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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1894
Page
6
A garbled, fragmentary OCR passage describes a Sunday school class near Boston, with pupils reciting verses and household dialogue. It references mischievous wordplay, a foreman quoted on wage changes, and a string of dialogic vignettes featuring children and adults in humorous, disjointed exchanges.
An account blends a Dahomey night assault by marine and Foreign Legion troops with a long, oscillating tale of lovers, a gypsy conflict, and a haunted advertising impresario. The piece alternates between battlefield vividness and Gothic domestic memory, linking sacrifice, jealousy, and a secret shawl to a grim house fire and a spectral warning about advertising history.
George Jones, a 4 woodchopper in van Bernarding, California, finds two hanging bags with gold pieces totaling about 1900 dollars. He returns the treasure to the ground, deposits it at a San Bernardino bank for owner identification, noting the money appeared to have been hanging in the tree for a short time after trimming began that week.
Fragmentary OCR shows garbled claims of remedies and tonics amid stray brand names. References to bottles, syrups, and salves appear with broken sentences and mixed locations, offering no coherent event or outcome.
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