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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1892
Page
8
Mesara, Jordan & Booth promote low prices on Winter Knight shirts and wool negligees, tout their menswear variety and shipments. Wagner Bros advertises goods, while Kelln Brothers lightheartedly promote circus news and show dates amid sensational travel prose.
A critique of local leadership shows frustration with unpaid chairmen and moneyed elites who dominate public meetings. The piece accuses vested interests of delaying progress, deriding reform efforts, and harming Shreveport’s civic life through petty power plays and hollow promises.
A fragmentary notice urges a call to A. Kaho at 129 120 Tosas Street to review a cook cost listed as 95.0 with unclear details. The readable portion shows a personal contact request and price reference amid damaged text.
While digging a well on the union of Mr Basch in the dale that week workers struck an excellent coal stratum about 9 inches thick at 40 feet. At 60 feet depth they found a bed of petrified oak leaves three feet thick. Mr Basch resides on the old Togan on Western avenue.
Dr. H. Blackburn, once a Shreveport citizen, now in Granston Wyoming, appears abroad exchanging greetings with locals and visitors amid a brief, informal visit and friendly exchanges.
The article notes T. Land resumes active law work after a long retirement, joining the district benches and state positions. It highlights his public service, the esteem of his peers, and his association with his son Hon. John J. Land in the legal field. Also mentioned is the death of Lizzie Sawyer, described as musically talented and well regarded, and a brick foundation project for a residence at Walter J. Crowder’s eastern-terminal property.
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