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The Progress. Volume 6-No 43. SHREVEPORT. LA, .October 30, 1897. Price 5 Cents 1873-BUSIIESS PARALLEL.-1397 is IE The r. ewspapers of all cities are W ' taken by the people as a reflex of oDA the condition of the communities in which they are issued. If they Dr; look healthy and prosperous, the E reader will very naturally conclude E that the city where it is published Re is prosperous. On the other hand s n a newepaper that does not contain MO a liberal proportion of the business cards or its citizens, cannot be ex pected to carry abroad an impres- W sion of prosperity and progress iveness-which its very appear ance belies-however much it may Mt puff and blow the town. These thoughts were inspired by Jo a comparison of the Shreveport p Times of November 15th, 1873, Hc then, as now, the leading daily H newspaper of North Louisiana, D with its issue of Sunday, October w st 24, 1897. st The business conditions are all E in favor of the present, but the E issue of 1879, published in the E jmast of one of the greatest yellow fewer epidemics known, presents a spirit of enterprise sorely lacking g in the business men of the present, C or else our much boasted growth j, isa myth. We give below, in parallel, the uuamber of home advertisements auooined in the two issues at L hat and iavite the attention of p r eaders to the lack of business or lack of enterprise, thus exhit by the merchants of a grow a itlroad center. A tioneer. S. - None. ~ Jl Adrhitdcts and Bil ders. Boulmc 19gj, ser w S'. Nw la.IaI Tn. SBoo- and S.oes. sý ýaeem. r. P.aore ao... A Car JAL 71 ý1mk. mP·'ii Druggists. 1878. 1897. 187 IE Ward, EG Beard & Co., Hora WT Fleming, F W Bowers, Bogel & Durringer, City Hall Pharmacy, 187 TH Monrris. E J Conger CH Morris & Dickson. Dry Goods, Clothing and Millinery Nui 1873. 1897. E A Buhlaw, Carrol Cahn, Nul E and B Jacobs, SG Dreyfus & Co. N Rierson & Gragard, Florsheim Bros. o., Dreyfus Bros Kahn Dry Goods Co., par 8 Dreyffuas & o., Bigart & Co., Florsheim Bros, M Levy & Son pre Moch & Weil. Jordan & Booth, Nelson & Co. Furniture. cre4 1873. 1897. evil Wm Enders. None. cit. Groceries, Produce, Etc. Z 1878. 1897. off SMundy & Collins, Henry Rose, fro Gregg &Ford, R H Lindsay, WH Elstner W T Taylor, the r John L Gill & Co., Hicks & Co., James R Arnold Ardis & Co., Phelps Bros. & Co., Foster & Glassell, pi , Hoss & Noel, Goldstein, Mabry & McCutchen&H~agood, Co., for SHicks & Howell, W i Ogilvie, les D B Martin, Hunter Bros., Boissean & Ford, W P Leary, of r Wm M Marshall, Andrew Querbes, W Stacy & Poland, Hamilton & Co., ( i E & B Jacobs, EJ of ee EDIMlellar. Sale & Murphy. po a Hardware. we 187. 187. ye . H HLee &Co., Vondenbauman & y t, Conway&Buckelew, Eastham. fri tC W Burt ~ CWBU4~ afa James F t.9 Insurance. e 173. 1U7. SLA Pirese _ B& HPrasoott, p WinDaman, B edfield & Wm BSeas, t Penick & Ford, C8 ,Lie Ass'not America, Pf Piedmont & Arlington. SJewelers. *t- 187. 1857. ci VS- It, Leon Moarter, IP' P FL Frank..& Liquors, Tobaccos, Etc. a 173. 1897. A DroWin, None.W Mdooe, F Vasquez, James tLompston. Lumber. Ws. 31387. T W Jones, Victoria Lambar Co., a Machine Shops. a 1is7. i .. b OLbCSlhambriS. WK He Andron. al Marble Yards. t 1a7s. 18s7. Wmi Kinney. Downs & Newman. Music. b 187. 1897. cd MS Donaldson, Edward Petach. Real Estatie Agents. e 1s87. 8a7. J GDmWn Sl acery & 1 ThOemal s llip, la, . IA eP nd AW C Perrin, Schools. 1373. 1857. Cmi, Ablr~ebodaI, 3oa i- a.. jPa JCkiLEklllk- ·.:·iW Wagons, Saddlery, Etc. 1873. 1897. ;1 Horan & Looney. Snyder Wagon Co. mal Wood and Coal. 1873. 