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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1897
Page
23
Weekly reviewed prices for ordinary and good middling cotton with bids for breakfast bacon, hams, lard, bread flour, crackers, sugar, coffee and tea, molasses, chewing and smoking tobacco, onions, beans, potatoes, kraut, bagging and ties, iron, hay, oats, cottonseed meal, poultry, butter, hides, wool and tallow. Prices shown in round lots from first hands, including regional items like New Louisiana coffee and Arkansas prairie hay.
Fragmented OCR lists various items with prices and descriptors. Mentions hides, belts, axles, plows, wines, chains, spades, and tools. Contains numerous garbled terms and inconsistent measurements, suggesting a contemporaneous classified or hardware ad page with mixed currency figures and product names.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a sunlit bar scene in Shreveport Louisiana with mentions of meals wines and a bartender. Names and clear events are obscured by garbled characters. The passage references Kentucky whiskey and general barroom activity without a cohesive narrative or dates.
A Louisiana charter outlines the creation of a lumber business named as a corporation to be based in Shreveport. It details capital of 10,000 dollars, 200 shares, a three-member board of directors, and corporate powers including buying, selling, leasing, and borrowing. It specifies stock subscription, charter amendments, and dissolution rules, with officers appointed to begin in 1898.
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