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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1896
Page
5
A fragmentary Boston Post verse piece contemplates marriage and a wife’s role. The speaker contrasts advice and affection, noting a wife’s practical sense and hard work. The lines mix playful imagery with social expectations about partnership.
A garbled compilation of kitchen instructions and domestic jests, including tips for making eggnog with nutmeg and brown sugar, sago puddings with brandy, a custard dressing, dumplings for pot pie, lettuce sandwiches, and miscellaneous anecdotes. The text mixes culinary steps with light humor and stray quotes, reflecting a period kitchen notebook style.
Twilight on the vine clad piazza opens a tale of Rose Haswell awaiting a lover. A letter from Huan Canavan promises reunion, but Rose discovers her father sends a fatal truth. Dick Redmond traps her, twists fate, and abducts her to a mountain cabin beyond Stony Point, where danger and deceit unfold as the chapter ends.
In this Popular Science News item, the author notes Japan lacks many domestic animals. Cows, milk, meat, and common livestock are scarce. few horses exist, mainly for foreigners. Dogs, sheep, pigs, goats, mules, and donkeys are rare or unused in daily life, with silk and cotton as staples while bears are among the few wild animals.
Dr. F. J. Cheney & Co. claim deafness caused by catarrh can be cured by their Catarrh Cure. They state the Eustachian tube inflames hearing loss, promising $100 to any case of deafness from catarrh not cured by the remedy. Circulars available. medicine sold by druggists for 75 cents.
A 12 year old writer from Rocers Store North Carolina asks questions for a public page. The letter touches Bible verses beginnings and ends and family deaths while inviting space in the paper.
A 15 year old Louise R wakes writes about reading the paper and enjoying swimming with neighbors, asks Bible verse questions and county history queries. Elias Howe invention, Esther verse facts, and other trivia are shared by a responding cousin Jessiz Farranp who signs off with best wishes.
A young reader from Frox North Carolina writes to the ProGressive Farmer column. She mentions Miss Estelle Mills a schoolteacher and Aunt Fanny Aunt Ora and Aunt Edna pieces and shares humorous quips and questions about NC history 1831 Raleigh torpedo cannon and 1857 events. She closes with best wishes for the magazine and cousins.
A 1808 notice from J Van Lindley of Pomona Hill Nurseries Pomona NC two miles west of Greensboro along the Southern Railway describes a thirty year old business with a broad fruit and flower trade from Maine to Texas. The advertises an illustrated catalogue free to all and calls for agents.
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