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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
15
Fragmented OCR details a dated health text praising a panacea named in cryptic prose. It touts vitality and longevity through herbal extracts and tonics, urging readers to trust established cures while warning against modern alternatives. The piece reads like a period health column promoting dubious remedies and cautionary advice.
A garbled account mentions malaria symptoms and remedies, plus scattered references to places and events across the United States. It includes weathered anecdotes about infections, heat, and chills, and shifts to a fictional knitting of lines about a manufacturing firm, transport incidents, and an anecdote in New York about paying for rides on an elevated railroad.
A fierce sea storm wrecked a schooner near a port causing the loss of crewmen Willan Nettinger and John Edwards after a heavy wave tore away rail and deck fittings. The ship drifted during high seas as rescuers and witnesses report men swept overboard and feared dead.
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission will launch a series of railroad investigations starting September 17 in Chicago and Kansas City. Key targets include the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line for alleged excess charges on carloads from Central and Southeastern Kansas to Texas and Louisiana, and St Louis based cases against the St Louis Tron Mountain and Southern for alleged high freight rates to Texas.
The grand officers of the Brotherhood of Tocomo tive Firemen depart Thursday for Galveston Texas to attend the biennial convention with a recommendation to host the next gathering in Peoria. FP W Arnold the grand secretary reports strong order prosperity and large payments to widows heirs and disabled members totaling 68200 for 205 widows and heirs and 145 disabled members. Since the last report forty nine new judges have been organized and the total membership exceeds 23000.
Salvador Romero and Rena Garcia were found shot dead in a San Francisco lodging house, sharing a final note of love as Garcia wore a wedding dress. The affair involved Garcia’s husband Ben from Redwood City and a reported insane released prisoner Dr. Gallagher. Nearby, Louisville hosted a Sons of Veterans encampment with officers and delegations arriving for the event.
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