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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1894
Page
5
Fragmented lines reference Great Scott and the nation, invoking the ship of state and Grover. Phrases hint at revenue, coal and iron, and political figures like Blount and Gresham, in a war era voice. Readable fragments suggest a patriotic political poem.
A collection of vintage kitchen instructions detailing muffins methods using flour milk yeast eggs and butter, plus an apple float with custard and a frothy apple topping. Also included are Indian Devil Sauce for meat, a scalloped fish dish with onion and parsley, a chocolate pudding with a meringue topping, and advice on using cold potatoes for frying and hash ideas.
In Grosslaswitz a tiny North German town, a bell was funded by villagers sparing from scant earnings. A bird dropped a seed in the churchyard, growing into a corn stalk that a schoolmaster nourished and shared. Eight harvests later the villagers celebrated a beautiful new bell born from humble beginnings.
A narrator recalls tales of Dr. Schell a homeopath famed for reviving the dying and troubling patients with his sharp wit and uncanny methods. The anecdotal account covers Mrs Blake Hudson and a comical deathbed scene ending with the undertaker Reese.
A Toledo Blade note recalls Paddy Murphy as the sole man among shipwrecked youths to vow selfless aid. While others preached self preservation, Murphy said he would swim ashore to save another and then return to help more, proving a true hero in crisis.
In Michigan near Detroit a hardware salesman uses a central telephone to interrupt a rival professor’s courtship. The professor rings the home, the girl answers, a ring arrives, and she accepts. The professor leaves for Ann Arbor on the next train, ending the romance attempt.
A collage of trivia on nations and numbers. Facts include Ohio saloons at 11 400, Japan churches at 377, telephones employ 10 000 Americans, and the President of Chili earning 14 000 yearly. Lambent notes cover ants, underwater photography, English streetcar limits, delta sinking, ancient alphabet, and oddities in daily life.
A Virginia railway tale reports an amused observer overhearing an engine crew blame a female operator for a breakdown. The throttle man reveals the engine is down because her petticoat is, in his words, the obstacle to movement, a quip highlighting gendered humor on trains of the era. The anecdote closes with the revelation that the engine can’t move with her petticoat down, and the crew explain why engines are metaphorically called she.
A fragment recounts Eli Perkins describing a Portland era lecture on a Boston and Maine trip. A young man praised his Portsmouth YMCA talk, noting he planned to marry a Portsmouth girl and indicating a desire for another Portsmouth lecture.
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