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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1896
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text mentions ex-pieen Lilineialant and her niece Print Kalani visiting Berlin and a possible meeting in Veine. Other garbled names include Gaethe and Sven, with references to a purchase of tea and a pieenehldie setting.
A garbled set of courthouse and social anecdotes describes a man jailed for beating his wife and a wife seeking funds to bond him out. It includes stray references to Judie, Atchison Globe, and various misread phrases, plus a saler seed catalog pitch and a caution about lunatics and children using matches.
In a deadly explosion at the Consolidated mine near Newcastle a cave in entombed sixty miners. Rescue efforts face gas and debris with fan air pumping planned while workers from nearby mines assist. Only Edward Welch escaped before dying from his injuries. two young miners Connelly and Pele escaped moments before detonation. Most victims are foreign workers and the death toll ranges from fifty to seventy.
An assortment of patent medicine pitches and farm seed promotions flood the page. Advertisers claim universal cures for dropsy and other ailments, toutting vegetable preparations from Green & Sons of Atlanta and urging readers to join big seed deals with the John A Sulzer Seed Co. Offers include free catalogs, sample packages, and high prices for crops like potatoes, oats, and watermelons, all framed in a bustling promotional tone.
E. D. Jenkins of Lithonia Georgia states his daughter Ida suffered severe eczema for years despite mercury and potash treatments. After five S.S. doses she improved and was cured with clear skin, claimed to be saved from lifelong blight. The ad promotes S.S. guaranteed vegetable blood remedy claiming cures for eczema and other blood disorders.
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