Dixie Overland Highway Bid Call For Orleans Parish Area
Louisiana bids invited for the Dixie Overland Highway segment through Richland Ouachita parishes linking Chicago to Brownsville Texas. The project includes 6 miles of road with drainage culverts and bridges, funded by state federal sources, with awards planned July 11 in Baton Rouge.
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Iland Parish
Ward 3
LaPourche
Louisiana
Chicago
Brownsville
Tex
State Highway Commission
Richland
Ouachita
Stonroe-Rayville
LaFourche Swamp
Ouachita Parish
State
Federsl
Richland Ported
Baton Rouge
Monroe White Way Installed on Grand Street Opening Soon
The White Way on South Grand Street, funded by Levis Casper and city resources, is completed at about $5,000. It runs along both sides from Wood to Bry streets and loops around Parish High, with electronic lighting supplied by the city. A formal opening program by Community Service and city authorities is planned for Friday near LeGrand Hotel, with details to be announced Thursday.
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White Way
South Grand Street
LeGrand
Levis Casper
Page Eee
Posta
Grand Street
Wood Street
Bry Street
Ede Pa
St. Dehn Street
St. John
Talamaque Street
Beath Grand Street
Zionist Association elects delegates to world congress in Carlsbad
The twenty sixth annual convention of the American Zionist Association began closing sessions with elections for American delegates to the World Zionist Congress to be held next August in Carlsbad Czecho-Slovakia. An executive council was created then reversed. officers to be named by ballot later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Baltimore
American Zionist Association
World Zionist Congress
Carlsbad
Czecho-Slovakia
Palestine
Drago and King Plan Ruston State Bank Building
Architects Drago and King of Monroe draw plans for a Ruston State Bank with a stone front, marble interiors, and the largest vault for its size, plus plans for a Colonial home in Greenwood Mississippi and other major Mississippi projects noted by the firm.
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Ruston State Bank
Drago & King
Monroe
J. C. Steele
Greenwood
Miss
Servyanta
Consolidated School At
Money, Miss
Mississippi
J. P. Soper
Greenville
Muns
M. H. Marx
North Third Street
Glenmore Avenue
L. Milton King
Drago
New Orleans
Spain
German protest cites French terrorism in Ruhr occupation
Washington reports Germany’s communication to the state department claims French policy in the Ruhr relies on terrorism and shifts responsibility to Paris for consequences. It accuses France of failing to respond to German proposals for international investigation into incidents and cites specific alleged abuses against German residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ruhr
State Department
Hughes
Otto Wieldfeldt
Poisoning at Dixie Louisiana service alarms residents
Between forty and fifty Black attendees at an all day Dixie Louisiana service were stricken with ptomaine poisoning after a ground dinner. Medical aid saved many from further danger, and officials expect full recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Prem Shreveport
Dixie
Insurance Agents Meet in Jackson Mississippi
Associated Press reports the Mississippi Association of Insurance Agents led by president John Sharp Williams III will hold its annual meeting in Jackson at the Country Club on Wednesday June 20. Morning sessions will cover the president and secretary treasurer reports, with officer elections and luncheon hosted by two insurance firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Lake Charles
J. Howard Trotter
American Rice Growers’ Association
Jennings
Crowley
Lake Charles Rice Milling Company
Phillis Miller
Interstate Rice Willing
Associated P'ress Jackson
Miss
Mississippi Association of Insurance Agents
John Sharp Williams
Jackson
Country Club
Mississippi Fire Insurance Company
Bankers and Merchants Fire Insurance Company
Reverend Tripp Leaves for European Tour
A large Monroe congregation bid Pastor Frank Tripp God speed as he left for Europe. Clergy from Monroe and West Monroe attended, with prayers and blessings offered. Tripp noted his two and a half years as pastor and the church’s generosity. he sailed from New York soon after and will proceed to Paris.
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Friends
Frank Tripp
Europe
Monroe
West Monroe
P. M. Freeman
Wallace Clift
L. R. Morgan
P. T. Treadwell
Clarks
Adams
First Christian Church
Evans
Freeman
Tripp
Morgan
Treadwell
Rev
New York
Montreal
U. S
Montelare
Wicker Tours
Hotel Lutetia
Boulevard
Raspail
Paris
France
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Shaner
Mickey
Grimes’ Creek
H. F. O’neill
Willie
Lanational Syndicate
Dixie Overland
Quachita and
Monroe White Way
Grand
Nashville
Tenn
Nashville Machine and Supply Company
Drago and
King
Quachita
MR. McGee
State News
Roig
Shreveport
Alfred Reig
American Railway Express Company
T. F. Bell
Tessie C. Blake
Milliken
East Carrol Parish
Liberty
Blake
Panama
Newark
N. J
Mary Creighton
John
Chas. Raymond Avery
Creighton
Rev. Tripp
London
Just
DAVIS
F.C. McClanahan Co., Inc
N. Grand St
Bruck, Weiss, Hyland, Fisk
Asher
Johnnie Smith
E_lIbert
Dixie Bedding CO
Pound
Collens
Desiard ST
Emerson
the Legionnaire Store
The
Sterling Fire Insurance Co
Gregg & McKenzie
Ouachita National Bank
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