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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1898
Page
28
A fragment from the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Louisiana notes annual session in Alexandria on Tuesday. The clippings mix satirical quotes and editorials from multiple papers on political topics and social issues.
In New Orleans the convention lists many offices with candidates. Twelve seek governor, fifteen for U.S. Senate, forty for Congress, fifty for the supreme court, and the rest for smaller posts, a remark on the alarming political framing.
The Rayne Tribune cites chaotic editorials from Tennessee backwoods and Abilene reports about a ventilated shoe invention using a bellows to air the foot. It notes agitation over a lifetime office at a state convention and praises lawmakers Wise, Alexander, Bell, Boamer, and others while urging readers to doubt dupe rhetoric and honor common sense.
Frank Serwich offers a modern European plan restaurant and hotel with fresh oysters served in any style. Choice meals available around the clock. A popular resort for ladies and gentlemen, with no saloon connection and refined hotel appointments. Terme moderate. proprietors Frank Serwich.
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