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Newspaper

The Weekly Echo

Location

Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 06, 1869

Page

2

Narmax Havwa's Offers Best and Cheapest Goods

Our Excnayars announce mail communications be fore. We have not topes since exchanges of October. We have always sent arty via Galveston KC Wade 9 Has Wisk SPemanal ery perience. You can buy the best and cheapest goods of all sorts at Narmax Havwa's opposite Pujo's wharf. You will be waited on with urbane and business-like capacity, and gain confidence from our people. Call and examine before you buy elsewhere.

Arty Galveston KC Wade Narmax Havwa Pujo

Regular U.S. mail returns to East parish after long gap

A Louisiana paper notes the first regular weekly U.S. mail arrival since October, delivered by horseback from Mermentau to East. Letters to Texas must go via New Orleans. Citizens hope for faster service and improved mail forwarding. A second item recounts a barber anecdote from China involving a brusque shaving method and a comically harsh neck and back beating.

Texas New Orleans Mermentau Co Isa Lake Charles China Parsons

Handwr iting quirks and a Grecian Bend tale

A jumble of 19th century notes covers handwriting differences across nations and a Canadian Spectator tale warning smugglers. The piece recaps how national style lingers in writing, then shares a Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway episode where a Grecian Bend on a first class coach leads to a lighthearted sting about customs and marriage.

Hamilton Canada Buffalo and Lake Huron United States

Scotch engineer discovers method to produce light from coal mix

A Scotch engineer reports a method to produce intense light by mixing common coal with a atmospheric material. Under ordinary conditions the reaction is stable, but heat amplifies the glow greatly, causing the mixture to flash briefly before dimming.

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