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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1897
Page
3
Instruction from The Ladies' Home Journal on mastering swimming by first understanding body buoyancy and the leg and arm strokes. It outlines a three part leg stroke and a three part arm stroke, plus practice methods using a hammock and bed stem to build automatic motion before water practice.
The piece describes a fashion season featuring gray as a key color, jeweled hair ornaments for young women and matrons, white kid fabric with bead embroidery on revers cuffs and belts, lace jackets over thin gowns, a postilion back novelty, a fad for historic gem jewelry, and dresses with shirted sleeves or lace trims, plus piqué gowns with blouse-like bodices.
Guidance on serving Salada and salads with care to keep ingredients pristine. Emphasizes using appropriate bowls and utensils, minimal handling, and avoiding rude vessels. Fruit salads suit breakfast. heavier salads for lunch or supper. rich poultry or meat salads feel out of place at dinner.
An advertisement from W. A. Pleasants Hardware Co. Houston shows Stanwood Geimble engines boilers Pratt gins Thomas presses and elevators Strawbeorn mills Walter A Wood and Emerson Stanwood mowers and hay rakes Brinley Avery Kelley plows Avery Planet Jr cultivators Timkins buggies and barb wire stoves Linwie and more.
A public notice states that Mack Wellman stops payment on a G. W. Pillbury note for twenty four dollars and 75 100 cents dated February 27 1897 due six months after date with eight percent interest. The public is warned not to trade for the note.
Messrs H Dillenberger Jr and Co relocate plumbing shop to 307 Milam Street next to the Columbia club rooms. Call 66 for orders. Also notes a Hammond Holliness Clump Meeting near Marshall Texas on Texas and Pacific Railroad eight miles east from August 3 to 13 with workers A C Bane E P F Walker W B Crodbey and Sister Snell Mall. Reduced railroad rates and meals provided. bring quilt and pillow. Apply to A B WASEKOM Blocker Texas for details.
Tulane University Medical Department touts unmatched laboratories and hospital materials. It highlights daily bedside instruction at Charity Hospital with 700 beds and 30,000 patients yearly. The next session begins October 14, 1897. Catalog and info via Prof. E. Chaille, Dean, Drawer 261, New Orleans, La.
The Texas and Pacific Railway offers Nashville Centennial tickets with return by Nov 7 for Class A at 27.10, Class B at 10.85, and Class C at 15.15. Tickets on sale through Oct 15 for A and B, Oct 26 for C. Routes via Texarkana or New Orleans Gateways.
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