Open wells and Sunday laws spark local rumor
A fragmentary town message alleges an open well at the McAnery place corner Fairfield and Olive street risks life, a rear Olive Street well may destroy property, calls for filling. Rumors urge closing a beer garden, limiting a district attorney case, and seeking salary increases for health officers amid hard times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAnery Place
Fairfield Ae
Olive Street
K.ratzman
Sanday Beer Garden
Bed Jway Company
Meera, Hounda
Pattman
Dillender& Haag
Community Benefit Event At House Aims Support
Friends of Mus Mande are arranging a benefit at the house to support the Board of Health. Details are unclear in the fragment but indicate a local community effort likely tied to public health or welfare.
Tenement Building Boom in Allendale Area
The suburb of Allendale sees multiple tenements and neat cottages under construction by Tustan Poindexter Fory and others. New residences planned near Crockett and Marshall streets rise toward a modern adornment of the neighborhood as carpenters and hammer work intensify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Tustan
Cotton Street
McNeil
Coke
Allendale
W. H. Fory
George Paemaien
B. Poindexter
Jennie B. Nolan
Marshall Steoop
Crockett
Mra. H
Lassie
State Board of Education Urges Tax Support for Public Schools
The State board of education adopts a resolution urging parish police juries to allocate as much of the ordinary parish tax as possible to fund public schools and to enforce full poll tax collection. It calls parish boards to restore high schools where justified and to hire competent teachers to improve state education and intellectual growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Education
State Board
Edection
Tod Colleges
Wuivernation
Ae Aldren
Louisiana
A Bug in the Ear and Court Crank Tales
A fragmentary dramatic piece evokes a chaotic scene of invention and distraction. It depicts a worker faced with machinery in operation and the surrounding noise as a warning to remain wary. The text references a print about Allinnes and People's paper and dates around 1602 and beyond.
Press Echoes and Local Notes From Louisiana Papers
A collage of brief items from Louisiana newspapers covers water mills in Scituate and Abbeville’s delays, farm and labor musings, new electricity uses in St Etienne gun works, crop outlooks in Donaldsonville, Lake Charles, and Alexandria boom chatter. Church poison scare at Amenia, turnip patch advice, and Shreveport affairs with dram shop ties conclude the miscellany.
Baton Rouge Gazette to Debut by Charlie Buckette
American Charlie I. Buckette former Baton Rouge Advocate editor will launch the Baton Rouge Gazette. A seasoned journalist with years in the field, he is praised as an all around newspaper man and connected to the local press scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcasion
Charlie I. Uuckette
Baton Rouge Advocate
Baton Rouge Gazette
Pisa
Lin
Ant
Interprine
Pekette
Chua
Vackette
Well Lawn
Methodiet Church Schedule and Prayer Meetings
A fragment lists church activities at Methodiet churches including Bet Baptist and others. It notes Sabbath services, Sunday school, prayer meetings, and midweek gatherings with names like J L Perce and W Penick and references to locations and times. The readability is limited by OCR errors but conveys regular weekly rites and congregational events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thie
Pastore
Fit Methaditet Kptecanal Church
Saouth
Hey
J. L. Perce
Tipo
Sen
Ban
Fin feather and fur tale of birds and beasts
A garbled historical snippet discusses animal care and breeding, noting a German boarding establishment for birds and a claim that Great Britain favors breeding places. It mentions Portland Indiana politics, curious woods of northern Americas, and a reported white albino creature captured from New Brunswick waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Animal Kingdom
Germany
Ciritain
Eniive
Neil
Jy Mutare
Ternie
Portland
Ind
Jiribels
America
Ison
Doomsday warning from German scientists cited in drifted text
A garbled 20 year doom forecast mentions German scientists preparing nitronite and a volatile explosive. The piece references nitrogen as a dangerous compound and a doomsday scenario with clocklike timing and collapsing weather patterns. It ends by advertising a steakhouse at No. 1153 Texas Avenue.
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Mesera
Dreyfuns
Bacon
Weitel
Lennen
Bergms
Board of Health
Wu St
Board of Tee
Bioukr
Vane
NTARY
di Ths
Tia Paoewer
Fries
Etterwe
Bittizus
Olga
Peer Euler
Audi
Rory
Rmading
Allinnes
Abelise
Teta
Samuel Woodworth
Scituate
Maat
Abbeville
Seton
St. Etienne
Donaldsonville
Rica
Lake Charles
Alexande
Apparent Ora
Charles
Alexander
Alesandria Boom
Presbyterian Church
Amenia
Dutcheas County
Bell
Robeline
Wallace
Te Obs
Iberville South
Shreveport
Ee Cherie
Armarican
North Louisiana
Scientific
Altragrn
Texas Avenue
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