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Library of Congress1868

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), August 15, 1868

THE BOSSIER BANNER THK C XSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES IS JO THE DEMOCRATIC FARTY WHAT THE BIULK 18 TO THE CHRISTIAN REMOVIN T T R MS The Bossier Banner will be issued every Saturday uiorninç Subscription per an num Three Dollarsin advance TwoDol lam for six mouths for three months Advertisements inserted at 1 jier square of ten lines nr less first insertion50 cents for each anbsequrut insertion Cards of one square or less10 per nimm Nix months7 50 Three months 5 Announcements of Candidates tor office 10 t Obituary notices when exceeding a square will be charged as advertisements ry All articles published for the benefit of parties or individuals at their own solic itation will be charged for as advertise ments BEÎÏivÏÏETlX Saturday August 15 1868 FOR PRESIDENT Horatio Seymour of New York FOR VICKPRESIDENT Francis P Blair Jr of Missouri Club Rates We desire agents throughout the 1arisb Any ofour friends who will act as agents lor the Haulier are authorized to do so at the following rates 5 Copies for 12 10 20 The getter up of a club of ten subscriWrs will be entitled to an extra copy gratis Ko deduction from our regular

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Library of Congress1914

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), November 5, 1914

The Bossier Banner W H SCANLAND Editor and Proprietor BENTON LA Thursday November 5 1914 KILLING TIME No rightminded person hears without a certain shock the common expression to kill time It suggests a crime almost equal to those of which the law takes ac count Fur time is the stuff of life and to kill time is to kill life Who in his senses would ever think or talk of murdering his potential self In view of the varied and fascinating interests that may enter into a human ca reer it is strange indeed that anyone should consider time as something to be killed and gotten rid of There is surely use enough for every minute vouchsafed to us in this mortal career A person nor mally occupied finds each day too short for the opportunities presented The wiseman counts the precious moments of the day as a miser counts his golden coinsbut only to see how they may wisely be spent not selfishly hoarded We come into the world with a double endowmentwith work to do and with suitable time in which to do it There is time enough for the task but not too much If time

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Library of Congress1914

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), December 31, 1914

The Bossier Banner W H SCANLAND Editor and Proprietor j rr 777 BENTON Thursday December 31 1914 _____ I BEGINNIN G THE NEW EAR _ __week Always there is something impressive about the last of anything for the mere suggestion of finality sobers the finite mind Always a sense of parting sweeps r one just before the bells ring as they j 1 ove will tonight Whether as from friend or foeand surely no year ever passed without some friendlinesswe part thoughtfully and looking back we dwell for at least a little while upon the fullnessor emptiness of the last mile marked for us on the course Alwaysif we look closely enoughwe can see something to encourage us in the effort which will betaken up anew tomor row And this is true even though the backward glance reveals a seemingly un interrupted succession of mistakes and failings For tomorrow we shall have another chance and tomorrow the mistakes and stumblings of yesterday will serve as a guide and keep us from so faltering in the progress we long to make What a fine and helpful thing is this closing of the old set of books this open ing of the

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Library of Congress1888

Image 4 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), July 12, 1888

TAL AGES SERMON A Discourse on the Palpit and Press as Allies The Power of the Press for Good or Evil The Folly of Antagonizing ItA Force that Should be Culti vated and Promoted Rev T DeWitt Talmage preached a sermon in Brooklyn Tabernacle on the Pulpit and Press Made Allies taking for his text The children of this world are in their gener ation wiser than the children of light Luke xvi 8 He said Sacred stupidity and solemn incompetency and sanctified laziness are here reVuked by Christ He says world lings a wider awake for opportunities than are Christians Men of the world grab occasions while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift by unimproved This is the meaning of our Lord when He Bays f The children of this world are in their genera tion wiser than the children of light A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular printing press The oppor tunity is open and has for some time been open but the ecclesiastical courts and the churches and the ministers of re ligion are for the most part

