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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1895
Page
5
A poem by R Penstock exhorts Mecklenburg to rise for freedom as ships move from Pasquotank to Cherokee. It demands independence, recalls 1775 bloodlines, and pledges no submission to masters while urging the people to reclaim liberty and homeland with ardent fervor.
A collection of practical household hints covers cleaning windows with spirits of turpentine, cooking tips for cakes and bread, seed removal for raisins, and cooling bread properly. It also advises vinegar for tenderizing meat, using a notch stick to remove picture hooks, and methods to whiten tanned hands with a wax and oil cream. Subtips discuss leather conditioning, glove care, and safe storage practices.
A correspondence warns mothers that indulgence breeds rude children and urges parental discipline. It argues the father often misses home duties, leaving mothers to enforce home laws with proper spirit and timing, asserting corporal punishment is essential early on to shape behavior and prevent future misconduct.
A Boston Transcript tale recounts Si Stover rushing for a doctor when his wife neared death. She awakens and improves miraculously, then avoids praising Widder Stories, while her look at Si unsettles him enough to flee the house at times.
A practical guide describes sewing a square door pocket organizer for busy homes. Made from striped bed ticking, it features a background with multi row pockets, large bottom pockets, evenly spaced strips, and blue braid edging stitched to a fabric background for a neat, secured hanging unit. Three
A collage describes sewing a catch-all pocket system with sturdy loops and tapes to hang and organize items. It includes mock quotes and snippets about household clippings from humorous notes and punchy witticisms shared in periodical snippets.
A children’s guide explains a simple fire illusion using saltpeter solution on paper. The trick traces a drawn line as a tiny glow travels along, creating a pattern or animal before dying out. Prepare papers, reveal patterns, and perform a small invisible show for friends.
A ten year old Annie Malone of Wilmington North Carolina asks Mr Borror to publish letters from children. She explains she attends school near the Atlantic Ocean, her father is a farmer who enjoys The Progressive Farmer, and she vows to write again.
From Asheville North Carolina a schoolboy under fourteen invites papers to publish letters. He recalls living near Asheville in the mountains for six years and mentions seeing Mr George Vanderbilt's palace and grounds, noting Vanderbilt's wealth came from outside the farm. He signs Albert J Forest.
A historical vignette recalls a Massachusetts boy Dwight L Moody who as a six year old drove cows for a cent a day to help his widowed mother after his father died. The tale traces his humble beginnings on the eastern Massachusetts side of the Connecticut River near the New Hampshire line and notes his later home and seminary nearby.
A Chicago dispatch reports Nathan Laden of Menominee Wisconsin marrying Mary Frank, manager at Siegel Cooper Co. handkerchiefs, after a playful proposal about lifelong purchases. They wed at the county clerk’s office following the playful exchange.
Dr. Symes highlights goose grease as a potent household remedy cited in the Caplin Journal of Medical Science. A chronic influenza case improved with repeated oil applications, while liniment alone was less effective. The text notes penetrating qualities, benefits for muscular rheumatism, sprains, marasmus, and as a nutritious abdominal rub for children. warns against overuse on guns due to deep penetration.
A historic cooking note describes Liver Croquettes by baking calf liver on brown paper, cooling, cutting, seasoning, mixing with egg and cracker meal, shaping, and frying in butter. It also covers Sturrep Porators by baking potatoes, stuffing skins with butter parsley and hot milk, then browning. Rice and Apples describes filling a dish with rice apples and a milk rice mixture, layering with apples, and baking to a fine color.
A historical platform demands national currency issued by the government, with 2 percent tax, free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, and per capita money supply of at least 50 dollars. It calls for postal savings banks, land reform reclaiming excess holdings by corporations, and government ownership of essential transportation.
A call for direct election of United States Senators by district vote and a public sale notice for six Wake County farms in North Carolina. Auction at Raleigh County House Door at noon, November 14, 1895. Trustee Ernest Haywood lists lands adjoining Neuse River with varying acreages and adjacent owners.
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