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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), June 29, 1895

I The Old Friend And the best friend that nevex fails you is Simmons Liver Bevu lator the Bed Zthats what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine and people should not be persuaded that anything else will do 1 It is the King of Liver Medi cines is better than pills and takes the place of Quinine and CalomeL It acts directly on the Liver Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole sys tem This is the medicine you want Sold by all Druggists in Liquid or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea n EVEYT PkCKAGCK ga FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive ar pente of land dust below Perrys Bridge having a front of 5 arpents on the Vermilion river by a depth of 31 arpents This property is intersected by the public road leading directly to Perry and Abbeville has several beautiful building sites is finely wooded and will make a rich sugar farm It is partly improved having considerable fencing upon it a dwelling house and other buildings Terms Cash or time granted as pur chaser desires Any further information may be had by applying

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 6, 1895

TheOld Friend And the best friend that never fails you is Simmons Liver Regu lator the Red Zthats what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine and people should not be persuaded that anything else will do It is the King of Liver Medi cines is better than pills and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel It acts directly on the Liver Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole sys tem This is the medicine you want Sold by all Druggists in Liquid or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea EVERY PACKAGU1Mi MmtheZ Smtin 3 on wrSpg FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive ar pents of land dust below Perrys Bridge having a front of 51 arpents on the Vermilion river by a depth of 31 arpents This property is intersected by the public road leading directly to Perry and Abbeville has several beautiful building sites is finely wooded and will make a rich sugar farm It is partly improved having considerable fencing upon it a dwelling house and other buildings Terms Cash or time granted as pur chaser desires Any further information may be had by applying

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 20, 1895

Besides hundreds of bells weigh ing from 10000 to 25000 pounde Nankin China has four bells which each weigh 50000 puunds They are nearly 12 English feet each in theight and are aknost 28 feet in diameter The metal in thesemon sters averages about 56 inches in thickness throughout being about 8 inches on the lower lip or rim In Pekin there is a chime of seven bells each of which weighs 120000 pounds Deaifless 4amt be Cared by local applicatikous as they cannot reac thodisinease port on of the ear There one way to cure deafness and thatbyn ecy constitutional remedies Deafness is aned by an intitmed condition of the mu cous lining of tbrhFustachian Iube When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing and when it is entirely closed Deafoess is the resalt and unless the iOflamation san be tiken eut and this tube restored so its normal condi lion hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucons surfaces F J CHENEY CO Teledo4 Sold by Druggist seventy five oente The Abshire Reprieve Much has been said

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), September 14, 1895

State Finances The highest test that can be ap plied to the administralon of public affairs in the condition of the State finances the manner and method of their handling and the results that followed as the expiration of a term of office approaches We propose to submit some facts concerning the management of Louisianas finances that willI be startling to the enemies of the ad ministration and that will rove to 9 arguments more potent than any idle words of praise that could be bestowed arguments unanswerable to the minds of all lovers of wise or good government At the beginning of this adminis tration there were outstanding 486000 of past due unpaid coupons every dollar of which has been retired asd provided for There were outstanding warrants for 1884 85 and 86 amounting to 840000 and this entire amount has melted away under the present administration There have been retired and paid dn full 512400 of interest bearing tate bonds maturing in 1914 thus reducing annually 20480 in in terest alone which the State would have had to pay and aggregating a total saving in interest of about a half million dollars Today there in not a dollar

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 5, 1895

dome unfounde i reports have spread misinforination ab nt the rites to he charged by hoteis and boarding houses at Atlanta during the Cotton States and International Exposition Mr Alex W Smith Chief of the Public Comfort Depart meat makes this statement tor pub lication Atlanta Ga ug 25 1895 Mr Walter G Cooper Chief De partmcutlf Publicity and Prom otion Atlanta Ga DEAR inReferring to the ed itorial comment of the Savannah Morning News to the effect that boarding house keepers have an nounced an increase in their rates I beg to state that this department has received no intimation of any such intention and not one single person who has registered accom wodation with the department has given any notice of an increase I take pleasure in announcing through you to the public at large that sufficient accomodations have been secured through the efforts of the Public Comfort Department to adequately and comfortable care for the average attendance upon the Exposition The rates for such accommodation at the regular hotels will be from one dollar to three dollars per day European plan and from two to five dollars per day American plan In the lodging and boarding houses

