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Shreveport News Notes and Local Developments
The Progress notes social calls by Dr. Alphonse DeSeay of Ruston and Lisbon plans. It hints at a slack stave factory arrival around April 15 and urges paving Texas avenue and opening Murphy street East end. Reports on a small tenement fire, Decoration Day activities, and local civic talk include a cotton mill revival, city map needs, and the Shreveport Cotton Oil Company shipping oil to Europe.
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Alphonse DeSeay
Ruston
DeSeay
Louisiana
Shreveport
Schulssr
Texas Avenue
Murphy Street
Butler’s Hill
August Erickson
Wilt H. Tunnard
The
Times
Caddo Board
Old Red
W. J. Lister
Center
Tex
Epworth Leaguers
Jordan Street
Charles Schuler
Keachi
Appopos
DeSoto Parish