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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1897
Page
17
A rural essay argues the one horse farmer can shift to a dairy based system. It analyzes costs and profits of a ten cow dairy producing 3000 pounds of butter yearly at twenty cents per pound, plus offspring sales. The piece contrasts net profits with a cotton model and notes fertilizer savings and debt risks. It also mentions Paul Lowenthall and Texas Avenue paving history.
Public notice highlights Fred W. Bowers, popular druggist, with promo on the tente page. Ouachita Guards and many Monroe friends arrive on Sunday night train with enthusiasm. McKellar's gator and turkle playful. Mrs H S Hart returns from Galveston Tex after a month away.
Two Parisian ladies tame butterflies fed by honeyed fingertips, with each woman keeping about 50 specimens. The insects greet the mistress on entry and serve as art studies and music companions. A returning traveler brought the specimens as souvenirs. In Mexico a farming custom varies oxen color by time of day, a tradition passed down by ancestors.
E. and Carl Lee of Little Rock attended the Nashville reunion aiming to be the youngest Confederate veteran. Lee, 15 at war's end, served with Johnsons spy corps and had claimed youth record, but Tennessee Keller, who joined at nine, arrived as a younger veteran, challenging the claim.
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