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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1895
Page
5
A bleak scene unfolds as a seller behind a rusty barn dispenses poisonous gin to lure youths into revelry and danger. A young man with fortune is drawn into the crowd, facing a grim fate as bystanders share a mournful sense of loss. The night air echoes with a passerby singing Home Sweet Home, stirring memories of happier times.
A scanned page offers recipes for corn fritters, oyster salad, and two chocolate styles, plus stuffed cabbage with rice and sausage. An extended note praises women’s education and social duties, referencing Biblical Views and urging female empowerment within domestic life.
Mr and Mrs Bowser debate marriage equality and control of money while a domestic dispute frames the scene. He defends traditional male authority and mistakes Cyprus for Corea and accuses his wife of overstepping, threatening to separate and recall a custody of sorts as they discuss divorce. The second vignette notes a reader argues plants feel and recounts garden anecdotes about a vines behavior and a German ivy growing uncontrollably.
A historical note recalls how a seminary ruled students must preach without manuscripts and a first speaker faltered, prompting the mentor to test composure. The tale extends to Spurgeon who used sealed texts to probe readiness, with one student likening Zaccheus to his own qualifications and stepping forward in humility.
Edward Martino surveys competing Eden location theories in the October Ladies' Home Journal. He notes a polar theory suggesting a warm, ancient North Pole with a submerged continent where early humans and vegetation could have thrived, though no conclusion is reached that settles the matter.
A Detroit Free Press style tale recounts a man duped by a stranger posing as Governor Morton in Buffalo, with the real governor's likeness and name used to extract funds. The piece ends noting a Minnesota girls school of agriculture proves schooling in cooking, canning, sewing, dairying, and entomology aids farm life and may inspire other states.
Correspondent notes the death of baby Ella at the Purvis farm near Hamilton North Carolina on September 2 1895 at 3 p m, describing the infant's entry into the Heavenly Kingdom and the family’s sorrow.
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