart landowners and farmers but cautions that poorer members may have dropped out statewide. It urges keeping up membership, recruiting, and mutual aid, noting wealthier farmers gain no more benefit. God helps those who help themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby Aurora
Alliance
Bostic
Cleveland County
Comeeaea
Farmers Congress at Atlanta backs silver plan
A so called Farmers Congress in Atlanta adopted resolutions favoring silver and a duty on foreign bullion. Delegates were named by state governors, often nonfarmers, in a display dismissed as an “Atlanta spectacle.” Farmers nationwide support free coinage of silver without foreign entanglements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Congress
Atlanta
Do Our Own Manufacturing Urges NC Shoe Factory
A Nashville Argonaut note cites The Progressive Farmer urging Farmers Alliance to fund Cary shoe factory startup. It notes 23,108 pairs of shoes shipped into North Carolina from Boston last month, illustrating wealth drained from the state as untanned leather is sent north and finished goods bought back at high prices. The piece argues for local leather, boots, harness, spun cotton, lumber, and iron manufacturing to boost prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Alliance
Cary
North Carolina
Boston
Nashville
Argonaut
The Dangers of the Bank Fraud and Embezzlement Era
An Arena excerpt by A R Barrett, once a government bank examiner, surveys bank wrecking and embezzlement in the last decade. It cites totals around 100 million dollars stolen, with yearly increases from 9 million in 1892 to 55 million in 1894 and 4 million by July 4, 1895, noting many cases remain undiscovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Barrett
Barrett
Trusted Thieves Hidden In Plain Sight
The text argues that the greatest threat to public funds comes from trusted officials and financial workers who misuse funds rather than petty burglars. It contrasts burglars with educated financiers who pose as honorable, robbing by misapplying entrusted money while maintaining a respectable facade.
Medico Legal Points on Physician Malpractice
Summary of general practitioner guidance on physician liability in malpractice cases. It lists criminal malpractice when gross ignorance or neglect causes serious injury, or when drugs or procedures are used to commit a crime or endanger the patient. Civil liability arises from ignorance or negligence, with expectations of local skill. gratuitous services do not absolve responsibility. It notes limits on withdrawal, final judgments for services, and contributory negligence by patients.
Landmark editorials on cotton, silver and prosperity
The Landmark critiques cotton price rises from five to nine cents and argues that free silver and Populists fail to shelter prosperity. It cites George Clark of Texas and claims Populist arguments collapse before real economic facts, highlighting contradictions in gold advocate reasoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landmark
George Clark
Texas
Free
North Carolina rejects Mahone era and predicts no Mahone in 1899
A North Carolina paper debates Ex-Senator Mahone of Virginia after his death, contrasting his Readjuster stance and social ostracism with his early achievements. It asserts political independence annoys partisan presses, criticizes Butler, and argues North Carolina will not have a Mahone in 1899 as partisans waste ammunition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahone
Virginia
North Carolina
Readjuster Party
FEV
F. V’s
Democratic Party
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
United States Senate
United States
News and Observer
Butler
Senator Butler
Subscribers affirm loyalty to Progressive Farmer and poetry praise
Letters from Caswell to Henderson Johnston and Jackson counties express support for The Progressive Farmer and A B Gwynn poetry. Subscribers send payments and praise, noting crops are good and faith in paper’s value persists despite political notes. One writer voices silver sentiment and coalition talk for upcoming election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Gwynn
J. P. Rainey
Caswell County
Progressive Farmer
P. T. Massey
Johnston County
Old Johnston
Jackson
B. M. Farmer
Jackson County
Frost bitten tobacco and mill expansion in county
Frost bitten tobacco signals harvest trouble while a lumberman Mr Dixon builds a large saw mill and moves Indian timber in the county. Editors and readers praise The Progressive Farmer as a valued paper and pledge continued support and subscriptions across multiple counties and names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixon
T. W. Keener
Swain County
R. Parker
Northampton County
Tam
Harry H. T. Deaton
Richmond County
W. T. Falls
Cleveland County
J. P. Sossaman
Mecklenburg County
Joseph Brown
Watauga County
J. C. Holland
Iredell County
W. P. Craven
W. B. Fieming
Warren County
W.B. Buie
Robeson
A. W. Farmer
Jackson
W. A. Graham
Gaston
A. ©. Shuford
Catawba
Henry Swing
Davidson
W. Andrew
Orange
Vindicator
Kansas
A. T. Findley
H. C. Farrell
Chatham
M.H. Cox
Randolph
G. F. Merritt
G. Ed. Kestler
Cabarrus
Herman Wilson
Guilford
A. O. Albritton
Lenoir
J. Z. Green
Union
C. Rich
Davie
Sound Money Men and Financial Failures Across Cities
A string of failures and assignments hits dry goods, boots and shoes, and banks as figures like Captain P C Carlton of Statesville and J Van Allen face scrutiny. Smaller brokers, manufacturers, and bankers in New York, Baltimore, Louisville, McGregor, and other locales see liabilities totaling hundreds of thousands to over a million dollars, with references to sound money and frauds including a bank robbery by Assistant Cashier Sewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. C. Carlton
Statesville
M. Rosenburg & Co
New York
James
Chambers
J. van Alien
Cleveland Campaign Fund
Italy
Col. Colt
Colt
D. W. Laws & Co
Facker Manufacturers
Baltimore
Henderson, Prell & Co
Sewell
First National Bank
McGregor
Texas
Bamberger, Bloom, & Co
Louisville
Grover
Erastus Wiman
R.G. Dunn & Co
Hell Closed Up in Missouri Saloon Tale
Two Missouri brothers ran a saloon. One brother traveled to Chicago for liquor and sent a telegram warning his partner that hell was closing as a revival raged. He then attended an Ingersoll lecture and reported back to stop liquor until a prominent Illinois citizen confirms the hell is closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Chicago
Bill
Jim
Col. R. G. Ingersoll
Illinois
Louis Globe
Massachusetts Shoe Profits Urge Immediate Action
A letter urges North Carolina brethren to study Horace Wadlin’s Massachusetts shoe industry figures and invest now. It argues Massachusetts earns vast profits from shoes, calls for local factories to start with $10,000 each by December 1, 1895, and stresses urgency to save enterprise and reduce dependence on eastern mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Maxchusetts
North Carolina
North Carolin
Brethren
J. W. Denmase
In Debt to The Progressive Farmer Readers Urged Payment
Thousands in North Carolina owe one dollar for this year’s Progressive Farmer. The notice pleads for prompt payment, warns against delaying, and urges subscribers who cannot pay to inform the publisher so the paper can be continued or stopped. It emphasizes that presses, printers, and costs require timely funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Progressive Farmer
Sollor
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