20 Aug 1896
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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1896
Page
1
Readable items list: shoes, ladies white silk parasols priced at $195, gold colored slippers, black silk parasols, bleached domestic fabric per yard priced 14 cents, and related footwear and textiles. Mentions Heeland toe slippers and multiple color options.
Local advertisement details cheap shirts and pants. White dress shirts priced at 30e, 14? and colored undershirts offered. Merely mentions suit items and stretch pants with pricing around $2.50 to $3.06.
Convince readers of a major bargain at Vis with limited trimmed hats left. Call to view and compare prices, urging quick action before supplies run out.
The article lists fire alarm stations by district with numbered corners at intersections: First District Nos 12 18 14 15 16. Second District Nos 21 22 23 24 25 28 27 28. Third District Nos 81 2 24 35. Fourth District Nos 4 42 43. Locations include Commerce Traffic Forrest Texas Marshall Fannin Common Cotton Milam McNeill Louisiana Sprague Western Peabody William Murphy Greenwold Jordan and other streets.
The passage asserts prevailing opinion that gold bugs seek to squeeze the people to push voting for McKinley and English gold-bugism, urging merchants to offset the influence, noting a splendid position to act as part of the strategy.
Crock of clothing at close figures. We offer low prices to old and new customers and promise no real competitor in North Louisiana. Call around for seats or any item in the gents and boys clothing line.
W. B. Weaver argues that the 16 to 1 free silver policy is sweeping the nation like a broom. He notes his own past painting work and predicts future use of the number 16 as a symbol amid hard times and faction guarantees.
The article touts travel to Colorado via Fort Worth and Denver City Union Pacific Denver and Gulf Railways as fastest and most comfortable, highlighting Serwich's restaurant in Shreveport and six hour heat relief. It advertises cotton belt and rail ticket deals to Cleveland with dates August 20 and 21, 1896, and promotes lumber prices from Remant Lumber Company plus Ripans Tabules for biliousness.
Ripans Tabules claim to cure nausea headache dizziness flatulence and dyspepsia. Advertisements promote improved digestion and quick relief, listing W. Hardy in Shreveport La and Lon Leverett for service and meats.
Local items include a sales pitch for life and education security via Wm Agurs and a note on a plumbing firm move to 214 Milam. A dissolution of Cotton Belt Lumber Manufacturing Co is announced, with W I White taking on obligations. Railway fare details for the National Encampment trip to St Paul run from Aug 28 to Sept 1, 1896. Ripans Tabules marketed for constipation.
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