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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1895
Page
2
A consumer notice reminds readers to check the label date to avoid expired items. It urges action before the stated deadline, warning of potential quality or safety issues if ignored. The message stresses timely replacement and awareness of shelf life.
A dated excerpt from 1890 captures a speaker behind a curtain watching sunset, shadows on the track, and a valley by a river. The speaker longs for a country governed by the people and declares a lingering look at a republic where power rests with the populace.
A compendium of scattered opinions and notices: calls to hold cotton, urge cash payments to shoe factories, and pressure farmers to slow market sales while mill owners press for labor and materials. It cites New York Italian demographics, a small Wilmington sound-money group, and political jabs at Democrats, with editorials on pay-up urged for patrons and subscribers.
A Southern editor urges farmers to hold back cotton, warning against selling at eight or nine cents. He argues demand and world scarcity will push prices to 15 20 cents, cites mill contracts and European buyers, calls for Alliance action, and notes silver remonetization and economic pressures shaping markets.
The Wilmington Morning Star reports the silver sentiment appears to be fading as gold standard supporters claim revival of free coinage talk is dying. In Illinois a Democratic convention for a vacancy saw all other candidates backed by free silver partisans while the gold standard hopeful drew no votes. The poll showed the strongest gold vote was 100 in his own county.
Banks refuse to resume gold payments arguing gold is scarce and risky to pay out. Rhodes' Journal notes that resumption could restore public confidence but ongoing gold exports and government deficits keep banks cautious, fearing gold shortages would threaten public credit.
The Progressive Farmer notes 83 168 pairs of shoes shipped into North Carolina from Boston in four weeks. It argues most should be made locally and urges Alliances to fund a Cary shoe factory. It envisions hides processed into North Carolina shoes for North Carolina people.
A Labor's Tribune critique argues intrinsic value of money is a myth, using counterfeiting, minting, and law as the stabilizing force. It recalls John Sherman and silver coinage battles, then cites Wheat imports and a Burlington speech by W H Harvey contrasting Jeffersonian democracy, Lincolnian Republicanism, and pro British gold standard pressure.
The Richmond Times concedes property values have fallen sharply in recent years but claims money supply did not cause the decline. It warns the nation will be ruined if money is not sound, suggesting an ironic contrast between quantity and perceived quality of money.
The New York World notes a banner Custom House day with 1519 entries and receipts of 43826595, praising rich prosperity while the Grange Advocate asks if American manufacturers idle, workers without jobs, and farmers with near bursting granaries share in the gains.
A. L Avery, bookkeeper for Messmore Garnett Co., is short several thousand dollars and owes secret-order funds. John B. Manning, NYSE member, expelled for bond endorsers. Charles H. Vick vanishes with 11,000 sound dollars. Kansas City Times hits financial trouble, others skim funds. Mills, real estate, and bank looting tied to “sound money” figures.
A collage of editorial snippets from the era critiques gold and silver policy, banking power, and political reform. It notes reactions from Carlisle, Horr, and various state papers, highlighting debates on currency, Greenbacks, and Wall Street influence. The Cotton Plant urges alignment with national reforms.
The Art Amateur is a monthly publication by Montague Marks in New York. It costs 8 or 4 dollars per year and features outline sketches and colored plates for amateur artists, aimed at home practice and decorative work for ladies.
Uncle Rastus questions Saint John about a supposed incident on the Sea Bed, asking if he is kin to men who cut off rat heads, while Johnson deflects. The fragment hints at race and literacy dynamics in a confrontational exchange.
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