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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1893
Page
8
The column blends civic thanks and local notices urging Shreveport residents to support the upcoming election and parish pride. It includes a dental advertisement claiming painless tooth filling by Dr. Chas. G. McCtond and mentions Washington letters and political views.
Fragmentary notes report Browne & Co advertising carpets curtains and oil cloths while a separate column condemns lynching in Jefferson parish. The mixed text adds listing items such as flour soap baking powder and discount groceries, mentioning a murder and subsequent lynching of two brothers amid local tensions.
Fragmentary text questions the Peet or Stock and taste. Mentions Messi and various names in a puzzling stream. Lacks clear events, dates, or factual reporting to summarize into a standard news item.
WDDa The Cash Grower reports visits from Mr BL PL Roach of Stonewall and others in town. J W Peter, president of Bossier pollen jury, praised the paper. Captain J W Scott Greenwood, W H B Croom Morningsport, and Captain Simon Levy with family made calls. Belmont Seminary partings and Belmont Chicago trip noted. The paper streams hometown chatter and local greetings, with health notes on Captain. KEEP UP THE LICK.
A long fragment from a Shreveport area paper blends promotional copy for a fair and local business, with notices about taxation, infrastructure, and civic events. Mentions of Wells of Alexandria, the Mair Association, and the Central Louisiana Fair anchor a broad, period-voice roundup of community business, public works, and society notices.
The report lists Chas W. Crown as director and Sam Wolf as auditor. The text also notes the arrival of Me Farnworth to an inlet position, praised for his improved introduction from the friend state.
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