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Library of Congress1875

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), January 2, 1875

BOSSIER BANNER K Imitai Editor aal Propr The Bowes Basses is published every SoI srt sy aamlng Subscription 3 per atBBSBit 91 90 for six mouths snd 75 cents Forud rertis ei o ents inserted in news ool mas 25 e entsp sr tine ibr ch insertion VÄho eAargea Oss s ss e is cEudidatss for oiw isn ri sblr In advance10 Adrertieements inserted for specified time und discontinued by the advertiser be fore thot tune expires will be charged at the regular rates for the time and space occupied and not pro rata ratés of the time far which the advertisement was originally All advertisements and Subscriptions are twos presentation unless otherwise oou traetedfor All cireulars communications and cards at candidates or official aspirants and other matter intended for personal benefit will be cha rge d for at the rate of 10 cents per line cash in advance of first insertion Simple annonneessents of marriages and deaths mads gratis Obituarr notices tril ntea of nspeet resolotiens of public meet toigs fo e will luéchatgod the same as ad vnrmsameats No improper offirasively personal or offimrwfae objeetional matter Inserted on aayterma _ Subscription 3 Per Annum lla AdTfinoeii BELLEVUE LOUISIANA

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Library of Congress1899

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), February 16, 1899

mt mmt W H Scanland Bditor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA Thureday t February 16 1899 Cleveland Ohio will model her school system after that in vogue at St Louis________ Friday the Senate passed the House bill to establish a national military park at Vicksburg Miss Baltimore has about twofifths of the population of Maryland and pays about twothirds of the taxes The report of the United States treasury for January shows a deficit of about 9500000 for that month The North Carolina Legislature has passed a law making all contracts made by or with trustt null and void An epidemic of spotted fever or cerebro spinal meningitis was re ported raging at Morgantown Ky last we ek _ The Amerioan forces in front of Manila made an attaok on Calooean village last Friday and reduced it in short o rder _ It was so cold in Pittsburg Penn Friday that the ears of bogs in stock oars were frozen so stiff that they dropped off William Laird of the shipbuilding firm wbieh built the Confederate war Teasel Alabama died at Liverpool on the 7th inst The cost of the addmistration of the affairs of Cuba during the month of January

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Library of Congress1880

Image 4 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), October 14, 1880

Matrimonial Aeneies in Paris Under an assumed name my friend went to the Paris residence of M deF the celebrated marriage broker and having paid the preliminary fee of 40 explained that he came on behalf of a cousin who although possessed of a handsome fortune and good title was anxious to increase his worldly goods by contracting a wealthy marriage My friend further asserted that he acted in his own name and without the authority of his cousin but that the consent of the latter should anything acceptable be proposed he could answer for M de F at first demurred and asserted that he was not in the habit of dealing with less than at least one person di rectly interested in a matrimonial pro ject but my friends eloquence not to speak of the thousandfranc note at length prevailed and the great matri monial agent unbosomed himself His terms were eight per centum on the dot and this to be paid within the first year after the celebration of the marriage Of course my friend con sented Then M de F explained that should nothing be definitely decided on and the attempt fail nofurther expenses would be incurred

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Library of Congress1879

Image 3 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), December 11, 1879

mm K gosßw e 1 belleV ira LA jpSOAV LEW r SHREVEPORT Court very srooil Busnu ou paid your taxes r Have u or Dill Ao i PDCEW BER 11 18yf j Jt is j j 1 Bellevue prior high figures I Bellevue merchants enjoyed a djtradeduring all of the past 1 j Bellevue Masonic Lodge will jUkir officers for ensuing year wtoy __ _____ SfÜniag to people laying in tir supplies our merchants are good jiisiuess IfBeiuember Henry Dreyfuss jonShreveport when you want ef cloHres OEev Mr Ilartfield Kfbed fine sermons hero and Friday nights r Monday was a wet log ni dayone calculated to j rrseii a fit of the blues Kpîhen is a demand for now I i I ässnd dwellings m and around hajMtport merchants in the Ban Aud till the cotton comes in y Bellevue merchants happy jijconUuitctl Everybody is looking for a Christinas is tiie boss cotton SAnnmbcrof legal lights have attendance upon Parish ______ Trance to the Iront and make tart glad when jou sell our i a apt ist Thurs ilfvao Who will build thetnî 1 Our remitrs will do well to id tiie advertisvim nts of t lie Hifis week IFWeljgter

