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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1893
Page
5
A fragmentary poem laments the money trust advancing across hills and plains. It envisions misrule as it allegorically climbs Liberty’s steeple and clings to the flag, urging the people to stay awake and protect the red white and blue against encroaching darkness.
Household recipes include Brooklyn cookies with powdered sugar butter eggs soda milk and flour. Spice cake pudding with brandy or wine raisins nutmeg cloves cinnamon and sour cream. Lobster croquettes seasoned with cream lemon anchovy sauce and egg. Plain beef stew simmered long with vegetables and marjoram ketchup and flour. Cream sauce method uses butter flour milk salt white pepper and lemon juice with optional additions such as capers mushrooms celery or oysters.
A Civil War scene after Gettysburg shows a dead soldier seated by a tree, staring at an ambrotype of his children. Six men share silent pity, dig a grave, and mark the grave with the date July 3 1863, beneath a memory of family left behind.
In Saybrook Female Seminary a heated debate over Esther Lynn’s May queen role ends with a noblesse act. Mabel North defends Esther’s dignity, leading to Esther’s resignation and Mabel’s rise, while a May party gives way to commencement reflections and a dinner with love. The tale follows new bonds between Mabel and tutor John Dudley as they plan a life together in faith.
A collage of humorous vignettes and nautical reminiscences from 19th century American life. Jests about forgetful professors, a Scottish minister and pledge, a Detroit to San Francisco railroad riddle, a chance encounter with ham buyers, a shipboard escape tale, and an Irishman on Decoration Day provide light cultural snapshots and regional character.
Boston lawyer H W P praised for returning 200 in overpaid bank cashing railbond coupons. A millionaire client mocked the act saying banks never rectify errors. P replied that he must shave and would not face a scoundrel in the mirror each morning.
A South Carolina newspaper section reprints a contentious Edgefield Farmer quip about Tarheel courting signals using pine wood symbols. The civic note labels the slander as misrepresentation of local youth in Tar Heel country and shares the comic device as historical curiosity.
The N Y Times comments on Mr Voorhee's warning that no power could force a vote in the Senate and argues for a continuous Senate session to push the repeal through. It condemns the minority for stalling as dangerous and costly, urging public scrutiny to hasten accountability and end the delay. It notes the Senate leader claims endurance will force a result soon.
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