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 12, 1895

Coutona During the week under review the only signi ication change in the con dihlns surrounding the cotton market has been the appearance of Eiglish and Continental spinners as large buyers of actual cotton Sales of spot cotton in Liverpool since Friday the 13th inst are estimated at 54000 bales as against 43000 bales for the preceding week This icreaie in the demand for actual cotton is attributable to a disposi tion on the part of spinners to give inore credence to the reports of crop damage on this bide the water The result of this increased demand for cotton has been to stimulate pri ces and yesterday the high water mark for the week namely 8 27 for January was reached On Friday last January contracts sold at 8 19 but mnder liquidating sales induced by the lack of speculative demand jfr cotton prices gradually receded until on Monday the 16th inst enlee were made at 796 Snite that time however Europe appears to have awakened to the fact that perhaps after all there is more truth in the reports of crop damage then they have heretofore be willing to acknowledge This fact is evidenced by their increased purchasea

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), November 2, 1895

WTine Words ipid is a crank The exception is the rule The real hero is born that way The weary sinner is the surest penitent Some hearts grow softer by hard knocks The wilder the species the read ier to produce The loveliest things are those somebody else gets Every positive delight is a cause for possible repining Kioses are the pouctuation marks in the charter of love Suspicion is the fire at which fools light their intelligence Womaun hysterical tendency has lost her many a kingdom A man loobos everything when he wins a womans contempt The re ellion of the body is pun ished with disinheritance of the soul A man must ask for a womans hand but the heart goes without the asking The procrastinator will get to the graveyard just as soon as the man who hurries No one can tell what toy will de light the heart of the child or the soul of a man There is about as much rejoicing over a good man lost as there is over a bad one saved It is only in popular quotable documeuts that men are born with the constitutional blessing of free dom and equality

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), December 28, 1895

Geo W Jk as editor of the Santa Maria Ti me8 Cal in speak ing of the various ailments of chil dren said When my children have croup there is only one patcnt medicine that I over use and that is Chamberlains Cough Remedy It possesses some medical properties that relieve the little sufferers im mediately It is in my opinion the best cough medicine in the market If this remedy is freely given as soon asthe croupy cough appears it will prevent the attack It is also an ideal remedy for whooping cough There is no danger in giving it to children as it contains nothing iriju For salc by R H Mills Drug Co Limited Valuable Plantation for Sale In one of the most fertile regions of the Parish 280 arpeuts of improved land beautifully situated with a front of 7 arpents on Bayou Tigre by a depth of 40 arpenis located partly in Ver milion and Iberisparishes within two miles from a railroad depot and bordering on a navigable stream which affords water transportation to gulf ports This land is muited for cotton sugar cane corn and sweet potatoes a portion of it is adapted to cattle

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of Bogalusa enterprise (Bogalusa, La.), July 20, 1916

HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE Alfter Four Years of Discouraging Conditions Mrs Bullock Cave Up in Despair Husband Came to Rescue Catron Kyln an interesting letter from this place Mrs Bettie Bullock writes as follows I suffered for four years with womanly troubles and during this time I could only sit up for a little while and could not walk anywhere at all At times I would have severe pains in my left side The doctor was called in and his treat ment relieved me for a while but I was soon confined to my bed again After that nothing seemed to do me any good FOR THE HOME AND THE SCRAPBOOK SELECTIONS of poetry and SELECTIONS FROM prose humor and pathos rare THE bits of history and interesting facts from week to week EDITORS SCRAPBOOK A The Confederate ReUnion Git my old knapsack Mary and my uniform of gray Git my battered helmet Mary for Ill need them all today Git mny canteen and my leggins reach me down my rusty gun For Im goin out paradin with the boys of 61 Never mind them blood stains Mary never mind them ragged holes It was left there by a bullet

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Library of Congress1896

Image 7 of The Houma courier (Houma, La.), December 5, 1896

The Houma Courier EA5TON DUVAL Publisher HOUMA LOUISIANA STUDY IN PHYSIOGNOMY Lambert W m On af Those Who Knew It AIL Lambert belonged to that class of men who know it all It was his wife Jault She never disputed his state ments and always accepted what he said as gospel So from being a pretty shrewd yet agreeable fellow at the be ginning he became a dogmatist whose utterances were frequently as wild as they were tiresome Still there were a few things in which those who knew him admitted his superiority One of these was the science of phren ology and physiognomy Some philoso phers divide these studies and make two sciences of them but Lambert main tained that they were merely branches of the same thing Be that as it may he took great pride in his ability to ie men up as he put it by studying their features and noting the shape of their heads He even claimed that he could tell a mans occupation by looking at hi face One day Lambert and Barton were riding down town in an open trolley car Upon the front seat and directly facing them sat two men

