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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1895
Page
5
A fragmented verse from Harper's Bazaar evokes twilight vespers through nature images. The speaker contemplates dusk in elm boughs, birds singing, and fields of quiet perfume as thrushes chant. Roads, forests, and swamps frame a tranquil, religious mood at day’s end.
A muddled household recipe section with okra fritters baked corn fried celery and mothered cabbage plus rice cups and peaches and rice desserts. Instructions mix boiling, frying, baking and simple garnishes with unclear measurements and several typographical errors.
A garbled OCR list clusters names of places and counties across North Carolina, with scattered towns and regions such as Warren County Buncombe Henderson Durham Rockingham Vance and others. The text appears as a long, unreadable inventory of locales, institutions, and possible misspelled names, lacking coherent narrative or context.
A column gathers humorous Baptist Young People's Union Convention anecdotes and ministerial storytelling. It recounts yarns from Brantly church and Branty gathering, including Presbyterian kittens sold to a Baptist minister, a Colorado delegate's joke about Colorado Springs health, a Kentucky minister recalling a mountain crossing, and a tale of sound doctrine that drew laughs at Fuller's church.
A Richmond Star correspondent records a humorous dialogue with a young woman on bicycles and husbands. She praises bikes as loyal escorts, saying a wheel is worth a dozen husbands, never complains about time, returns home in good humor, and offers sharp quips about marital friction. The piece playfully argues that a wheel is easier to part with than a husband and notes the author’s cautious stance on wheel longevity.
A humorous column mocks marriage by comparing it to a bicycle. The author notes a wheel can roll away, be repaired in a workshop, and not demand attention, while a husband resists daily wear and requires constant care. The piece ends with a sharp quip that you may fool a man but not a wheel.
A suffragist complains the editor mutilated her poem Woman's Plea to Tyrant Man for Recognition. She laments ruined strongest line as pants are mocked and torn up. The editor flees, taking the window screen as a memento, leaving sad city papers to tell of such acts.
A collage of short exchanges features playful romantic banter from a Washington Star quote about sunshine and moonshine, a stunt of mule bravado with Uncle Mose, a chatter about stopping a train by a glance, and lively rural humor with dialect. The passages showcase humor and social dynamics through conversational snippets.
A Swedish rule deprives a man of his electoral vote after being seen drunk four times. The item includes a moral reflection urging to seek the best in people, followed by a line about truth and illusions from Cuyler and Froude.
Correspondence from the Progressive Farmer announces the next quarterly meeting to be held in Concord near Chadbourn on October 10, 1895. Rev. J. T. B. Hoover and other distinguished speakers will address the public. attendees are asked to bring full baskets and fruit. A potential night session may occur at Chadbourn or Whiteville.
Hon J Spence Bounds, a leading Hillsboro attorney, abandons the Democratic party after nineteen years of loyalty. He tells a Dallas News reporter the Democrats failed to deliver relief, are controlled by bosses and money, and now advocate a clean, new party.
Mrs Helen C Stewart widow of Sheriff Dan P Stewart was appointed to fill his term as sheriff in Springfield Missouri until a September 9 special election. At 46 she has lived in Springfield two decades and is the nation’s only woman sheriff. judges Danby and Houston supported her while Judge Appleby abstained. Allianceman, send one dollar for a sample copy for a year.
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