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Library of Congress1908

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), August 13, 1908

IfIf Oi SV Zi îj BANNER VV H SCANLAND Editor and Proprietor 11IITDCn4V rri CT n 1908 1 __ ______ T I DEMOCRATIC TICKET for president William J Bryan of Nebraska for vicepresident John W Kern of Indiana JOHN T mNOKFS FOURTH DISTRICT WATKINS of Webster Parish FOR DISTRICT JUDGE K C DREW of Webster Parish FOR rnSRRICT ATTORNEY JOHN X SANDLIN of Webster Parish MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARD W E CONNELL for Ward One X w SENTELL for Ward Three L C HIGGS forWard Six announcements i 1 I j I t Ilento School anoiiio fi of the school Board irom ward two Mijet I th i um of th Democratic party VO a aiiirirlzed to announce Mr J M HENDERSON liVH It imiIllal tor lwml srrd fward j sbjici to the ac tion ot the Democratic party ll h COUNTRY NEWSPAPER j hy the editor of the Banner and read by Mr fmrid iMtsidcnt of the Louisiana Press As oftun asked What is News Pap rpri jocitin I Ditrn R Kach man answers it according to his way of thinking What one thinks is news mother condems as nonsense My answer is News is Something Worth Telling nil

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Library of Congress1899

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), February 9, 1899

1053t ct fan W H Scanland Editor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA TlwridayFebruary 91899 A terrific cyclone in Lowndes Co Kiss Friday blew down cabins and injured several negroes In the Missouri House Saturday there was a fierce attack on the school book trust and its lobby Robert P Porter advisee that nearly all the United States troops be removed from Cuba by April By a unanimous vote the Minneso ta Senate has declared in favor of the election of Senators by the people Senator Daniel of Virginia made a strong speech in the Senate Friday against expansion and the ratification of the peace treaty Over 818 bills have been introduc ed in the Arkansas legislature up to date The fool killer is not doing his duty up in that State The House Judiciary has decided that General Wheeler and other Con who volunteered in the late war vsoated their seats in Congress A dispatch of the 5th says Texas cattle are dying by the thousands on aeoount of the chilling rains and long oontinned windstorm of last week Reports of thirty persons killed by snowslides Friday came from Bredkenridge Colorado Train ser vioe was still suspended in the mount ains

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Library of Congress1876

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), February 15, 1876

litt lD55ttr garnier SemiWeekly Published Tuesdays and Fridays OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF BOSSIER UARISH BY W H SCANLAND TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION Twelve monthTwo Dollars Six mouths ne Dollar Three monthFifty Cents Five copies twelve months and one to getterup of clubTen Dollars Postage paid by the publisher BELL EVUE LA TUESDAYFebruary 15 1876 Change The time of the quar teily meetings for the North and South flossier Circuits is hereby changed as follows South Bossier at Fillmore April lstand2d North Bossier at Concord April 8th and yth Joel T Daves Presiding Elder The Political Field In the political field this year set your coulter deepplough a straight fur row to the endand if any decayed Badical roots hinder your progress turn them uuder Keep no scare crows but give it your personal su pervision and if any tresspassers come about coaxing you to mix Bad ical dirt with the native soil treat them in a way that they will not be likely to trouble you again With good culture this year we can bury all the insects and verminthat have been eating every green thing we have heretofore raised Spring time is coming and the voice of the turtle is heard

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Library of Congress1893

Image 1 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), March 30, 1893

Established July 1 1859 A Map cf Busy Life Its Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns Subscription 1 a Year in Advance VOLUME 32 BENTON LA MARCH 30 1893 a o s JA ttonicy at Law i iti v Louisiam Snifter Bellevue Bossier jtar A Joan n es Sm i fh ttoruey at Law lieaton Bossier parish A J Ai u rtf Will J pruetiee in the Courts ol Bossier amt adjoitiiut parishes A If Lowry A ttoruev at Law Benton La Will prae tioeintho Courts of Bossier Bienville and Webster parishes Dr AY r AI Abney Physician and Surgeon BENTON LA Office at Drug Store of Benton Drug Co CITY HOTEL MILAM STREET SBBE VEPOll T LO UISIA NA A J REYNOLDS Proprietor Omnibusses Connect with all Trains G W SENTELL W B MCLEAN L K BARBER G W SENTELL JK Gr W Sentell Co Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants No 190 Gravier St New Orleans T M COMEGYS DEJYTIST Offiee on second floor in Zoiliaips Building Adjoining the Opera House Shreveport La O ffice hours from 9 a m to 5 p in ami trom 2 I m to 5 p in Telephone con nection Dr C Ratzburg OFAtlST

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