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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1897
Page
3
A historical argument favors dairy over cotton on hill farms. It compares outputs and profits from a one-horse cotton setup to a dairy operation with ten cows, estimating higher net returns from butter, offspring, and reduced fertilizer costs, claiming cotton farmers on the hills are mortgaged to death.
Paul Lowenthall earned distinction by delivering the first wagon load of goods over the paved portion of Texas Street. The Progress notes his consistent early achievements and confirms he led in this notable street milestone.
The notice highlights the popular druggist Mr. Fred W. Bowers with an advertisement on the front page. The Ouachita Guards and many Monroe friends arrive on Sunday evening’s train. McKellar’s gator and turkle are described as frolicsome. Mrs H S Hart returns from a month in Galveston Texas.
Two Parisian women train and tame butterflies brought back from Asia by a returning traveler. Each woman keeps about 50 specimens that perch on shoulders, heads, and hands, fed by honey on fingers. The butterflies serve as subjects for art and respond to music, signaling a new pet trend.
A peculiar Mexican farming custom is described where oxen of one color are used in the morning and a different color in the afternoon. The farmers do not know the reason but believe it to be the proper practice inherited from their forefathers.
E S Carl Lee of the Little Rock Gazette traveled to the Nashville reunion hoping to be the youngest Confederate soldier present. At 15 when the war ended he served with Johnson's spy corps but met a Tennessee soldier who joined regiments at nine and was 11 at war’s end, with credentials to prove it.
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