Constitution Nears Final Adoption By Louisiana Convention
Baton Rouge June 13 The 1921 Constitutional Convention reports the completed work of 146 delegates is nearly signed and printed in triplicate. The new constitution will be about 135 pages, larger than the 127 page charter, with margins and index to follow, and adjournment sine die expected by Friday. The document expands the judiciary, highway system, and tax scheme including severance taxes, prefixes new suffrage qualifications, public education reforms, and municipal powers. Legislative size drops to 100 in the House and 39 in the Senate, and a state public service commission replaces the railroad commission.
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Baton Rouge
Supreme Court
M. College
Greater Agricultural College
Railroad Commission
State Public Service Commission
Louisiana
Swamp Chill Tonic Boasts Loyal Local Fortunes
Little Creek Louisiana resident Mrs. Tilden extols Swamp Chill Tonic claiming it is essential medicine. Gore Oklahoma resident Mr. Plunkett says it cures chills and keeps a bottle at home. Elmer Park urges every home to own the tonic as a remedy for malaria and fever. Essa Louisiana resident H W Scoggins found a bottle and likes it. Letters arrive daily as dealers promote the tonic priced at 60 cents a bottle.
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Park
H.W. Scoggins
Essa
Paris barbers shave dogs and odd global facts emerge
A string of curious notes reports dog shaving trades in Paris, 1749 deaf and dumb language, wool to cloth ratios, Argentina cattle per person, New York City population gain, red cats in Liberia, Chicago’s large church, sleep recovery time, Montmartre plaster, bees housing, honeycomb cells, porcelain origin, Detroit aeronautics course, Rivoli street spend, edible dogs in China, French kid gloves, Baltic oyster limits, Venice glass workers’ vision loss due to heat and glare.
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Paris
Argentina
New York City
Liberia
Chicago
Plaster of Paris
Montmartre
University of Detroit
United States
Rue de Rivoli
China
Baltic Sea
Venice
Hawthorne’s Salem Home and Literary Persona
Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a Salem native born on July 4 1804. The piece notes his solitary life, his favorite chamber at the family home, and how the house shaped his fiction. It traces his years living in the home from 1808 to 1818 and later periods, linking place to creative work and memory.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
New England
Hawthorne
Shakespeare
Salem
Mass
Sophia Peabody
Poblenca
Sophia
Nathaniel Rose
Hawthorne and Sophia Hawthorne Marriage Remembrance
The passage recalls Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Hawthorne living as a married couple for twenty two years despite later suffering. Upon Hawthorne’s death in 1864 Rev James Freeman Clarke conducted the service at Concord. A wreath of apple blossoms lay on his casket from the Old Manse alongside an unfinished manuscript.
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Hawthornes
Nathaniel
Sophia
James Freeman Clarke
Concord
It Wouldn’t Keep
A tourist in Scotland visits a Highland farm and jokes about whiskey preservation. The farmer, with practical logic, notes whiskey won’t keep, underscoring local practicality and humor of rural life.
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Scotland
Highland
Four members sworn in as new shipping board take seats
Four of the seven members of the new Shipping Board were sworn in today, including Chairman A. D. Lasker, and immediately assumed their duties.
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Washington
New Shipping Board
A. D. Lasker
Baseball Gossip Showcases Early Season Power and Standouts
Eppa Rixey makes a rare putout for the Reds while Irish Mengel leads his brothers in homers. Tim Hendryx posts a 1000 fielding mark as the Red Sox’s top defender. Cubs struggle with pitching as Brooklyn shines away from home. Nehl tops Giants with 7–2, and races for home run honors tighten between the Americans and Nationals. Bodie reappears hungry for hits, Cutshaw and Carey duel for steals as .300 club numbers rise. Suds Sutherland climbs from nine-year minors to the majors. A Nebraska town once offered Cicotte five thousand to pitch this season.
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Eppa Rixey
Cincinnati Reds
Mengel
Phillies
Bob
Tim Hendryx
Red Sox
Johnny Evers
Cubs
Brooklyn
Art Nehl
New York Americans
Philadelphia Nationals
Ping Bodie
Yanks
Cutshaw
Pittsburgh Pirates
Max Carey
Harvey
Suds) Sutherland
Detroit
Nebraska
Eddie Cicotte
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Senate
State Board of Health
Monroe City
J. W. Apperson
Mgr
AutoStrop
Faser’s Drug Store
Jense Brothers Sedan
Monroe Automobile and Supply Co
Monroe, la
Standard Oil Company of
Stanocola
Rora
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