New Orleans Canal Street Brilliant White Way Lights Turned On
New Orleans Canal Street enters final stage of a 3.5 million beautification with a 109-stand 1000 watt lighting system along 17 blocks. The project includes widened pink bordered sidewalks, rebuilt neutral ground tracks, and new tie-less tracks. Mardi Gras visitors witnessed the switch on as city prepares for events led by spring celebrations.
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New Orleans
Canal Street
Thomas A. Edison
Fort Myers
Piorida
West Street
Claiborne Avenue
Chicago
Detroit
State Street
France
Spain
Confederate States
United States
Louisiana
Rampart Street
Municipal Auditorium
Ass'n
New York
Gasoline Attack on Texan Face Sets Man on Fire
In Houston on March 1, WoL Kuykendall a Moody Seagraves gas company lineman, was attacked in a downtown garage when a stranger threw gasoline at him and ignited a flame close to his face. Kuykendall quenched the blaze himself, suffering burned face hat and eyebrows. Detectives have no motive, suspecting the victim was mistaken for police, and the burned man is not related to the police captain leading local liquor raid efforts.
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Houston
Texas
Wol Kuykendall
Moody Seagraves Gas Company
Kuykendall
4000 Cook County Employes Get Pay
In a marked contrast, about 4000 Cook County employees received back pay while others faced delays. Citizens relief leader Bias H. Strawn ordered $11,750,008 to ensure payday for all, with George F. Harding arranging the transfer of funds into the depository and issuing six weeks of back pay checks.
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Chicago
Tnta
Bite & Slding
George F. Harding
Bias H. Strawn
Citizens Relief Group
Tax warrants buy with rescue cash to meet payrolls
The arrangement uses rescue funds to purchase tax warrants intended to cover city, school board, and county payrolls to date and to infuse cash into some pension funds.
Naval aviation field project in New Orleans accelerated
New Orleans Algiers naval aviation field to be pushed faster starting spring. Preliminary work already under way with $10,000 from maintenance funds. The Navy expects to request about $200,000 for completion.
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New Orleans
Naval Aviation
Algiers
Aeronautics Bureau of the Navy Department
Navy
Navy Department
Towns Of Southwest Arkansas Receive Gas From Louisiana
Lake Cillare McGee Demott Eudora and Wilmott in southeast Arkansas now receive gas from North Louisiana fields. The Arkansas Power and Light company supplies gas via an 18 inch line built to St. Louis with a capacity of 75 million feet daily, and only a small portion is being used.
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Tunica
Miss
Lake Cillare
McGee, Demott
Eudora
Wilmott
Arkansas
Louisiana
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Louisiana Field
St. Louis
State Leads With Bull Associations In Dairy Plan
Baton Rouge reports Louisiana now tops the nation with 74 dairy cattle bull associations under the US Department of Agriculture. The state lists 1,545 cooperative members, 301 purebred bulls, and 1,178 cows, of which 1,603 are purebred, with Jerseys far outnumbering Guernseys and Holsteins. Pennsylvania drops to second with 71 associations after leading last year.
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Baton Rouge
Mar
Louisiana
United States
Bureau of Dairy Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Cooperative Bull Associations
Jersey
Pennsylvania
Sets Fire To Wife S Clothing And Runs
Camden South Carolina March 1 Sheriff officers search for W P Childers railway worker who struck a match to his wife's clothing and fled the scene. The wife, mother of eight, is not expected to recover as neighbors carried her to a hospital after she freed herself from the flames alleging a several days quarrel with her husband.
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Camden
Sheriiff
W. PB. Childers
Mars
Childers
Plant Exchange Day Opens City Beautification Effort
A Saturday Plant Exchange Day in Ruston kicked off efforts to beautify the city. The event, staged by the Civics Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and supervised by Mrs. B Rueble, saw residents swap surplus plants with neighbors. Volunteers Mrs Shadow and Mrs Feazel assisted, using space lent by City Bank Cash Store in the Mussonte building to host the exchanges.
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Ruston
Chamber of Commerce
B. Rueble
Clean Shadow
M. Feazel
Cithagun Cash Store
Marbury Raymond Excelling At Naval Academy Training
Reports from Ruston detail Marbury Raymond 17, a former Huston high student, thriving at the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis after entering last June. The piece notes his steady progress and contrasts with surrounding events, including a Boston man’s fatal shooting after a wedding reception.
