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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1898
Page
2
A fragment from a Shreveport column quotes Madam Rumor on local politics and social life. It mentions Rev W I LaPrad Jr, church services, tax and quarantine debates, street taxation, and a Louisiana public notice on hunting laws with fines up to fifty dollars. The piece comments on political manipulation and civic duties amid yellow fever fears.
The Progress presents the new game law enacted this session. It forbids catching or killing wild deer, ducks, turkeys, quail, partridges, doves, pheasants, and other listed birds between April 1 and September 1. It bars possession after catch or kill and restricts nest and egg destruction, with limited exceptions for domestication or crop protection.
In The Master's Vineyard the Salvation Army conducts services due to the pastor’s illness. Two conversions, one reclaimed result from Sunday, and two conversions, one reclamation, one sanctification from a Monday cottage prayer meeting led by the Army at Judge Hicks’s home. Over three months more than a hundred souls have passed from death to life. Despite visible success, local Christians oppose the Army’s methods, judging them decorum and creed, while John 9:49-50 is cited to defend their work.
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