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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1896
Page
5
A fragmentary poem urges endurance and gentle optimism, urging readers to smile through grief and hardship. It cautions that sorrow and fate will pass, while smiles bless weary feet and light the inner burden. The piece attributes sentiment to Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
A vintage recipe collection presents Lima bean soup with milk and onion, quince preserves with agar and sugar, and fricasseed chicken with oysters. Instructions cover bean pulp, milk thickening, and seasoning, plus quince cooking and syruping, then fried chicken with oysters and cream gravy.
A collage of quips and sketches from multiple papers lampoons gender roles, social norms, and aging. The snippets include jokes about bloomers, bicycle fever, grammar, and theft, followed by a fragmentary political aside on corporate power and the masses.
Walter Lee Wombie presents a tale set in Western North Carolina where Haswell accuses Hugh Caravan of grave crimes. The scene centers on a revelation of Caravan’s past with a daughter and a marriage revealed as a sham, prompting shock and calls for accountability from the assembled family.
Hugh Caravan, a millionaire builder, is confronted by Dondegon an officer of the law who arrives at his home to arrest him for bigamy linking his secret marriage to Rose Caravan to the death of her father the former owner of Don Jarra’s estate and the Island’s dramatic past the case continues.
Claims catarrh is a constitutional disease and cannot be cured by local applications. Advocates Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally, targeting blood and mucous surfaces. Describes it as non-quack, prescribed by a leading physician, with a tonic and purifier blend. Sold by druggists for 75 cents under J Cheney & Co. label.
A page of the Progressive Farmer features a prompt titled First Conundrum asking what is unwanted by all yet desired by none. The column includes multiple letters from North Carolina youths and families asking to join the Young Folks section, posing history questions, and sharing family details. A quoted dialogue on bicycles appears at the end.
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