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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1871
Page
3
A long, humorous sketch from the Titusville Herald parodies married life and feline behavior. It describes a newlyweds’ home where a cat dominates scenes of domestic bliss and misadventure, including a night chase, a custard accident, and a comic resolution with a barnyard twist, set amid a circus interlude in Austin Texas.
A Charleston convention of planters merchants and manufacturers yielded progress. The Commerce Committee opened a steamship line and Hygiene and Clinico reported attracting thousands of consumptives to the state. Immigration work continues. Generals Bu and Gary and John Chasey head the South Dates and Fmmig Association, raising 250000 by subscribers prizes. A remarkable civic enterprise is praised by a prominent speaker. Brother Brock’s marriage saga ends with a Cambellite Church alignment after ecclesiastical discipline and a breach of promise suit.
A fragment discusses desire for money and ways to obtain it, mentioning Great American Co and rent payment options. It references agents, locales like John and Nassau in New York, and suggests using county free as agent. The text implies selecting smarter methods over current approaches.
Weekly financial roundup lists numerous commodity prices. Corn at per bushel. oats per bushel. pork mess per barrel. bacon shoulder rib and ham prices. lard per pound. butter and cheese notes. potatoes and onions per barrel. apples per barrel. Regional market figures for Western markets.
Public notice from Lake Charles dated October 24, 1871, submits an estimate of old debt and current stores of Grand and Petit for the year end totaling 5995 877 dollars. Clerk P. Jury reports the figures.
The text presents a garbled notice about a trial for a device called the Machine. It claims no one parts with the machine after trial, and insists buyers pay and keep it without purchasing until all have seen their moxer's outline. A low price is offered on plausible terms at a referenced location.
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