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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1897
Page
7
The quotations are reviewed and corrected weekly and represent prices to round lots from first hands. The note indicates a standard market reporting practice for price accuracy and consistency across sources.
Market quotes show cotton grades last week and today with lows and highs. Provisions and groceries list prices for bacon, lard, flour, cornmeal, crackers, coffee, tea, sugar, molasses, chewing and smoking tobacco, onions, beans, potatoes, cabbage, kraut, seed potatoes, twine, iron ties, corn, hay, oats, rye, barley, bran, miller seed, cotton seed meal, poultry, butter, and turkeys. Multiple named items and prices reflect a daily wholesale price sheet.
A historical price list detailing per pound rates for deer skins and a wide range of iron and hardware items. Includes axes, belting, castings, hoes, horseshoes, trons, hames, plows, points, spades, shovels, sweeps, singletrees, trace chains, bull tongues, wire, wagons, seats, brakes, and wagon axles with unit prices or per dozen rates.
Bodenheimer and Lancaster offer fire and casualty protection for gin houses and other rural properties. The agency markets safeguards against fire, weather, and related country risks, aiming to reduce losses for farmers and manufacturers in the region.
The Progress thanks C. B. Wimbish for a day outing with a two-mule wagon. Women and children rested under shaded trees while editor and veteran fisherman James Heffner pursued trout. Only one caught, but all agree the day was fine and hats were tipped to Mr. Wimbish.
When some doubt the honesty of courts critics accuse them of archism. Federal judges may issue injunctions restraining miners from peaceful assembly while Pinkerton detectives and sheriffs shoot, and the Supreme Court may reverse itself in the name of wealth. Yet radicals meet no rebuttal. The Progress vows to keep raising its voice against oppression and never fawn before autocratic power.
W A Kelly opens a dining room lunch counter and bar in the new building facing the union depot on Louisiana street. The establishment is described as strictly up to date and ready to serve.
A Louisiana charter for Gulf Lumber Co Limited is recorded in Caddo Parish naming Gulf Lumber Co Limited as a 25 year corporation with capital stock of 210000 divided into 200 shares of 50 each. E K Finney A C List and A M Finney named as initial board with Finney as President List as Secretary Treasurer. Authority to manage lumber business, borrow, mortgage, and elect officers. Proceedings witnessed by Notary Cal Dial Hicks and approved by District Attorney Jon R. Land.
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