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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1894
Page
5
A collection of kitchen guidance including boiled eggs with butter and quick cold water chill, egg plant fritters with pepper and milk batter, Washington pie layered jelly cake, cod sounds with force meat and oyster sauce, jumbles lemon sugar cookies, potatoes a la holland with cream sauce and cheese, and veal curry with onion apple and curry powder slowly simmered to tenderness.
Rev Sam Jones at Opera House discusses the need for royal independent manhood over office seeking. He jokes about fools and monke y with audience laughter, rails at pulpit progress, calls for clear heads and courage, praises character over money, crowd applauds and disperses after a lively talk.
A trial recounts a two year old domestic dispute with a judge asking a witness. A detailed report describes how Quaker Friends wed in Richmond with a daytime ceremony, committee review, parental consent, and a signed certificate, the first in twenty years.
In Summerville Georgia a veteran preacher riding to his country church through Indian frontier lands debates fate and gunfire. A friend asks why carry a flintlock if foreordained to die. The elder replies if foreordained to kill Indians then the Lord needs the gun to carry out his purpose.
Beatrice Langdon accepts Harry Raymond a brakeman whose love endures despite danger. After a fatal railroad accident he is cut to pieces, sparking a bitter claim that dividends profit from unsafe cars and workers’ deaths. A libelous call for reform echoes through the scene.
A collection of short notes on place names and origins from Easton to Joliet and Carson City, plus historical facts on demography, banking gold reserves, plague statistics, life expectancy, and sea salt content in major seas. It mentions school ages, foreign-born proportions, and notes on ozone production by balsam trees.
A Saturday Critic column from Oneonta, New York condemns renaming Appomattox Court House to Surrender. The piece argues the site’s historic memory, honoring Lee and Grant, deserves “Victory” rather than a renamed designation. It stresses the landmark’s significance to Union and Confederate veterans and to American brotherhood.
A Concord Standard tale describes a girl in Cabarrus reading love letters her father wrote to the mother before marriage. The daughter alters names and presents them as late letters, provoking the mother to react with disgust and forbid involvement with the young man. The scene grows quiet as the letters are read aloud in the house.
A British soldier mocked a young maid by claiming the two brass cannons they took at Bunker Hill. The nine year old patriot answered by offering to show her country’s own take from the British, prompting a sharp retort about reciprocal losses.
The New York Times has published details of Secretary Carlisle's conduct toward the Sugar Trust. It notes his visit to the trust's offices, a favorable sugar schedule, and a controversial letter on policy. The Times asserts no charges of collusion but criticizes his actions as improper and damaging to Democratic support.
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