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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1874
Page
3
The report records Mr. B. Sweeney storing goods in Galveston and a yacht race prize purchased by Mr. Dillon engraved for donor and winner. It also notes A J Perkin planning a two story house on the lake and D A Taylors plan for a large dwelling as development accelerates around Lake Charles and its suburbs.
The fragment mentions weekly religious activities led by Rev Wan and others, with Sunday School times around 9:00 to 9:30 AM and prayer meetings on Wednesdays. It references German and American congregations, supervisors, and multiple Sunday services, indicating a church bulletin style notice.
TO ALL TAXPAYERS. an act of the State of Alabama or Kentucky approved March assigned will begin a one month period from the first day of August to the first day of September, 1874, daily from 10 o'clock to 12 and from 2 to 6. the notice concerns the levy or assessment in Leake Ghatte and mentions names John A.B accataate and Heinner.
The Superior District Court for the parish of Siena orders a public auction of the New Orleans Mobile and Texas Railroad Louisiana Division property. The sale covers finished and unfinished assets, rights of way, depots, shops, grounds, wharves, rolling stock, and movable and immovable property from the West Bank of the Mississippi to Shreveport. The auction occurs at the Carrollton Courthouse on Canal Avenue on September 5, 1874 at noon.
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