The Weekly Echo Flea Market Spotlight
The Weekly Echo highlights a Gro. W. W. Wrigley flea market event featuring local vendors and unusual finds. Attendees report bargain prices, antique goods, and a small crowd around the sunlit stalls today.
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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1869
Page
2
The Weekly Echo highlights a Gro. W. W. Wrigley flea market event featuring local vendors and unusual finds. Attendees report bargain prices, antique goods, and a small crowd around the sunlit stalls today.
Readers are urged to consider the City Mutual Life Insurance Company of St. Louis Minnesota. Its officers and directors are men of high standing and their stated guarantees aim to fulfill all promises to policyholders. A census note claims hog and pork crops will be down. market predictions caution on hog prices and pork supply for the season.
A speaker recalls a chaotic tale of a scare, a dog terror, and a tough crowd. The narrative shifts through memory of a big dog, a pile of mischief, and a boyish boast about surviving mishaps. The mood is rural, rough humor, and vivid action from a bygone day.
Fragmentary notes discuss shifting responsibility from dependent individuals to self reliance. The text critiques ill grounded hopes and reliance on others, likening the burden to a railroad car and a heavy man leaning on one's shoulder. Energetic men are urged to seek self sufficiency rather than depend on others.
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James Cole administrator calls on creditors and debtors to settle debts of Rascecan succession. French notices warn all concerned in Calcasion Parish and George H Wells of Lake Charles to come forward for immediate payment. Published Oct 7.
By writ of fi fa in the suit Daniel Goos vs Austin Clifton the Lake Charles parish sheriff offers for cash sale the Underwood buildings property five acres on the Calcasien river west side, including store house dwelling office and furnishings, at the parish courthouse during legal hours in September 1869.
At the last residence of Solomon Bon dec'd in Hickory parish a succession sale will auction the movable estate on October 20 1869. The parcel includes 125 bushels of corn a crop and other crops plus household goods farming tools horses oxen sheep and numerous other items. All cash for amounts up to 10 dollars. larger purchases on credit with promissory notes bearing interest and two solvent sureties.
Taxpayers within Lake Charles limits are warned not to pay parish taxes to any person except under an approved codicil or as revised by the Police Jury of Calcasieu Parish or by state act authority. The notice references an 1867 act and the town of Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish with signatures including J. W. Bryan and others, dated October.
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