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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1897
Page
7
Local market notes indicate quotations are reviewed and corrected weekly. Prices reflect round lots from first hands and are intended for general trader reference.
Daily market list shows cotton quality quotes Ordinary through Good Middling, with prices. Provisions include bacon, lard, flour, crackers, sugar, molasses, tea, coffee, beans, potatoes, and fats with assorted per unit costs and barrel/sack quantities.
A fragmentary price list covers deer skins iron and hardware items with per unit, per dozen, and per hundred rates. Entries include hoes belting shovels trace chains wheel parts and wagon axles with assorted prices and measurements.
An advertisement offers a first class parlor for the accommodation of white gentlemen only and solicits patronage from the public. The proprietor is listed but illegible.
In a stance of matter of fact romance General Flores and Father DeVere guide Felicita and Captain Holiday. He seeks engagement after securing his boat while Felicita wavers under a cloud of sadness as Aunt Venus notices. The tale traces luck, duty, and devotion across a Southern setting with strong personal ties.
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