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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1875
Page
4
A fragment from a Commonwealth letter argues that paper money harms labor, industry, and commerce. It contends the Supreme Court equating a rag to a gold dollar sparked widespread speculation and economic ruin, urging workers to oppose the party of the era and vote to uphold the status quo.
The Upper Coast steamer Mary Ide arrived Wednesday evening the 21st with 15 sacks of new rice from Mr. W. H. Harris’s Good Hope plantation in St. Charles parish. The rice, to be milled at Perseverance Rice Mall, signals a favorable yield of about 12,000 barrels and the first receipts last July. The note mentions prior early receipts and prices around 10 cents per pound.
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