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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1897
Page
13
A vintage catalog style notice touts a November sale to stimulate trade with a full stock available now. It highlights readymade suits skirts capes jackets and new women’s clothing including blue and green suits and military braid trimmed jackets, promising low prices and complete selection for the season.
A reader’s page notes the Democratic parish executive committee meeting today at noon, debate over non factional delegate selection, and local issues including Yellow Jack and Jack Frost, retail ads, Baylor, quarantine procedures, public school funding, and proposals for city ownership of a new school building pending donor votes.
The Progress expresses gratitude to Megsre Ardes & Co for bottles of Watulka a health tonic, noting its non alcoholic quality and digestive benefits. Local agents in Shrever Park are listed. Pleasant Cullers reports a morning visit from R H Farrell of Old Monterey Texas and others including J A Bongass of Mooringsport. Price Harrell relatives arrive for a preliminary trial while Allen & Curry overhaul lumber mills for two story frame and new finish machinery.
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