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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1897
Page
11
Editor notes subscription prices and pricing details appear in a fragmented item. The text references McKinley and a promised prosperity traveling southward on a five cent cotton wave, hinting at campaign era economic themes.
A fragment notes Brother A G Cook's influence on Florida Parisher, praising editorial work and overall improvement of the publication.
A candid query challenges the State Board of Health president Dr Olliphant on his knowledge of yellow fever. The remark implies scrutiny of official understanding and guidance on the disease from a state authority.
The speaker questions what the United States would do with Hawaii and Cuba, suggesting either territory could become a burdensome, costly possession for the nation. The remark hints at strategic concerns and imperial anxieties about expansion.
A reflective line asserts that a man who earnestly thinks and speaks is labeled a crank, a label that persists through time until the millennium. The remark frames enduring distrust of outspoken critics across eras.
The Progress questions reports of yellow fever in New Orleans this year, suggesting only a few cases occur each summer and skepticism remains about a wider outbreak.
A sharp critique targets Brann supporters amid a heated dispute over a Baylor University incident. The message vows punishment for those deemed pusillanimous and cowardly, using strong, historically charged rhetoric about the trustees and allies.
A Waco based public dispute questions Brann's Iconoclast for repeating vile slander against a church university admitting female students. The author defends the declaration as containing truth, insisting the attack cannot be allowed to continue.
The text argues that without action from a forthcoming constitutional convention to ease political government and moral distress, the masses face unresolved evils. It frames the convention as the only viable path to an acceptable adjustment and remedy of widespread societal ills.
Foster leaders urged non factional elections for the Constitutional Convention while suspicions arose from the States and Baton Rouge Advocate over attempts to nominate delegates at large. Quarantine delays postponed the October meeting as Kruttschuitz and J M Foster exchanged telegraphs about formal actions and proxy requirements.
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