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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1892
Page
5
In a stern appeal Horz announces scarce money drives cuts at his shop next week. He promises closer figures on Dress Goods Ladies Wraps flannels and new notions to clear stock, pledging honest deals and customer benefit amid hard times.
Dr H Weschler moves to Meridian Mies seeking a permanent practice location. Shreveport loses a popular citizen as the physician departs. Guido Marbury leaves for Memphis to join A M Palmers Stock Company, with plans to start immediately upon arrival. G O Hicks is ill with recent strokes while Mrs Elin Dingle Hicks from Greenville visits his family. Dr S H Hicks arrived yesterday from Greenville in response to a call to his brother G O Hicks.
An old column extols restraint in politics and society, urging decorum and integrity. It praises a well-kept store export and laments individual vagabondage as the source of calamity, calling for active virtue and accountability.
A visitor on a Texas street day paused before Jordan & Booth clothing house in Shreveport. The firm, new to the city, has drawn a large, lucrative patronage and is hailed as North Louisiana’s leading clothiers with a wide stock of hats, shoes, boots, underwear, collars, cuffs, hats, and men and boys outfits. Inside, J Jordan and a corps of clerks serve crowds drawn by quality goods, fair prices, and courteous service, proving enterprise and pluck boost local commerce.
The Southern Hardware Company in Shreveport advertises its large stock of Lavoe Scrapers and promotes the Western Wheeled Scraper Company as the leading supplier for river levee work. It asserts most Mississippi levee scrapers use Western Scraper Company products and positions itself as a soto agent. The ad notes engines, boilers, shelf goods, pistols, and a vase lamp for sale at 125 Texas Street with A. Kahn as the dealer.
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