Louisiana supervisor office under fire amid costly tax collection
The Baton Rouge records show the Louisiana supervisor of public accounts collected about 10.7 million dollars in special taxes through December 1, excluding severance tax, with gasoline tax and school millage boosting revenue. The office's high costs and political influence are cited as reasons for abolition or transfer of duties to the state auditor, amid calls for reform and resignations in multiple offices.
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Baton Rouge
Livestock Sanitary Board
Senator Long
State Treasury
GriNks
NSS
State Board of Health
Supervisor of Public Accounts
General Fund
General Highway Fund
Globe
Tax Reform Commission
General Auditor
Louisiana Taxpayers Association
United States
Miss Grosjean
Huey P. Long
Allen
Alice Lee Grosjean
Oscar K. Allen
John B. Fournet
E. A
Bob) Conway
Gaston L. Porterie
Grosjean
W. N. McFarland
Archie M. Smith
Mugwumps Bolt from 1884 Republican Convention
At the 1884 Republican presidential convention reform elements split from the party and adopted the satirical name Mugwumps, embracing the label as their identity.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS AND DOWN CLUES
Puzzle solution lists across and down clues with numbered entries including terms like Tropical American Tree Ocean Scarlet Love to excess and various short forms, archaic terms, and abbreviations. It presents a traditional newspaper style puzzle page with themes spanning general knowledge words and a final solution line.
Doughton Slated for Commission Appointment
Washington news reports Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina known for chairing the Ways and Means Committee is expected to be named to the federal tariff commission within weeks. The appointment, likely after taxation measures pass, would fill the vacancy from the late James W. Collier. Some say Doughton may later become commission chairman succeeding Robert L. O’Brien.
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Washington
Robert L. Doughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means Committee
Federal Tariff Commission
Roosevelt
Coughton
Ways and Means
James W. Collier
Mississippi
Collier
Robert L. O’brien
Massachusetts
Peru the oldest petroleum producer in Africa
Peru is described as the oldest petroleum producing country in South Africa and notes that petroleum is its most important mineral product.
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Peru
South Africa
Boots and Buddies Chronicle Local History Gown
A fragment notes community talk with locals from a small town, detailing oral history efforts and social dynamics. It mentions a person named Kane and suggests a collective push to uncover or record community pasts. The tone implies informal, personal recollections guiding a local project.
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Kane
Four Negroes Held on Burglary Counts in Delhi Case
Four negroes from Monroe were jailed after Tuesday night arrests in Delhi for burglary tied to Illinois Central freight cars and a Delhi store robbery. Huey Dean confessed to Delhi store robbery and freight car entries. Derrick Cumming and a woman identified as Mock faced possession charges, while Sidney Mitchell admitted involvement and had property recovered in a raid.
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Illinois Central Railroad
Delhi
Huey Dean
Derrick Cumming
Sidney Mitchell
Effie Mack
Monroe
Dean
Rayville
Milton Coverdale
Illinois Central
Cumming
Mitchell
Coverdale
Local church meeting notes and pastor listings
Fragments mention a local church service and meeting led by a pastor linked to St. Episcopal and a Baptist church on Breard Street. A committee to select a white church is noted and daily classes at 10 30 a m for people and adults with Flynn as pastor.
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Alexander
Family reunites 33 members on Christmas Day in Rayville
In Rayville Louisiana on Christmas Day Mr and Mrs M H Stevenson aged 72 and 66 were joyfully reunited with their 33 family members including children grandchildren and great grandchildren. They said the gathering was the first in years and expressed gratitude for the extended family reunion. Representatives plan to meet in Jackson Mississippi on Jan 5 to protest proposed supplementary fertilizer and seed industry codes. Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Texas federations call the codes discriminatory and delegates will be chosen to go to Washington on Jan 8 to oppose the clauses.
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Rayville
M. H. Stevenson
Jackson
Miss
Harry J. Kapp
Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Texas
Washington
Farm Cooperatives Will Protest Further Codes
Baton Rouge dispatch notes Wholesale farmer cooperative representatives to protest new codes. The report mentions coastal life-saving stations and brigades, contrasting with the broader wartime home front efforts.
Tarzan the Untamed raft sequence ends with deadly crocodile attack
The raft party halts as a native is dragged by a hippo and a swimmer is seized by a crocodile. Parker, Holt, and Jean aid others while Riano ferries to shore. The group remains fleeing toward land as danger closes in.
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Parker
Holt
Jean
Riano
Riana
Iti
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MR Whoopanholler
Maxine
Boots
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Martin
Sheriff's Department
Erty
Arica
Chile
Little
Orphan Annie
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Trixie
Annie
Gee
Harold Giay
Adas GR
Britain
Tarzan the Untamed
Edar Rice Burroughs
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