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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1896
Page
7
The Baltimore oriole is hailed as a princely bird with brilliant plumage and song. Its nest is a masterful woven sack of threads and bark, capable of supporting heavy weight, with hanging variations by region to protect eggs from wind and predators.
A Cleveland newspaper item recounts a wartime Ohio minister aboard a river boat who endures profanity from the mate and its blunt reply. It also notes a Kentucky cattle crossing scene with an amused old Kentuckian and a Chicago man’s elaborate checkerboard table. Other snippets describe a Beauregard villa sequestration mishap over a cat and a Montana senator quip about Major Ginnis being “all things to all men.”
The Arago steamship of the Oregon Coal and Navigation Co. was driven onto rocks at the jetty near Coos Head. Twelve people, four passengers and eight crew, drowned after a capsized boat attempt to land them. The survivors were brought to Empire City. the ship, built in 1885, is listed as a total loss with 947 tons gross, commanded by Capt. Reed.
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