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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1895
Page
5
A collection of recipe notes featuring oatmeal bread and fairy toast with jelly, orange preserve and jelly, and late Bavarian cream. Includes steps for making yeast bread overnight, custards, preserved oranges, and chocolate cream desserts with occasional archaic spellings and typographical quirks.
In the young folks column a school boy asks readers to name the orator who cried Give me liberty or give me death during a famous speech. He invites truthful answers from readers to test knowledge of history.
An eleven year old YorKVILLE reader writes to praise the boys and girls column. He describes life on a 50 acre farm with parts in cultivation and summer fruit, noting his anticipation of starting school next week and family reading debates.
A call for educated ladies and bright youths to contribute letters on household duties child care cooking dress and family life. Writers may use fictitious names but must provide real names to the editor. Short letters preferred.
A late 19th or early 20th century editorial argues for modesty among women and duty to family. It contrasts Old World seclusion with American norms, urging young women to assist mothers and engage in household duties to gain respect, health, and a stable life before marriage. The piece closes with a signature-like reference Aunt Fanny.
Passage contrasts gendered behavior through ironic examples. It states a man relies on a hammer to drive a nail while a woman uses any tool available, from boot heels to brushes, and even corkscrews to open bottles, illustrating differing approaches to problem solving.
Minnie J. Conrad sketches gendered ritual contrasts in daily tasks from cork removal to letter handling, ink drying, and endings. The piece contrasts women’s meticulous care and planning with men’s brisk efficiency, asking which is superior in common behaviors.
A musician recounts a piano mouse melodizing on the strings and cites a past episode where mice danced to piano music in another dining room. The writer suggests ladies might host humane musical parties for mice as a playful way to catch them.
An excerpt from Popular Science Monthly describing how fruits aid digestion due to acids and pectin, with apples pears and other cultivated fruits highlighted. It notes digestive action from acids in the stomach and bile, mentions lemon juice for weak digestion, and ends with a Rural New-Yorker pitch inviting readers to subscribe.
Lawrence, with his defects, painted hands beautifully in his full length portrait of Kimble as Hamlet. The hands of Reynolds and Lawrence’s sitters varied, with drapery and accessories by Harlow. Montague Marks notes hands reveal much of a sitter’s character, citing Paul IV and other examples in Toe Art Amateur.
In an old country house a parlor becomes a personal project of recollection. The narrator describes moving a mirror, adorning a mantel with olive green fringe, crafting a paper candle from a sketch book, painting a rose bowl, and assembling a rug from a bear skin and improvised picture frames from a split hickory log.
In a Home and Farm note Sister Agnes describes crafting gilded frames that rival wood moldings, a piano study of Narcissus, a Marechal Neil roses study, small brackets, a table scarf, and gourds turned into pretty rose bowls with handles removed and painted, inviting others to try the projects.
A detailed platform calls for a government issued safe sound flexible currency with 2 percent tax cap, free silver and gold at 16 to 1, increased money supply per capita, graduated income tax, postal savings banks, and government ownership of telegraph and railroads. It also argues land reform reclaiming railroad and alien owned lands and requires direct statewide district elections for U S Senators.
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