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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1896
Page
14
A long reader’s note from The Shreveport Progress reflects on imagination, selfish burden, and moral clichés. It mocks public patience, laments fashion over finish, and cites varied items from a Maryland wedding to a Brooklyn fatality and a Russian agricultural crisis.
Ex secretary Emile Johnson of the Car Drivers' union tried suicide in front of his sister Wy in Audubon Park New Orleans. James Dieh was arrested in Ravir Street on a fugitive charge. A color man Joseph Vidal fell from a ferry landing at Algiers. Mary Dixon and Joseph Davis fought on Rampart Street with injuries. A brakeman W E Bowen fell under a car at Illinois Central yards, injuring leg and foot. A girl Martha Tanuin fell through a bridge at Carondelet and Pe telely streets, fracturing left leg. A man Frank Surgis swore out an insanity affidavit against his brother Dirk Surgis, resulting in arrest. Four Italians on Bayou Lafourde shipped out, suspected swindling. Mamie Jackson and Mary Mitchell quarreled over ten cents, Mary stabbed Mamie, Mamie hospitalized. Robert Lehielter assaulted at L Graham's printing by Mike Manning. Manning jailed. Henry alias Jacob Jones escaped police jail, recaptured in Algiers. John Kelly charged with stealing a coat from Henry. A Corning fire devastated a third of business district. Reynolds Grain, Water Works, box stores burned, wind high. George Quaye at Poydras blames a dog, later accused by Mrs Reynolds and assaulted. James Reynolds stabbed George Quaye after suspecting mistreatment of his mother. Thomas Hughes accused in breach of trust with diamond ring borrowed from Mena Cook. Hughes jailed. C & Dovernet sues Morgan Louine of Texas Railway for damages 2050 over injuries by baggage car. A Negro named Toning in Green caused a disturbance at Jamey Tombe Fall’s Algiers barroom. arrests followed.
A fragmentary historical notice reviews the Temple of Solomon, Herod era aspects, and Mount Moriah. It traces Jeru salem’s sacred site, cedar from Lebanon, and Phoenician trade links, noting notable stones, walls, and the Western Wall tribute.
A fragmentary dialogue by Mrs Grundy critiques cheap magazines and snobbishness as hereditary. It questions supposed economies of modern life and notes men’s lack of deference to women, with assorted stray phrases about the sea tide and beach.
In Hillsboro a morning fracas near Fam Brooks store left farmer Cooper dead from a head wound. A. H. Files suffered bruises. Sheriff and grand jury to investigate. Cooper, a former Asis city resident, leaves a wife and five children.
An advertisement claims Dr Hartman is an authority on diseases of women and offers a free pamphlet titled Woman's Hand-Book in a limited-time offer from The Powena New Manufacturing Company Columns Ohio. The text then digresses into a dated historical prose piece referencing England Scotland France and Normandy, followed by notes on a New York riding academy sale and various patent medicine lines and odd anecdotes.
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