Louisiana 1934 36 appropriations bill details allocations
The legislature outlines general fund appropriations for 1934 36 across departments and institutions. Key items include Charity Hospital New Orleans and Shreveport funding, state schools and colleges, health services, and public works. Several programs show year to year increases or decreases, with a large total for public schools and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Charity Hospital
Central Hospital For Insane
Pineville
State Service Commissioner
Judiciary Department
New York Banks
Louisiana Normal
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Negro Normal
State Colony and Training School
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Louisiana Board For the Blind
General Fund
Executive Department
Adjutant General
State Board of Agriculture and Immigration
Livestock Sanitary Board
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Commissioner of Statistics and Labor
Registrars of Voters
State Library
Louisiana State Museum
Memorial Hall
Eye
New Orleans
Soldiers Home
State Board of Health
Charity Hospital
Shreveport
East Louisiana Hospital
Jackson
Central Louisiana Hospital
Louisiana Training Institute
Monroe
State School For the Blind
State School For the Deaf
Louisiana State Normal
Natchitoches
Southeastern Louisiana College
Hammond
Southern University
Scotlandville
Louisiana Negro Normal
Grambling
State School For
State Industrial School For
Alexandria
Louisiana State Board of Parole
Board of Charities and Corrections
Board of Public Examiners
Louisiana Tuberculosis Commission
Louisiana Library Commission
Louisiana State Board For the Blind
State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
Milne Home
French Hospital
State Service
United Spanish
Veterans
Louisiana State Board of Health
Sullivan Trades School
Bogalusa
Parish Boards of Equalization
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Feen a mint chewing gum laxative advert
An advertisement promotes Feen a mint chewing gum laxative. It claims chewing distributes laxative through the intestines and mixes with saliva to soften waste, cleansing the bowel and banishing laxative dread. Prices listed are 15¢ and 25¢ at druggists nationwide.
Schwing Election Measure Killed in Louisiana Senate
In Baton Rouge on June 14 the Louisiana senate killed the Schwing bill requiring the governor to call a special election within 20 days after a vacancy. Senator Coleman Lindsey led the attack, and Senator Hugo Dore moved to table the measure, ending it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Senate
Coleman Lindsey
Calvin K. Schwing
Iberville
Sixth
Hugo Dore
Evangeline
Lindsey
Schwing
District turmoil shapes key Louisiana political shift
The article recounts the delay in filling a congressional vacancy after Bolivar Kemp's death, amid mass meetings and court battles. J. Y. Sanders Jr. won the seat after a long fight with the Long-Allen faction, while the Louisiana Senate blocked the Richardson bill to elect parish school superintendents, with Jules Fisher steering the postponement 23 to 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolivar Kemp
Long-Allen
J. Y. Sanders, Jr
Congress
Senate
Richardson
Jules Fisher
Jefferson
Man Hurt In Automobile Accident Is Recovering
Injured early Wednesday when the car he rode in left the road and ditched on the Rayville highway Blanchard Ford of Ruston was reported recovering at Monroe General hospital. Ford sustained head bruises while the driver who slept at the wheel left the scene. The report also notes curious cultural detail about Dutch Guiana women carrying items on their heads weighed with stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rayville
Blanchard Ford
Ruston
Monroe General Hospital
Ford
Dutch Guiana
May Cotton Use Drops From April and Last Year
May cotton use shows a drop from April and from May last year with May exports at 284 764 bales of lint and 9 365 bales of linters. Spindles active in May reach 25 891 366 while consumed in cotton growing states total 416 911 bales. Public storage and compresses hold 6 240 663 bales as of May 31.
Two Angola Prison Escape Sends Guards on Hunt
Two inmates from Angola state penal farm escaped yesterday afternoon as a trainload of state legislators visited the facility. Bloodhounds tracked them beyond the prison boundaries and guards conducted the manhunt across surrounding grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Angola
State Legisla
Carter's Little Liver Pills Promise Personal Charm Restoration
An old advertisement urges men to win women and women to win men by cleansing the bowels with Carter's Little Liver Pills. It claims bile flow reverses decay and skin issues, warning against harsh laxatives and touting the product’s mild vegetable extracts. Priced 26 cents at drug stores in 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euave
Carter
Arter
Prison Camp Breach Not Revealed During Legislative Visit
During an inspection trip within the prison grounds, escaped convicts were not named as the search continued. Legislators attended a barbecue and toured the camp, learning of the escape only after returning to the city.
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Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Malden, Mass
Alriw
Sherwin-Williams
Home Decorator
Betty Wood
THE
Sherwin Williams CO
Catelpa Street
Jean Harlow
Wallace Beery
Metro Picture
Capitol Theater
Marie Dressler
John Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Lee Tracy
Edmund Lowe
Billie Burke
Madge Evans
Jean Hersholt
Karen Morley
Phillips Holmes
Bernhardt Building
Bernhardt Bldg
Cinderella Shoe Co
Swagger
Solons
Penal Farm
Economy Furniture CO
DeSiard
Goodyear
Hall
Harrison
Tidwell
C.a
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