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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1892
Page
8
The Progressive party shows tickets with candidates from New York to Texas and California. Vague names appear for president and vice president roles, including regional leaders and party officials.
Fragmentary text references HON Newton Blasctlard and a nomination by the Penwenthe party. Mentions a Bearly Ematrated and convoluted wording, lacking clear dates places or outcomes. Further readable context is needed to determine the event, participants, and result.
The piece argues for an outlet system to manage spring floods in the Mississigi and Red River valleys. It criticizes levees as increasing damage and promotes creating high tide relief channels to avert overflows. The call urges timely trials to test the outlet approach.
A noisy column blends political jabs about the South and Democratic loyalties with cultural vignettes, weather outlooks, and scattered local notices. It cites threats to white supremacy rhetoric, stray spider dangers from Hermosillo, poetic musings on love, farm prospects, and parish governance remarks from Franklin, Mansfield, and Farmerville, including a parish tax assessment cut amid flood losses.
An emergency plan proposes reducing parish salaries and removing workers from the charity list while the police jury discusses costs. Report notes sugar crops and onion wagon deliveries nearby, with locals claiming high onion yields and optimistic views on cotton prospects. Logansport news adds that crops look good and suggests Abinek kiln as a potential investment.
Telegraphic Weather Report notes light cotton in northwestern counties with light showers improving crops in other regions. Louisiana reports heavy rains in the south hurting crops while northern areas open cotton and expect a large crop. Mississippi sees uneven rainfall and favorable conditions, with caterpillar and boll worm in places but no major damage. Alabama and Georgia report mixed temps and rainfall, cotton picking completed in the south with rust and shedding concerns and generally below average yields. Florida faces heavy western rains and dispersed moisture, while South Carolina and Tennessee report uneven rainfall and below normal conditions affecting yields and wheat in some areas.
General crop conditions improved in central districts with beneficial showers in North Carolina while drought hit overall. Cotton, corn, and tobacco damaged by drought in several areas. peaches and potatoes harmed in northern sections. various price levels for staple goods and commodities listed, including cotton, corn, sugar, and lard with occasional notes on supplies and freight.
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