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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1896
Page
11
A first person account recalls enduring Arctic ice and near disaster. The narrator recounts being stranded with a hard cap'n, sharing dangers, storms, and brutal conditions before a thawed moment of reconciliation and mutual respect aboard the vessel.
In Odd Fellows ball near Wilmington eight couples of colored people married simultaneously by Rev. William Jason, president of the State College for Colored Students. Jason said he pursued the unions after months of labor among the couples who had lived together without marriage, hoping others would follow.
A collage notes varied trivia from agriculture to geography and history. Topics mention Black farmers in the United States, bamboo organs in Shanghai, leather markets, Australian exports, Pittsburgh rents, ear dominance, Jerusalem trade, medieval rubrics, Virginia magnesium, Michigan timber, and speculative ant-hill dwelling scales.
Tessie Howe, a young woman of respectable parentage, organized a citywide petition demanding officials respond to a murder case involving enslaved Negrons and a Titian figure. Her rapid campaign gathered signatures across business streets, with many residents eager to back her effort and seek clemency or action from the Governor.
Washington May 15 The Republican held House faces critics of pension spending as McPickler fights over committee control and reports on pension bills. Reed and Drg Charged With Murder Ovnawa New York May 15 Hemphill 24 arrested for killing Mamie Peterson over a love triangle. Col Cookrell body to arrive in New York with services planned before burial in St Louis.
A montage of brief items covers court, crime, business moves, and personal upheavals. Highlights include the removal of a major cotton house to New York, a Senate seat curiosity in Delaware, a diamond robbery in New York, a double shooting in Missouri over a divorce dispute, and the death of Dr. Salmon of London.
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