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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1897
Page
23
Quarterly review notes indicate quotations are checked and corrected weekly. The market removes fractional values to round lots from first hand sources, reinforcing price stability for local traders.
The column lists wholesale prices for provisions and staples in Shreveport including bacon, lard, breadstuffs, coffee, tea, sugars, molasses, chewing tobacco, onions, navy beans, potatoes, seed potatoes, hay, grains, and hides. It shows varied quotes such as bacon around 71-1 for dry salt meats, lard near 61-8, sugar refined at 5 5-6, coffee fair at 10e, and hay priced at 10.00 dollars per load, reflecting late 19th century market rates and commodity lots.
An advertisement lists deer skins per pound and a wide range of hardware items with prices. Items include bellows, belting, castings, tools like axes and shovels, Kelly implements, spokes, sweeps, chains, telegraph-like entries, wagons, seats, brakes, and wagon axles, with varying unit prices across categories.
Bodenheimer and Lancaster announce safe protection policies covering gin houses and other rural risks. The agency emphasizes comprehensive, affordable coverage for farmers facing fires, weather damage, and theft. Partners urge clients to review policy details and apply for protection plans.
The Progress family owes thanks to Mr. C. B. Wimbish for a day outing last Saturday. A two-mule wagon and driver provided transport to Sand Beach bayou where women and children rested under shady trees while editor and veteran fisherman James Heffner pursued trout. Heffner boated one fine trout, though hooks spared fish. All commend Mr. Wimbish for a fine outing.
A polemical blast condemns court bias and imperial wealth, arguing federal judges can issue injunctions against miners, sheriffs act against dissent, and the Supreme Court may reverse itself for wealth, while progressives vow to resist autocratic powers.
W A Kelly has opened a dining room lunch counter and bar in a new building facing the Union Depot on Louisiaus street. The article notes a up-to-date establishment with promises to handle job work pricing and complete service.
A Louisiana parish charter outlines Gull Timber Co Limited a general lumber business. It establishes stock at 10000 dollars divided into 200 shares of 50 dollars with a three member board to govern. Domicile is Shreveport in Caddo Parish with notices to officers and a twenty five year term.
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