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Library of Congress1907

Image 2 of The Colfax chronicle (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.), April 27, 1907

The Chronicle COLFAX LOUISIANA Inpure Air The importance of ventilation and of i constant supply of fresh air in liv Ingrooms and wherever man abides whether sleeping or waking has often peen mentioned in these columns Without air life is impossible and un lets that air be moderately pure health cannot be maintained although it is astonishing and a proof of the wonderful adaptation of living beings to their environment to note how great an amount of impure air can be endured with seeming impunity There are two forms of impurity in the air gaseous and solid The gases those resulting from the exhalations from the lungs and in city houses from the little unnoticed leaks from the gas pipes and from defective plumbing are the most injurious For the removal of these says New York Weekly free ventilation from open winodwn and open fireplaces s most efficacious but it is of little service in the removal of the other kind of impurity that is to say the solid particles of matter Justwhich are always floating in the air of houses as well as in that of the streets A beam of sunlight entering through a halfclosed shutter makes visible

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Library of Congress1921

Image 6 of Vernon Parish Democrat (Leesville, La.), December 8, 1921

fer From Backache Pain in Your Side Hear What Mr Youngblood Says Jamestown LaI suffered with my right side back and head A friend erf Vine told me to try Dr Pierces Favorite Prescription and it did me so much good I never get tired of praising it for I be lieve it saved my life I am fortytwo yean old now and my health is very food tho when I think I need a medicine I get the Tavorite Prescription as it is the only medicine I ever got that did ma any good I tried several doctors but none of them helped me Now I am en good healthMrs Ida Young Favorite Prescription is made without aloohol and can be obtained from your nearest druggist in tablets or liquid If Su write Dr Pierce president Invalids otel Buffalo N Y he will give you confidential medical advice free of cost Dont wait a minute if youre ailing A woman begins to show lier age only when she tries to hide it BOSCHEES SYRUP Allaya Irritation Soothes and Heals Throat and Lung Inflammation The almost constant Irritation of a cough keeps the delicate mucous mem brane of the throat

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Image 7 of Vernon Parish Democrat (Leesville, La.), December 8, 1921

I 2 J am y opyright 1921 by the Ball SyndicateInc THE ORGAN EST SynopsisProud possessor of a printing press and equipment the gift of Uncle Joseph to his nephew Herbert Illingsworth Atwater Jr aged thirteen the fortunate youth with his chum Henry Rooter about the same age begins the publication of a fullfledged news paper the North End Dally Ori ole Herberts small cousin Flor ence Atwater being barred from any kind of participation in the enterprise on account of her In tense and natural feminine desire to boss Is frankly annoyed and not at all backward in saying so PART IContinued 2 It was in a sense an original poem though like the greaier number of all literary offerings it was so strongly Inspirational that the source of Its Inspiration might easily become mani fest to a coldblooded reader Never theless to the poetess herself as she explained later in good faith the Tfords Just seemed to come to herdoubtless with either genius or some form of miracle involved for sources of in spiration are seldom recognized by in spired writers themselves She had not long ago been party to a musical Sunday afternoon at her greatuncle Joseph

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Library of Congress1922

Image 3 of Vernon Parish Democrat (Leesville, La.), January 19, 1922

MOTHER Open Child s Bowels with California Fig Syrup Hurry Mother A teaspoonful of California Fig Syrup now will thor oughly clean the little bowels and in a few hours you have a well playful child again Even a cross feverish constipated child loves Its fruity taste and mothers can rest easy be cause It never fails to work all the our bile and poisons right out of the stomach and bowels without griping or upsetting the child Tell your druggist you want only the genuine California Fig Syrup which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle Mother you must say California Refuse any imitation Advertisement Long Distance Sambo in heaven had Just got Ras tus far below on the asbestos ouija board HeUo Rastus how you gettln long Oh Ise havin a fine time Dont haf to work much jest shovel in some coal now and then Hows youall Ise workin purty hard We haf to sweep up de clouds pull in de tabs switch on de light an give de oie sun a shove every mornln How come youall have so much work to do Well sah to tell the truth were kinda

