New Orleans Leads Louisiana Income Tax Returns in 1930
New Orleans filed 17,885 of Louisiana's 34,469 income tax returns in 1930, down from 18,435 in 1929. Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Monroe and other cities contributed smaller figures as parishes list Orleans atop the totals with Caddo and East Baton Rouge also high.
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Washington
New Orleans
Louisiana
Internal Revenue Bureau
Shreveport
Baton Rouge
Monroe
Alexandria
Lake Charles
Lafayette
Crowley
Mansfield
Ruston
New Iberia
Bastrop
Natchitoches
Hammond
Opelousas
Houma
Bogalusa
Minden
Orleans
Caddo
East Baton Rouge
Ouachita
Rapides
Calcasieu
Jefferson
Acadia
St. Landry
Tangipahoa
Benwood Town Walls In Gloom Over Billiard Closures
In Benwood West Virginia once 12 billiard parlors fed recreation for many men in the 4000 population now taxes forced closures. The town turns to checkers and old football memories as winter looms and recreation dries up.
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Benwood
Roosevelt Receives Horse Tail Gift From Family Memorabilia
In Albany on December 28 a Christmas gift to President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was a horse tail once owned by Gloster the trotter. Gloster, famous in 1870, first trotted a mile under 2.20 before a railroad accident. A Goshen admirer preserved the tail for sixty years and sent it to Roosevelt for display beneath a portrait of the horse.
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Albany
N. Y
U.P
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gloster
Roosevelt
Leland Stanford
Goshen
City Court Dockets Dispos ed for Disturbances and Drunkenness
Yesterday in city court Eugene Wilson was fined 10 dollars for disturbing the peace Floyd Bonner 10 dollars for fighting Lemon Wood 25 dollars for possessing whiskey A W Harl icks 50 dollars for driving while intoxicated Harry Bateman 750 dollars suspended for drunk and disorderly A Hirsch three days for drunk and disorderly.
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Eugene Wilson
Floyd Bonner
Lemon Wood
A. W. Harlicks
Harry Bateman
A. Hirsch
Louisiana Millionaires Decline With 1930 Low Mood
A revenue bureau report shows Louisiana had 65 millionaires in 1930 down from 135 in 1929 as the long downturn hit wealth. The state filed 34,649 returns, with 1,670 showing no taxable income, and total net income across returns reaching 33,217,314 dollars.
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Washington
Louisiana
Revenue Bureau
United States
Despondent man hanged himself in New Orleans home
Christopher Williams, 56, sent his wife to a neighborhood store then hanged himself with a rope tied to a transom in his residence. Police said he was despondent over unemployment.
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New Orleans
Christopher Williams
Rankin Among 10 Congressmen Granted Leaves of Absence
Washington December 28 Representative Rankin of Mississippi was among ten congressmen given leaves of absence due to illness as the house reconvened after the Christmas holiday.
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Paramount Theatre
Star—World
Washington
Rankin
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Todays Amusements at the Paramount and Capitol
Paramount features Cary Grant in Madame Butterfly as Geisha entertainment captivates U S Navy officers in Japan scene. Capitol shows Spencer Tracy in Me And My Gal with Joan Bennett. Strand presents 70000 Witnesses filmed on campus with eight cast and director having college backgrounds.
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Paramount
Japan
Cary Grant
Grant
Millard Fillmore
United States
Nippon
B. F. Pinkerton
United States Navy
Paramount Theater
Sylvia Sidney
Cho-Cho-San
Matthew C. Perry
Uraga
Perry
Orient
Capitol
Spencer Tracy
My Gal
Capitol Theater
Joan Bennett
Tracy
Miss Bennett
Marion Burns
Henry B. Walthall
J. Farrell Macdonald
Noel Madison
Raoul Walsh
Strand
West Monroe
Strand Theater
Phillips Holmes
Dorothy Jordan
Johnny Mack Brown
Charlie Ruggles
Student Night At First Church Highlights Chilean Mission Speaker
First Baptist church hosts student night at 7 45 featuring Miss Berta Ward from Concepcion Chile as principal speaker. Ward, two year in the U S, earned an M A at the University of Texas and trains for missionary work, sharing experiences from Chile. Other participants include Miss Jessie Richardson Rev H C Hooter and Charles Freeman. Public invited.
