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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1895
Page
5
Poem presents a speaker describing the core wish of a woman beyond wealth or status. She notes a craving for a true home and a husband who cherishes her as a creation of the Maker. The piece laments aging beauty and asks if love and partnership will endure beyond youth.
Household guidance explains standard spoon and cup measures for dry and liquid ingredients. It defines even, brimming, scant, and heaping spoonfuls, plus conversions such as sixteen spoonfuls to a cup and two cups to a pint. It also offers practical notes on sifting and leveling ingredients for precise results.
The column recounts historical stratagems and ruses from various conflicts, including French entry into Spanish towns, feigned sick crowds to seize fortifications, and deceptive fires on ships. It mixes these war stories with later local reminiscences of figures like Guthrie, Cornwalle, Hillsboro locals, and personal notes from Col. Al Fairbrother and the Hillsboro Recorder reporter.
A Dundrum era column urges speaking love now to family as time passes. It contrasts tender acts with unspoken feelings, cites Mary anointing Jesus as timely service, and exhorts readers to share affection before opportunity fades. Rural New Yorker note invites readers to receive a farm paper free.
A guest from England, Lord Cornwallis, visiting Hillsboro with Lord Dunraven for a yacht race, expresses lingering hurt over past events. The piece recalls Maj. Guthrie’s 18th century actions against Cornwallis, noting Hillsboro’s long memory of the war between England and the United States.
In 1839 Miss Mary Todd arrived in Springfield to visit relatives and drew the attention of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Todd teased two leading men with courtship, Douglas pursued while Lincoln hesitated, and after inner conflict Lincoln briefly broke then renewed the betrothal with Todd.
A compact reminiscence notes imprisonment for debt, lack of public libraries, and reliance on imported English goods. It sketches attire with powdered hair and cocked hats, travel by stage between New York and Boston, yeoman thrift, street punishments, scarce buttons, and primitive domestic industry before widespread manufacturing.
A Burdette anecdote urges readers to imagine gin as a farm and to view land value in vivid terms. He converts square feet to land worth per acre and extols the idea of consuming a strawberry patch as a critique of reckless drinking and misplaced aspirations toward ownership.
The notice compiles varied figures: London has 30 individuals earning over $500,000 annually. Turkey’s sultan allegedly spends $30 million yearly with many wives. a new cob pipe factory at Waverly, Tennessee. aluminum production rose from 150 pounds in 1884 to 338,620 pounds last year with price drop from $9 to 70 cents per pound. Bank of England notes worth $20 million leave daily and ledgers fill 60 volumes daily. Dunstable larks are preferred in England with 48,000 sent to London yearly. 500,000 larks killed yearly at Leipsic. Richard Gird of Chino Calowns the world’s largest plow at 18 feet high, 36,000 pounds, plowing 50 acres daily with two tons coal. a field claims English women’s tears could displace a 180 ton yacht. 385 New York clothing manufacturers, all but 15 using sweatshops.
A Glasgow street scene shows a pale bootblack boy, Jamie, awaiting work. A passerby offers to pay for both, but another boy explains Jamie’s hospital stay and refuses any money for himself. The grateful man gives a shilling, but the boys insist the coin go to Jamie, sharing pride and solidarity.
A poetic tribute extols a newborn girl, praising her beauty, charm, and soothing influence. The passage blends images of sunshine, flowers, music, and fragrance to celebrate the child’s bright presence and the joy she brings to those around her. It warns that beauty faces enemies who may shorten happiness.
The piece contrasts Pleasure as a fragile, dying figure tormented by eight vices while Hope rises as a steadfast guardian. It chronicles the decline of Pleasure, the sorrow of its loss, and the enduring, uplifting role of Hope guiding us toward renewal. The text blends moral imagery with domestic metaphor and yields a warning about excess.
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