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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1897
Page
14
The local issues column lists residents dropping by from nearby areas, a sick list update, renovations to buildings, and community updates. It mentions Noah Tyson, T. P. Williams, J. Gee Hadley, Rev. A. S. Lutz, Rev. W. S. Penick, the Kahn Dry Goods Company stock, and garden and cotton activity. Also covered are public works, theater posters, school openings, and upcoming attractions plus quarantine efforts by the colored community.
A. C. Mitchell advertises one car load of large well broken Missouri mules for sale at fair prices at his stables in D. Moch's wagon yard Tex as avenue number 1,000. The piece argues against spending 76,000 for a railroad, calling it folly and reckless.
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