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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1891
Page
5
A fragmentary verse sketches an ancient mariner and Nantucket skippers. It evokes long voyages toward New York and moonlight watches, with sailors’ feasts, cautions, and memories of the sea amid blurred, archaic spellings.
A miscellaneous read includes a chocolate cake recipe with butter sugar eggs milk flour and leavening, a white oyster sauce method with liquor and butter, and toast garnishes. It also covers pastry for one pie, an oyster omelet, and a baked apple pudding with caramel sauce. A humorous dialogue about a pick ends the page.
A long letter praises merit over birth while critiquing emancipation era race policies. It contrasts American opportunity with European hierarchies, cites convicts on Georgia roads, and argues for sending many African Americans to Africa. It notes rising crime among freedmen and laments lynch law, urging social thinning and exile as solutions.
Three or four youngsters quarrel on a dock over who is a kid. A boy claims he is as big as the other. another insists he is not a kid. The bickering escalates into a fight amid taunts about fathers and goats. The item ends with an ad for a “big offer” on the paper.
The Arizona Kicker recounts a string of town pranks and impostors, including a fake agricultural editor from Gulchtown who collected eleven subscriptions. It lampoons rival editors, recounts a rope-tying incident with Judge Wakefield, and details Col. Crocker and Hank Scott’s supposed misdeeds, ending with a mock graveyard burial.
In a brief school room confrontation, a teacher admonished a student for laughing during class hours. The exchange, noted in the Boston Herald, centers on discipline and classroom conduct with the student responding to the reprimand.
A writer recalls a near run in with a grizzly near Coloma while traveling to Frisco in 1855, then reflects on cold and health advice. The piece blends a firsthand bear encounter with cautionary notes on indoor air, digestion and child hygiene, followed by a discussion of diphtheria from the Milroy lectures and its relation to scarlet fever.
Instructions for keeping peaches from browning using vinegar and lime water, plus tips to improve flavor with kernels and pits. Advices on freezing quantities, using parings for jelly, and making jelly by boiling juice with sugar. Also notes on cooling and completing jelly the next day if needed.
The piece argues many mothers accept repeated colds in children as inevitable. It notes that cold symptoms can stem from indigestion, constipation, dirty habits, sleeping in daywear, or unventilated rooms, not just winter air. Mothers are urged to understand these contributing factors.
A fragment from The New York Ledger quotes a beauty column offering strict nightly routines to improve skin. It advocates extreme hot and cold baths, soap cleansing, and a Russian bath method, claiming firmer skin and fewer wrinkles as the outcome. A note follows about a paper run for The Progressive Farmer not being publishable on credit.
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