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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1894
Page
5
A Chicago Record excerpt presents a mournful lyric where a bereaved parent contemplates loss and sin. Two visions cross the mind: a world of vice and a shepherd guarding a lamb, suggesting innocence retained amid grief. The speaker ends in bowed acceptance of divine will.
A recipe collection covers soft toast adoptions and hash finishes, rice pudding, gravy soup, and roast goose with detailed steps. The second piece profiles James Whitcomb Riley, detailing his rise from Kokomo Tribune poems to wider recognition, his persona, and impact on American poetry and lectures.
A compact portrait of James Whitcomb Riley linking his Indiana upbringing in Greenfield to his later fame as The Hoosier Poet. The verse-loving lad recalls farm life, family, and a playful self view as the farming era shaped his sensibilities.
In a wild beast show the grooms live among dangerous animals and risk daily danger. Lion tamer William Philadelphia survives a deadly strike from Black Prince and continues the act, smiling through injuries and prodding the lion to perform again. Mies Helen Gladstone named governor of Fifeshire county school.
A rural tale recalls Deacon Wallace’s strictly run home and his son Hiram as a yellow cow turned drinker. The cow nibbles cider apples, bucks, and evades all attempts to drive her, ending with Deacon selling the beast after a farcical scene. The minister notes Deacon’s consistency in his beliefs about animal discipline.
A Buffalo Express item recounts Sandy McLean, once a lawyer, rising at Chicago papers then moving from the Tribune to the Herald. He lands a sensational exclusive for the Herald, writes it thinking it his own, loses the scoop to Tribune, and is fired by the Herald before returning to the Tribune, where he remains.
A thoughtful woman weighs whether farm families should educate daughters. She argues educated women bring resilience and usefulness to farm life versus treating education as ornament. The piece cites rural attitudes, practical aims of schooling, and mentions figures tied to the Rural New Yorker. Also notes England climate advice for a female reader and Connecticut court rulings on board for trunks. Queen of the Netherlands and Jefferson Davis family notes appear amid broader society snippets.
One third of immigrant dentists hail from Germany while England and Germany supply half of American actors. Cuba supplies many cigarmakers and tobacconists. Windsor Castle has been a royal residence 784 years. Berlin notes women on the police force and Girard Kansas lists three ladies on the Board of Education led by Mrs. Alice Alderman. Princess of Wales portraits reach 200,000 sold in England last year. The polar expedition finds ice thickness averaging six thousand feet north of 75 degrees. Empress Eugenie to depart Farnborough for Mentone.
Folkloric letter from T B Os Sykes M L Post Skrip notes Obediah writes from Youngown Co with plan to keep letters to Sally Ann in Farmer newspaper. He asks if his letters will print when he goes to Raleigh for the coming Legislature and mentions hog killing, rural life, and political belonging.
A collage of humorous lines and dialogue snippets from various papers and voices. The pieces range from fashion jab at a tight dress to reflections on marriage and Congress, plus social quips about pranks, mustaches, prayers, and a regional dialect exchange about keeping insects out.
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