10 Sep 1896
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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
1
A Houston area shop advertises a large assortment of parasols and umbrellas at very low prices. They invite customers to visit 305 and 307 Texas Street to view stock, offer opinions, and await posted prices after receiving and marking goods.
In line Oregon Co Ratzburg, dentist, lists fire alarm station corners and districts in Shreveport. Includes remarks on 16 to 1 betting odds and recent roof work, plus a note on Sidney Herold leaving for Washington and Lee University. Mentions Frank Serwich’s restaurant as a popular local dining spot.
The notice promotes travel to Colorado via Fort Worth and Denver City, Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf lines, highlighting shortest and quickest times, superior service and pleasant heat relief. It invites inquiries to local agents, naming J. P. Douglass in New Orleans and others in New Orleans and Denver.
The death of Mr. J. H. Stephens Jr. was reported as occurring a week or more ago at his home near Dallas, Texas. The obituary highlights his talents, humor, and social ease, notes his move from Shreveport to Texas two years earlier, and conveys sympathy to his wife, children, and family.
Parties contemplating building any structure from a chicken house to a mansion should write for delivered prices of lumber from Remant Lumber Company in Cheneiere, La. One million feet of stock to select from.
Guaranteed Sterling. Compare them with any in town. If they are not better we will present them to you FREE. JEWELERS, 214 Texas Street, Shreveport, La.
Effective Sunday September 6 passenger train No 7 arrives at 10 20 a m and local freight No 11 at 4 40 p m Passenger No 8 leaves at 4 30 p m and freight No 12 at 6 a m Local freight Nos 1 and 12 run daily except Sunday between Shreveport and Camden carrying passengers The Progress lists business men using ads including H Tomkies W T Slaton H Dillenberger Jr Co John Pickett Ripans Tabules and The Jake Frand Divine Healer Shrader arrived on Monday evening with trumpets lodging at City Hotel crowds gathered then he spoke at the fair grounds and left Tuesday afternoon for other fields Ripans Tabules advertised as cure for dyspepsia.
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