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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1894
Page
5
Readable dish by dish guide shows RAMAKINS cheese and potatoes baked into cones or loaves, bread griddle cakes, dredge patties, vegetable broth, apple pie, and Turkish pilau with butter. Includes unrelated comic quips and jokes about life and education, reflecting a mixed page of culinary directions and light anecdotes.
The New York Sun cites a doctor warning that open bosoms in waistcoats invite pneumonia pleurisy bronchitis and rheumatism in modern times He argues waistcoats should button up to the neck to protect the chest in cold weather Broadway styles show men with open fronts and light coverage The piece contrasts European high buttoned attire with American fashion noting public figures and clerics favored neck coverage and cites New York Citys extensive underground wire network as a related note
A nostalgic sketch recounts Thomas Jefferson from Virginia roots to legal training under George Wythe, early casework, and a life marked by frugality, political rise, and opposition to monarchy. It notes his stance on slavery, religious liberty, and his role in shaping early American policy and currency.
New York society ladies pay five dollars to have their pet dogs clipped while nearly forty thousand families in the city are destitute. A new sign in front of a Sixth Avenue barber shop draws passersby as news coverage notes the divide between luxury and hardship.
A collage of rapid facts notes a piano contains nearly a mile of ice, 147 Indian reservations exist in the U S, every American warship carries over 150 flags, England taxes male servants, German street bands need pro cession duties, Pris haes Imperial library holds 75 000 works on the French revolution, Chinese recruits must leap a six foot ditch, England has 40 ships in South African traffic, Germany eight, the United States two, Philadelphia feeds its mills at 77 cents per thousand feet of gas, and cloth manufacture now blends cotton and wool with refined processing.
The shopkeeper describes Jean, a young Parisian barber who clips poodles for wealthy ladies. He charges five dollars for clipping bathing and perfuming and has popularized Paris styles in New York. Jean plans to hire an assistant as demand grows from rich patrons, with elaborate ankle bracelets, hip tufts, and a mustached muzzle as the signature look.
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