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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1894
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR item from a Louisiana deed record mentions actions and parties in terse legal wording. The readable bits include references to a deed, location in Louisiana, and a sequence of letters and numbers suggesting filing or cross references. Further readable details are unavailable.
President Cleveland's 1894 message reviews U S foreign relations, tariffs, Brazil and China disputes, Japan China tensions, Nicaragua Mosquito boundary, and American interests abroad. It notes naval and diplomatic actions, trade terms, indemnities, and calls for stronger arms, health, and budget reforms.
Fragmented OCR text questions gold reserves and currency obligations and debates open-endedly about government finance and credit. Mentions “Executive Mansion” and various garbled phrases, with no coherent events or unaffirmed details to anchor a clear news item.
A guest asks for room 13 at a hotel. The landlord shrouds the room in quilts and matting to deter suicide rumors. The guest fears a coroner's inquest, then learns the precaution was a misunderstanding and the room is restored to normal.
A well known New York artist recounts entertaining a country summer guest, showing pictures of famous French women and explaining executions. After Charlotte Corday and Mme Roland, the child remains incredulous, but when he mentions Marie Antoinette, she exclaims with admiration, and the artist remarks she was lovely but they cut her head off. The child finally protests his father’s assumed gullibility and asserts she is not as green as she looks.
Explorer Charles Jose transited the Baram river in Borneo and observed native customs. He slept in a house where a coffin at the bed’s head contained the chief's late wife. The corpses were kept in the house for three months before burial, a practice noted among locals.
In an Winchester assizes session the high sheriff Sir Henry Tichborne was found to have left his duties for six months to travel in Africa. The judge declared the absence unauthorized and unexcused and imposed a fine of five hundred guineas.
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