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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1891
Page
5
A fragmentary verse piece juxtaposes dead and living states with religious imagery. It weaves a spectral horror scene on a coat lapel and a flirtatious pun about mirroring infection, ending with a print edition of verse and whimsy from a Wilson Mirror context.
A collection of old fashioned guidance for soups and dishes. Clam soup uses clams milk and butter while oyster stew mixes oyster liquor water and cream. Also includes boiled corned beef tomato with rice macaroni with cheese sponge cake and dream of celery soup with croutons and deliberate oven browning steps.
On Sunday night Eddie pesters his best girl for an hour and she quips that he is the bugliest boy Lever saw. He reacts in anger about to leave, then she snuggles closer, eyelash framing the scene as the moment shifts to a playful, intimate note.
A newly married man on St. Antoine Street praises his mother’s pie after dinner. His wife, who baked the pie herself, grows tearful as he insists the pie from his mother is superior. He compliments his mother's pie as the best, while the wife remains silent and hurt.
In a railcar a New Yorker chats with a farmer about forecasts of a hard winter. A sharp woman interjects, revealing she controls Noah’s affairs. The exchange ends with a sly wink about a frigid season for Noah as the narrator notes a cash-basis paper struggle and urges subscriptions.
A teenager recounts being forced to guide cattle alone on a remote lower range then seized by two bandits who plan to kill him. They lock him in a dry well as a storm rises, and he is rescued by Jim after hours of peril. Cowboys pursue the thieves. the narrator vows never to seek the cowboy life again.
A young man with a chestnut bell on his coat rides a Trenton train in a smoking car. He uses the bell to signal worn jokes from a farmer, prompting a testy exchange about old gags and the meaning of the bell before the youth exits abruptly. The piece ends noting The Progressive Farmer’s policy on credit publication.
The United States allows whiskey distilleries to store products worth 80 dollars for three years with the government effectively lending 36 dollars per barrel at 90 cents per gallon. Tax is due when produced, but storage occurs at government expense under supervision for three years. If demand for payment arose, the distiller would have 36 dollars less per barrel to use, while Uncle Sam would gain 36 dollars more, at no cost to the government.
A tramp offers to mow a lawn for ten cents and to swap with a slice of home made pie valued at forty cents. The woman negotiates, jokes about prices, and the tramp quips that financial genius is no good without capital, in a brief Washington Post vignette.
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