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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1893
Page
2
A sprawling, fragmented piece blends a sermon on fast wealth with reports of robberies and gambling. It rails at highwaymen and burglars while tracing the moral dangers of greed, linking sensational tales to calls for virtue, amid chaotic digressions and vivid portraits of victims and temptations.
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