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Ruston
Marbury Raymond
Ota
Huston
United Status Naval Academy
Annapolis Maryhind
Marbury
Huston High School
Naval Academy
Scouts Rally At Monroe On March 27 To 29
Monroe readies for a large boy scout rally and merit badge expo from March 27 to 29 1930 with 93 troops planning displays over 600 adults attended last year residents to host the scouts lodging registrations at The Va Hotel Alston Prophet leads committee Stanley A Harris National Headquarters will speak opening night Rotary Club hosts many demonstrations Friday showcases Monroe sights Saturday hosts the annual field meet all troops urged to attend and display optional for exhibitors
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Monroe
Alston
Rotary Club of
Stanley A. Harris
National Headquarters
Veterans urged to file war disability claims by April 6
World War veterans are urged to file compensation applications for service related disabilities. The bureau will only accept applications and physician affidavits until April 6 under current law. Veterans seeking wartime disability claims should obtain forms from the Veterans Bureau in New Orleans at Old Mint building 420 Esplanade Avenue.
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Congress
Bureau
Veterans’ Bureau
Old Mint
Esplanade Avenue
New Orleans
Sewerage and Water Investment to Reach 62000000
New Orleans will invest about 62 million dollars in sewerage water and central drainage by end of 1932 after using the 9 million bond issue and retiring nearly 2.5 million of old bonds. George Earl, superintendent of the Sewerage and Water Board, says facilities will compare with any city.
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New Orleans
George (. Earl
Sewerage and Water Board
Earl
Road Worker Arrested for Theft Charge
Eugene Teel aged 28 an employee of Nelson Brothers road contractors was jailed in Lincoln parish Sunday morning charged with stealing two razors from A L Chandler shop in Choudrant Saturday night. Sheriff Thigpen and deputy Frogler found the missing tools in Teel's room at Choudrant. Teel was arrested while at work Sunday morning.
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Eugene Teel
Nelson Brothers
Lincoln Parish
A. L. Chandler
Choudrant
Sherif Thigpen
Clyde Frogler
Teel
Two Suspicious Characters Are Arrested Sunday
Two suspicious men are arrested on Sunday in Arkansas. The report names G BP, McGoy, agent 24, and Luther Beard, 85, with Camden Ark cited as a home location, as part of the Lin segment.
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G BP
McGoy
Hutlig
Arkansas
Luther Beard
Camden
Arkitsig
McCoy Arrested in Wink Texas Jail Break Rumors
In Wink Texas McCoy was arrested Sunday afternoon by City Marshal W D Risinger while believed to have just broken jail. He was found armed with a cheap pistol while traveling on freight trains with a companion. Ahobo witness reported seeing him brandish the gun.
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Coln Parish
Wink
Texas
McCoy
W. D. Risinger
Beard
Marshal Risinger
Atlanta Graft May Trap City Officials in Indictments
Atlanta braces for possible wholesale graft indictments as a four month grand jury nears action. Solicitor General Boykin promises a public report by Saturday with up to two hundred named or implicated individuals. As the city moves into a new $1,000,000 city hall, long smoldering extortion charges threaten the municipal government after 16 weeks of scrutiny.
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Atlanta
John A. Boykin
Nate
Death Draws Nigh To Taft U S Sorrows
Washington February 27 Former Chief Justice Taft remained in critical condition as physicians visited at 10 45 pm noting no change in his state. Dr Hagner and Dr Claytor said they did not plan a return to his bedside until Friday morning and cautioned that death could come within hours despite earlier bulletins.
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Washington
Taft
Francis R. Hagner
Thomas A. Claytor
Hagner
House Group OKs 100 Million More For Vets
Washington February 27 the House Veterans committee approved amendments to the world war veterans act authorizing an additional 100 million dollars in annual government spending. The debate reflected ongoing scrutiny of benefits while lawmakers argued for fiscal responsibility.
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O. K
Washington
House Veterans’ Committee
Plans For 24 Story State Capitol Drawn
New Orleans architects Weiss, Dreyfous and Seifferth submitted plans to Governor Huey P. Long for a 24 story steel and limestone state capitol in Baton Rouge. The building would sit behind an ornamental plaza on the old LSU grounds with landscaped approaches and a main floor housing House and Senate chambers, spectator galleries, executive offices, the lieutenant governor and speaker’s offices, press rooms, locker rooms, and communications rooms.
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New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Weiss
House
Senate
Tower to House Louisiana State Government Offices
Plans describe a 168 floor tower with two mezzanine legislative committee floors on top of three thousand four hundred square foot offices per floor. It would house the Louisiana state supreme court and state departments if moved to Baton Rouge. Basements hold filing areas and post offices, with a grand arch entry into a memorial hall.
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Louisiana
State Supreme Court
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
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