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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1898
Page
6
A Massachusetts seaport tale recounts a retired pea captain who brags that her worm slong shore is the smartest. New exploits appear as she supposedly saved herself a doctor's bill by a self set broken bone after falling stairs and refusing medical aid.
Stephen Hansal argues in Harper's that convicts reveal life in Siberia as more tolerable than exile. Fewer than a quarter return to Russia after terms end, many settle as colonists, finding ease, wealth, and opportunity in the new land, aligning fortunes with Siberia's fate.
The passage describes Lot's Wife Island at 25.41 1460.22.40 E, southeast of Nippur in the Japanese group, sighted by Meares in 1788 who called it Meares rock and notes earlier Spanish charts as Vela rock. It mentions a 300 foot peak, a 50 foot cavern at water level, thrashing sea, and a 26 mile visibility, with a brief aside on fires diminishing due to electrical traction and stables.
A home preservation tip notes that sulphur fumes can remove fruit stains from fingertips. Place a small lump of sulphur on a tin plate, add a little alcohol, ignite, and pass the finger tip above the flame until the stain disappears. Harner's.
A dense catalog of local market items with prices and product names. It lists cattle, flour, lard, corn, crackers, rice, beans, meats, Open quantities and unit prices, refinery and grain items, plus geographic references and vendor cues.
U S land warrant for 160 acres offered by stock holders for sale in any state or territory. Also one share of paid up Citizens Cooperative Telephone Association stock of Shreveport yielding an annual dividend of percent. Will take less than par for it. Mies.
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