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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1897
Page
13
An ad for a 75 by 75 inch down comforter made with Russian Mercy down promises renal comfort and light warmth. It highlights a pretty figured cover and full filling, offered at a sale price of $5.75 with a six dollar special noted.
Local column reports a Jordan Street preaching schedule for tomorrow with morning and evening services at 11 and 8. Public Sunday school at 9 30. Notes on Mr Gindo Marbury’s return and a forthcoming marriage between Ralph Meyer of Monroe and Flora Dreyfus of Shreveport. Quarantine fears and yellow fever rumors persist, while weather and street paving updates appear amid community chatter.
The remark asks why fear yellow fever when death percentages are extremely small. It notes the paradox of public anxiety without showing how rare fatalities are, implying a need to reassess risk perception and protective actions.
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