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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1894
Page
6
A sprawling editorial column surveys Arctic expeditions led by Lieutenant Peary, criticizes modern wood engraving, and riffs on naval naming, Pole myths, and a boastful young duc d Orléans. It muses on Dowe’s contraptions, a proposed Kearsarge ship name, and a Japanese war spectacle.
A scattered Louisiana wire reports James Marrow, actor in Alexandria, bruised after a fall from a gallery. local officials appoint Coats, Penh, Bonds and others to city posts. The US snagboat Howell repairs a damaged bottom near Roark river bend. Electric light project advances in Alexandria. William Miller shot dead at Independence. family injured. Junction City founded near Homer. New Orleans fights city hall corruption as Wash. exhibits reach Sioux City. Sweeny Ferguson feud erupts with a shooting. Mrs. Tella dies after L and N train accident. Louisiana politics, farming, and crime updates fill regional pages.
Secretary Carlisle receives Attorney General Maxwell opinion holding wool refers only to sheep hair and that lower duties apply to goods made of other animal hair. Customs to re liquidate entries contrary to guidance. August 17 instructions unchanged. collectors warned to act accordingly. Also report on U S lives in China amid unrest and a Washington court session noting docket and backlog projections.
Wastinatox Oct. 10 The secretary of the navy orders the Monitor and Miantonomah out of commission freeing men to prepare the Minneapolis for commission by the 15th. The ship will crew 400 and officers and men are being assigned. Leading candidates are Captains James O Kane H S Robeson and B J Cromwell with Cranwell likely to get the post.
Wasuincros reports the great canal project linking Chesapeake bay to the Delaware to form an international waterway from Florida to Long Island sound gains momentum with a expert board to pick the canal line. In Washington regulations to detain emigrants from Prussia Posen and Sicily for five days due to cholera have been eased for cabin passengers who prove no exposure.
United States Consul at Horden Switzerland notes a strong outlook for American cattle growers from high Swiss meat prices. September beef live weight seven to eight cents per pound hogs three to nine cents per pound sheep dressed weight twelve to thirteen cents fat calves live weight up to twelve cents.
Captain Howgate, the alleged defaulter ex-chief of signal services, was brought back to the capital after a 13 year absence. He arrived with Drummond of the secret service to be processed by the U S marshal. Howgate smiled through his return and was placed in cell No 4, once Guiteau's, as watchful guards watched him. He offered no statements at the time.
The Washington dispatch reports that critiques of the Krag Jorgensen small caliber rifle being issued to troops and its purported lesser lethality have been challenged by experiments from the German army medical corps. The findings, echoed by the bureau of information, indicate the small bolt projectile can produce destructive wounds comparable to larger lead bullets.
William J. Little, superintendent of the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, reports excellent resort condition. He recommends selling 154 top still held by the government and using proceeds for springs improvements. Two new springs found this year, but not increasing surface water flow.
An elderly wanderer named Pierre Hubert Gis ure near Bond Hill Lewiston Maine is described as a magnetic healer with mesmeric powers. Born in Canada, he served as a lieutenant in India and later worked as a harpooner. Though illiterate in English, he reportedly soothes pains with a laying on of hands and can locate a rifle ball by touch. He has lived in the United States about ten years and travels with a French Canadian family.
Rice farming is highly developed inland in Mada Pascal with extensive terrace fields on mountains and hills. Around Lananaire marshes floods create fertile but fever prone lands transformed into rice plots. Water channels move irrigation from higher to lower terraces, with canals feeding fields at steep slopes.
In a famed New York hotel cafe a young man arrives with a companion and orders a lavish spread. A waiter brings a labeled bottle water goblets sugar and spoons as the couple prepares a peculiar green drink. The wine list features many vermouths absinthes and champagnes none American.
Robert E. Stone of Lexington Kentucky has raised a stone over his dog’s grave costing 65 dollars. The pointed seashore granite shaft is elaborately carved with a deeply chiseled inscription praising Don as a silent brother and friend for sixteen years and promising companionship in the afterlife.
In a brief, enigmatic exchange, Todd reveals the twins are named On and Off. The nickname stems from a playful line about stopping crying as the ether begins, leaving readers with a curious, cryptic vignette.
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