02 May 1896
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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1896
Page
1
A dealer announces purchase of a large stock from Sam C. Davis of St. Louis at fifty cents on the dollar. The assortment includes fine dress goods embroideries laces handkerchiefs hosiery napkins towels damasks ribbons notions and staple goods to be sold at low prices.
A department store advertises solid values across bleached linens, browns, and domestic goods. It lists ladies and gents handkerchiefs, hose, waists, mits, embroideries, luces, vests, corsets, spreads, and parasols with multiple price points, emphasizing extra low prices and colorful options.
Unfavorable weather delays a spring goods sale advertisement. Read the posted prices and call for details as the retailer notes the delay and urges customers to inquire directly.
A local shop advertises a wide millinery stock for spring hats with trims, inviting customers to inspect before buying. Hats priced as low as fifty cents, highlighting affordable options.
The department showcases footwear from Hamilton Brown WaT Boynton H W Roberg Co and offers Ladies and Misses shoes in multiple prices. Men and boys shoes include sl basic tan and black options with varied prices. Also advertised are hats shirts pants underwear and accessories with frequent price points across the display.
A five and three quarter mile bicycle road race drew a large crowd at Market and Texas streets last Friday with ten top riders. Robert Gill won in eighteen minutes fifty two seconds, Millard Scovell second, Clint Bradley third. Prizes included a bicycle suit and glow items. Route ran from Market to Texas avenues and back. Also notes the Louisiana division Travelers Protective Association elected committees. Life insurance ad closes the item.
The article laments a unsettled state amid widespread distrust of Democratic leaders. It cites betrayal over suffrage, calls out figures such as Kruttschmitt and Fitzpatrick, and notes calls for fair counts while condemning ballot stuffing and violence. It also reports on a Woodmen of the World camp inauguration and a fatal accident involving a horse hitched to a phaeton.
A damaged OCR list presents numerous textile items for sale including black and tan hose, lisle thread half hose, pleated basars shirts, balbriggans, drawers, French balbriggans, bleached shirt draw ers, and ladies shirtwaists with various quantities and unit prices. The fragmentary text implies a large, low price catalog from a department or dry goods store.
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