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Library of Congress1918

Image 4 of The Morgan City daily review (Morgan City, La.), October 12, 1918

Personals Mrs Frank Hutchings Sr of Cuero Texas arrived yesterday on a visit to her daughter Mrs C E King Miss Valley Kobicheaux who is attend ing school in New Orleans has returned to her home Mr E M Marques is the guest of her daughter Mrs Brown Borer in Al Mr A Toerner was a visitor to Patter son Friday Mrs F J Morvent of Port Arthur is the guest of her daughter Mrs N J Boudreaux Miss Eunice Beadle of Lafayette is visiting relatives here Mrs R Wbitô has returned from a visit to Franklin Miss W OBrien has returned from New Orleans Mr and Mrs H L Waterbery of De troit were guests of Mr and Mrs Win Krisle Friday Mrs C rSj Lowman and daughter Leona are visiting relatives in Memphis Mrs J Southerland and baby have re turned to their home in Memphis Mr I Greenwald is on the sick list this week Miss Rena Meyer is spending a few davs in New Orleans Mrs W Aueoin of Amelia is a visitor here today Mr H Durand of Gulfport was a visitor here this week Mr E Pollock of New York is a vis itor

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Library of Congress1921

Image 6 of New Iberia enterprise and independent observer (New Iberia, La.), October 8, 1921

MJCKJEpTHE PRINTERS DEVIL Stuck Windows Should Always Be Opened This Way GO ft MOT OH 1W tHAIM i wen mw VUMIPOW VKXHJD ttS AOMU4 9KkMA ffQft ARMLAOAD W D OUT K COACH WTTVA tHfc Jj AU STUCK ru nue Km AooMDoeroa I 5 COMaMMOM GOT ER OPM ih WTHOP au IDEA 0 SB 7 PSVtC 1weM MIMO nV4 lu iT CI ML m ßmh m PROTECTION FOB SUGAR ASSURED Louisianas sugar industry will be protected by a continua 1 tkm of the present emergency tariff untfl the permanent tariff lulls enacted 1 This is the assurance John R Rogers Washington represents tive of the American Cane Glowers association gave 200 members of that organization Thursday afternoon at their an Byi wi pin g Jn the St Charles Intel The present emergency tariff I spires November 27 B but it is j certain Mr Rogers H that a continuing emerg ency tariff bill win be passed about October 15 which will run until the tariff problem is definitely settled A protective tariff has been eon T set on suflar in the house but the cane growers is now In the senate to have the figures tpiied The sugar cane growThis want

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Library of Congress1921

Image 3 of New Iberia enterprise and independent observer (New Iberia, La.), December 3, 1921

THREE DIFFERENT KINDS fkWho marries for love takes iMyiïe marries for the We of convenience takes a mistress who marries for con sideration takes a lady You are loved by your wife re garded by your mistress tol erated by your lady You have ife tor yourself a mistress r four house and its friends for the world Your will agree with you your ress will accommodate your lady will manage you tout wife will take care of your house household your mistress of your house your lady of ap pearances If you are sick your wife will nurse you your mistress will visit you and your lady inquire after your health You take a walk with your wife a ride with your mis tress and join parties with your lady Your wife will share your grief your mistress your money your lady your debt If you are dead your wife will shed tears your mistress lam ent and your lady wear mourn inc A year after death your wife marries again in sit months your mistress and in ix weeks or sooner wh n mourning is over your lady Exchange o X TONIC Orm T mMmi chid Tonic mtm

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Library of Congress1912

Image 3 of The true Democrat (Bayou Sara [La.]), December 7, 1912

PERSONAL BUT POLITE E S Quinn is here this week Mrs George H Wilcox has been quite ill this week with grippe Miss Edwina Raynham leaves to night for the State Normal W P Craddock was here Sunday for the day Miss Lily Mims of New Orleans is a isitor at the Rectory Miss Irene Wadsworth spent the weekend4 in Jackson Miss Jessie Ball was the weekend guest of Misses Mary and Lily Too raen Miss Helen Johnson spent the weekend with Miss Lenora Mahoney at Forest Cadet Edward Newsham and guest Cadet Roberts left Monday for L S U Miss Belle Lawrason is a guest at Judge Lawrasons to remain till after Christmas Miss Amelia Barrow returned Thurs day from a visit to relatives in New Orleans Mr and Mrs J P Newsham have returned from a stay of several days in New Orleans Mr and Mrs F B Dennett had as their guest Mr Diebokl of the U S ship Kansas last week Dr Cusachs of New Orleans is the guest of Mr and Mrs E G Westmorland Mrs M C Forrester returned Thursday from Clinton where she has been visiting relatives for sever al months Ruffln Barrow

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