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First Baptist Church
Berta Ward
Baptist Women
Fort Worth
Texas
Chile
Jessie Richardson
H. C. Hooter
Charles Freeman
Acadia Academy
South
Passengers To Celebrate Two New Years On Lincoln
The Dollar liner President Lincoln en route from Yokohama to San Francisco will cross the international date line at the 180th meridian on January 1. Eastbound travelers gain a day, making January 1 aboard the ship twice. The liner will be the last to greet 1933 in the eastern hemisphere and first to welcome the new year in the western hemisphere.
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San Francisco
U.P
President Lincoln
Yokohama
St John’s Day Celebration by King Solomon Lodge No 1
King Solomon lodge No 1 colored A F and A M held St John’s Day observances at the K of P hall DeSiard and Eleventh streets. L A Jackson read a proclamation and Dr O V Cooper spoke on Brotherhood. 1933 officers were installed.
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ST. John’s
King Solomon Lodge No. 1
K. of P. Hall
DeSiard
Eleventh Streets
L. A. Jackson
O. V. Cooper
Firing Remark Traces Tenuous Reason at Work
A boss dismisses Miss Smith with the sharp line You are fired. The secretary protests I haven't done nothing. The boss replies That is the reason, a curt exchange echoed in Il Travaso Barr.
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Miss Smith
Wilbur Treats Self and Wife to Big Holiday Trip
Secretary Wilbur uses government funds for a 1200 mile Christmas inspection trip to Florida with his wife aboard the official Packard and chauffeur. Officials note the Everglades park matter has Cabinet and Senate scrutiny, and the trip delays do not affect progress.
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Wilbur
Self
Wife
Raymond Clapper
United Press
Washington
Interior
Hoover
Florida
Packard
Department of the Interior
Columbus Park
Miami
Everglades Park
Stanford University
Interior Department
Department of Interior
Senate
House
Everglades
Sea Gulls Learn to Ride Tide Back to Coastal Homes
New Orleans December 28 Sea gulls foraging in the gulf off the Louisiana coast now ride in with the tide to return to Barataria bay instead of flying home at sundown Forrest Durand of the state department of conservation noted the birds rode several miles up the bay and appeared to have learned to catch the current to reach inland roosts.
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New Orleans
Gulf
Louisiana
Forrest Durand
State Department of Conservation
Sundown
Barataria Bay
Poetical Exchange On A War Ship Scene
A lady touring a man of war asks about a mark on the deck. God explains the mark marks the captain’s battlefield death. The lady quips that she nearly tripped over it herself, noting its prominence and danger.
Honor Roll List From Tucker School Honors Fall Term
The Tucker school honor roll for the fall term’s second six weeks is announced by Miss Myrtle E. Rodgers. Names span grades 3 to 6 and include students such as Henry Sandman Jack Atchison Eleanor Brown Mary Guy and Louis Masur among many others. A closing anecdote notes a lady rushing to the post office to buy ten dollars in two cent stamps as prices rise.
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Tucker School
Myrtle E. Rodgers
Princial Same
Henry Sandman
Lloyd Steen
W. P. Scalia
Windsor Greens
Miller Cragon
Harry Bell
Laura Louise Patton
Jean Parsons
Je Newman
Nadia Meadows
Inezland
Maxine Hellman
Marjorie Fisher
Mary Evelyn Durden
Mary Jane Dickard
Mary Jane Davis
Jeanette
Sarah Reagan
Gay Noe
Kathleen Myers
Ellen Leigh Martin
Mignon Griffing
Patricia Collina
Marilyn Bradford
Clark Ramsaur
Laura Flournoy
Marg Porie Florench
Juanita Lippmin
Sue McBride
Adelaide Parker
Joy Fettit
Charles Chambers
Seah DeLee
Tim Heninger
Armand McHenry
Howard Marx
Jack Noland
J. B
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Roscoe Karns
Lew Cody
Gregory Ratoff
the Paramount
Helen Hayes
Gary Cooper
Adolph Menjou
Janet Gaynor
Lydell Peck
Oakland, Cal
Miss Gaynor
Associated Press
First Church
Company
Bernhardt
NEW York Cleaners
DeSiard St
Collens Pharmacy, Inc
DeSiard Street
North Third Street
Quachita Parish
Llens
Collens-Thompson Co., Inc
Frances Hotel
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