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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1896
Page
4
The Herald launches in Corvity with editor L. B. Grain at the helm and veteran Cramian on staff. Coverage teases forthcoming business ventures, a powder magazine contract with Austin Powder Co, hospital expansions, railway shop completion, and community notes on residents and local happenings.
A lively community column prints random praise and jests about local figures in Shreveport and Mooringsport. It highlights names like Walter Jackson Alex Bernstein and J. C. Hamilton while noting street life, police, drag antics, and civic expectations. It references a mayor and a visiting Mr. Guy from DeSca and mentions economic concern over cotton prices.
The Austin Powder Company of Cleveland Ohio contracts a powder magazine and names their sole agent for the surrounding territory. An assortment of powders shot shells groceries and grain offered by traveling agents. Also notes a stray mare reward and a market advertisement for Texas street. Storehouse for rent on Milam street with terms and contact.
See Hicks Bros offering storehouse with plate glass front, near five room dwelling and two tenements, plus a six room house in Allendale and multiple lots on Edwards and Spring streets. Also listings on Texas avenue Murphy street frontage, two lots behind Charity Hospital, six Sprague Street lots, and fourteen Rogers subdivision lots in rear of Judge A W Otest home.
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