1897. CH Bosworth, FM Currie. fire TOTAL NUMBER OF ADDS. rec Number of home ads: 1873-91 slit Number of home ads: 1897-51 E Nor can it be said that this dis- 18t parity is in any manner due to the set present management of the paper of -whose enterprise has made it a wa credit to the city-but is painfully of evident in the columns of all our en city papers. wc This is the season of the year to inl offer inducements to get business on from abroad, and the columns of me the newspapers are the channels pl through which it must be accom- or 8 plished. The railroadss-if we had ar forty-will not bring business un- ip less added by the natural agencies at of commerce-the prime mover of A which is advertising. ti Gentlemen of '97, can you not di emulate the spirit of the men su of '73, and keep Shreve- he port's business interests before the re world. Don't let a small sized m yellow fever soare 700 miles off h+ a frighten you so badly that you are afaid to let the people know that p you are still in business. st THE PROGRESS is the people's tl paper and always champions the t cause of Shreveport. d as: CLEVELAND IN THE SENATE. If Grover Cleveland should de- : cide to enter the roll for United ti States Senator from New Jersey g and should be elected, the Nation ti would pity the Nutmeg State. It t would be an awful affliction upon 1 the people of that Commonwealth, b but it would be a just retribution t sent on that overgrown egotist. In )o., a body of statesmen, men of cour- a age and ability, where each will t be on an equality, we think he will c find himself in far warmer quarters $ than when he, as President, had the vantage ground, and exercised f his powers to co-erce men into 3 doing his bidding by loyalty to party. But the positions changed, 1 each having an equal showing, we think the world would soon I & learn that Grover Clevelend Is not a great man. But he has too much sense to stand, aye he has. Is there any harm in saying, go to the davil ? The right side. Which side Is the rglht side of a q oesto? Ah, ·Py.- sr~· .,ao~..C )Isss Birdie Doll. Miss Birdie Doll is dead. To many this news was told by last Sunday morning's papers for the first time, and regretfully it was received by many whb were only slightly acquaintcd with her. She had but recently passed the 18th bower in life's garden and seemed a flower plucked from one Sof her richest jewels. Miss Doll I was one of those favored daughters r of our Southland, who is specially r embellished with sweetest traits of womanhood. She was winsome, Sintelligent, cultured, thoughtful; 5 one who sees in life an object, f more than to exist or seek personal a pleasure. She was an idol in her - own home because she was so I amiable, patient, solicitous, antic - ipating, pleasing alike to sisters s and brothers as well as to parents. ºf A sweet, gentle Christian disposi tion was hers and her patient en )t durance of her long illness and n suffering but mellowed in a Shallowed humility, the nature al ie ready ennobled by an ambition to ,d make life a coronation of God's if handiwork. re Sweetly and peacefully she at passed away, knowing that the sands of life were passing through 's the glass of time and fully prepared le to meet her God. Lovingly, tn-' derly she talked to her parents sad sisters and brothers of the better way, of the home beyond. the e- skies; and just after 2 o'clock on 8 the morning of last Sunday her Y glorified soul was released from n the earthen temple and she was It transported to that abode not on made with hands, which Christ h, has prepared for those who love, >n trust and serve Him. In From the Holy Trinity Sanat-e tr- azy her funeral was onoaduted in ill the afternoon of that beautitml rill Sabbath, a fit complement for the ers solemn, yet holy oocealon. ad To the father, our personal led friend, to the dear mothr and ito relatives, all, THE PoEsSS will to say God bless you in your be reavement; but will likewise say Bd, that such a death is worth more ag, than all life holds dear; for it on leaves behind footprints which aot lead to Heaven, to Glory, to God. On April 28, 1685, at a town to meeting, the people of a little set tlement called Boston, on Maaes chusetts Bay, voted to open a free go public school. The Boston Jour nal says that the school was held of Cornhill, near W ustreet. Boston peopelt thais w aks the r h;