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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1869
Page
2
The Weekly Echo notes excitement over crystalized oil as a market rival to coal oil. Messrs Beeston and McLean of New Orleans advertise in the column, with eyewitness accounts of flames and safety fears as the new fuel enters the market.
Correspondence describes record rains and extreme winds flooding the bayous and breaking levees. A railroad wharf and lighthouse complex were damaged, boats stranded, and many homes washed away. Secretaries and ministers are referenced, with casualty counts and rescue efforts cited amid broader reports on politics, labor strikes, and Jewish refugee settlement.
In accordance with Section 63 of Act 174, you are authorized and required to close up all establishments whose proprietors fail to comply, place a keeper, and after thirty days if costs and state indebtedness are unpaid, sell to the highest bidder and return the sale to this office. G. M. Wickelift, Auditor. September 23, tf.
Solomon Bona estate in Ames Parish seeks succession and notices a parish judge, David J. Reid, will appoint administrator. The date Sept 25 1869 marks the action. Interest parties are summoned to appear and claim under the probate proceedings.
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