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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1891
Page
5
A poem fragment describes a maiden at an orchard gate waving to a man riding the front of a Fast Express train. The speakers note her fair face and simple country dress while expressing admiration for the railway worker and the trainman.
In Nineveh, Nellie Crandall grows with John Harding, a mill boy and neighbor, while Byron Marshall wooes her from the city. Years pass, Nellie marries Byron, then hardship and infidelity unfold, and John returns, offering a life with Nellie and her children only after Mrs Harding’s death. A final letter beckons Nellie to reconcile, and John’s enduring devotion blooms at last.
In a Kansas Territory cattle camp a stubborn cook Mac Millan faced mutinous appetites with force using pistols to compel a meal. He stayed months and earned the title best cook west of the Mississippi. A tale follows of overland gold rush days. Tom Roberts recounts a dream amid a Cheyenne river camp that ends with a deadly Indian raid, leaving him the sole survivor and the striking line that he saw Tom’s mother in the stars.
A board school teacher recalls a classroom moment when a boy used the word trumpet in a sentence and caused laughter. The piece shifts to a tale about Brummell’s friend seeking a pate, a dinner invitation, and a pie misadventure, ending with a note on sublime effrontery.
The piece rails at Brummell and his century’s wits for bold unfettered pranks. It recounts an English consul at Caen who resolves to dine at a hostess’s home without an invitation and secures favor by charming the hostess, explaining his success with a Paris purchase of a delicious item.
A collage of quips on guns marriage money and weather plus sketches of satire. The piece pokes at public figures and customs with jokes about prohibition blondes harp and Arctic ventures. It ends with a brisk notice urging mass meetings and timely reports from county secretaries and allies.
A boy races into a Germantown Telegraph report with alarming news about Aleck, who visited a livery stable and tickled a mule with a straw hoping to see a reaction. The mule remained unmoved, and the boy warns the boy’s mother that Aleck dared the animal, narrowly avoiding harm.
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