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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1892
Page
5
A fragmentary poem titled Ways Of Life reflects on youth’s bright path and later aging. It contrasts cheerful routes with a grim view of death, noting care wrinkling the brow and a final rest in earth.
A scanned column lists practical recipes and cooking tips including gingerbread, sugar cookies, baked apple pudding, Washington pie, corn cake, boiled rice, raised graham biscuits, fricassee of potatoes, cranberry tarts, mutton broth, and oyster sauce. It ends with a playful exchange about spelling between Larkin and a reader.
In a frontier era tale from Western Wisconsin vigilance committees pursue the cattle thief Jim Corsen. After identifying stolen Dexter cattle with a German butcher they arrest him in a cabin near the Mississippi, Corsen resisting until Blackman and riders threaten capture.
A tense confrontation ends when Corsen yields a revolver to Black man who arrests him. The man is taken to the county seat, jailed, identified by a German butcher, tried, convicted, and sentenced to twelve years at hard labor in Waupun.
The article lists simple thin drinks made with oatmeal rice flour corn meal and barley and warns against rushed marriages. It argues men can be problematic ex convicts or already have wives and urges women to beware of fast commitments and to test partners before binding themselves in marriage.
A moral discourse on fretting, noting one fretter can ruin family peace, disturb neighborhoods, unsettle city councils, and hinder national legislation. It argues fretting harms healthier action, dampens good work, and only drunkenness is a vice rivaling fretting in destroying home happiness.
A collage of brief quips from various papers includes a bank director, a library remark about diamond type books, a tale of a type written letter, a rooster admiring a brood, and a joking exchange about a boy and his father. Each item reflects light humor and social curiosities of the era.
A reprinted clipping defends Gen. Weaver against North South war rhetoric. It cautions against reviving hate and political scapegoating, noting Weaver’s humane conduct and the soldiers who faced him in battle. The piece blames politicians for prolonging strife and urges reconciliation.
A 1892 Greensboro message from H Warser calls local workers to build signups for equal rights, seeking blanks and instructions. Secretary Barnes notes Polk Memorial Fund donations should go to H W Ayer. National Farmers Alliance to meet in Memphis on the third Tuesday in November with rail rates requested. LF Brinson asks for county leaders to send names and addresses.
County or sub alliance may employ a superior lecturer by writing to W S Barnes secretary treasurer Raleigh NC expenses and small compensation payable. Parties inviting alliance officers to speak pay their own expenses. The State Alliance will not cover expenses except for regular work. Communications for the Executive Committee should go to Capt S B Alexander Raleigh NC care of W & Barnes. By order of Executive Committee W S Bargers secretary treasurer NC FSA
Otho Wilson resigns as Chairman of the State Executive Committee of the People’s Party due to nomination in the Fifth district. Dr W P Exum and Hon Jas M Mewborne will address the people at several towns on listed dates and places including Jackson Roxboro Hillsboro Carthage Liberty Walnut Cove and Dobson with dates in October and November.
A book of new songs set to familiar tunes offered for live entertaining and direct singing. Send for books and organize a glee club. Price 8 cents each, two for 15 cents, sixty cents per dozen. Address RE STEELE Mt. Vernon ill.
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