Tax Bill Aims at Louisiana Newspapers
A state bill by Rep Leuissier targets major daily papers in New Orleans Shreveport and Monroe with a proposed fifteen percent tax on all newspaper advertisements. If extended to weeklies, it could kill about half of the state's papers, injuring small dailies and forcing suspensions like the Daily Leader. The measure is criticized as a spiteful move to punish opposition to the current administration.
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Catahoula Parish
New Orleans
Shreveport
Monroe
Daily Leader
Tts
Dairywing Augmenting Farm Incomes Across the South
The dairy industry has boosted southern farm incomes over the past 15 years. By 1948 the South hosted 63 cheese factories producing over 6 million pounds, with Mississippi contributing over 2.5 million. Milk condensing plants and creameries expanded, butter output rose, but tick-borne cattle disease limits dairy growth in Louisiana, affecting cheese and milk plant numbers. Dairy gains did not reduce cotton or other cash crops.
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South
Mississippi
Louisiana
Paying for Carelessness and Fire Safety Costs
An analysis outlines the broad economic impact of fires, estimating direct losses around 900000 yearly and noting higher insurance rates. It argues that destroyed property shifts tax burdens, reduces purchasing, causes layoffs, and depresses communities, urging proactive individual and business safety efforts to curb these costs.
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San Jancisco
Huey Vespotsille
Entrance Excerpt Trol Title Writing at Logoth College
Fragmented OCR shows a student guidance crammed with questions about honesty and discipline at Logoth College. It passages call for self control, daily routines, and avoiding unlawful aid while preparing for entrance exams. The text critiques lax behavior and urges steadfast study.
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Jf Hadstead
Long era's highway scandal faces new Senate bill
Senator Boone of Claiborne pushes final passage of a bill to curb highway waste and political influence. The measure, praised by Senator Hughes, would punish violations with fines or imprisonment, aiming to depoliticize the highway commission after court rulings upheld the Constitutional league's protest of Long era practices.
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Mace
Walt
Long
Constitutional League
Mr. Long
Supreme Court
Highway Commission
Boone
Claiborne
House
Senate
Louisiana Farmers Face Highway Tax Relief Defeat
Louisiana farmers sought relief from highway fuel taxes on gasoline for tractors and motorboats but Governor Long and his allies in the House defeated the measure. The attack framed the bill as a revenue loss for the highway department while citing 30 states exempting farm gasoline. Critics accused Long of professed farmer concern while opposing relief, with frequent remarks about veracity and fuel bootlegging.
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Governor Long
House of Representatives
Long
Mr. Long
Gueymard
States
Union
Highway Commission
Mr.Long
Highway Department
Ma. Long
Huar Deaders
Ma. McClanahan
Whitts
Farmers and Tax Foe Audiences in Impeachment Rants
In blunt passages the speaker denounces Mr Long as hypocritical, favoring farmers only when they can benefit him, while blasting costly excesses and highway payrolls. He argues efficient, nonpolitical management could fund roads and ease the fuel tax burden on the poor, urging farmers and fishermen to reflect. N. O. Item reports the remarks.
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Long
Highway Commission
N. O
Governor chastised by Louisiana senate panel endure intrusion
The Louisiana senate committee investigating penitentiary affairs rebuked Governor Long for intruding on a session as Holcombe Schwing and Caffery led the protest. The trio demanded the governor leave, decrying his unwarranted interference. He apologized and withdrew, with the Journal urging lawmakers to resist executive meddling to keep committee findings credible.
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Louisiana
Senate Committee
Holcombe
Schwing
Caffery
Long
Shreveport Journal
Slow steady saving builds great fortunes
IBY 8S. W. STRAUS notes many successful businessmen started with small savings and discipline. He argues patience and thrift, not sudden windfalls, drive wealth growth, citing that most large fortunes arose from initial modest sums grown through sound business and investment.
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W. Straus
American Society For Thrift
America
Science Echoes And Whimsical Inventions Seep From Campus
A student claims germ isolation for common colds with a three year inoculation serum and cure. another reports a radio fever tube to heat homes by broadcast and reverse use for cooling. Dr Einstein theorizes space eats matter, sparking wild reflections on future days as trivial worries of fuel bills and sneezes persist.
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Dr. Einstein
N. O
Harper Sermon Urges Service Over Self at Tulane Graduation
Rev R H Harper addresses Tulane and Newcomb graduates urging them to abandon the top above all slogan and pursue work serving humanity. He argues the old self centered creed limits happiness to a few and that life is worth living for the 99.9 percent whose names rarely appear in history or scandal.
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R. H. Harper
Tulane
Newcomb
Edisons
Rockefellers
United States
N. QO
Professors Prefer Repeal in Princeton Poll
The Princeton Alumni Weekly reports a faculty poll showing 50.73 percent favor repeal of prohibition, a majority over undergraduates who favored modification. The editorial jeers at students for conservatism and hints at social drinking schemes to curry favor with the press.
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Princeton
Prince
Road Signs for Jersey History Risk and Warnings
The New Jersey Highway Commission plans to erect a thousand markers identifying rivers and streams to educate drivers. Critics warn lengthy signs slow reading and distract drivers, suggesting caution and simple, concise wording to avoid unsafe observations on the road.
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New Jersey Highway Commission
Iteim
No Museum For Stars And Bars
Confederate veterans in a Biloxi Mississippi session unanimously adopt a resolution refusing the invitation to join a reunion with the Grand Army.
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The
Confederate Veterans
Biloxi
Miss
Grand Army
Confederate Flag Reunion Debate Stirs Old Fractures
The Shreveport Journal comments on delaying formal reunion between former Confederate groups. It urges leaving flags in museums and notes lingering mistrust among older members while suggesting future fraternal harmony may grow with time.
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AlarNonNe
Shreveport Journal
World's Greatest Paymaster Dies in Washington
Gen H M Lord, who led wartime finance for the War Department and later directed the budget, died in Washington. He oversaw the disbanding of about twenty four billion dollars and set a high standard of fiscal leadership. Elsewhere in the world, reports note a violent hailstorm in Greek Macedonia killing 22 and fracturing skulls, with references to ancient beliefs and modern misfortune.
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H. M. Lord
Washington
Lord
War Department
America
General Dawes
Remarriage Of Wife Swappers Cleared By North Dakota Judge
Minot North Dakota June 9 District Judge iG W Butta of Devil's Lake freed two couples from criminal charges over a double remarriage after divorces in 1929. Lawrence Kikansrud and Willis Knight with their former wives had exchanged mates in Manitoba Canada after 90 day remarriage pauses, but the judge ruled no North Dakota laws were violated.
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Minot
N. D
North Dakota
Ig. W. Butta
Devil’s Lake
Lawrence Kikansrud
Willis Knight
Renville County
Buttz
Metita Manitoba
Canada
Philadelphia Census Narrows Population to Under Two Million
Unofficial estimates for Philadelphia suggest the city’s population may not reach 2,000,000. Current figures show about 1,048,779 with a citywide recheck underway, though 1920 census data listed 1,833,710.
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Philadelphia
I C C Winson Gravel Rates Blocked by Court
New Orleans June 12 The Louisiana Public Service Commission failed to obtain an injunction to stop the Interstate Commerce Commission from enforcing its higher rates on sand gravel and similar commodities. A three judge federal court ruled the I C C acted within its authority and that the court lacked jurisdiction to grant the requested relief. Judge Foster wrote the memorandum opinion.
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New Orleans
Louisising Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Public Service Commission
Foster
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