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February 14, 1895-New Orleans records its heaviest snow fall ever with eight inches. |
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| In 1895 Picayune reporter William P. Billy Ball infiltrates a mob determined to lynch three blacks suspected of murder in Jefferson Parish. He is recognized, but one of the mob, who knew him as a boy convinces the others to let him go. He makes it back to the paper and writes the story, without names. | Clarinetist Jimmie Noone born. He will provide the link between New Orleans style clarinet and the cosmopolitan swing style of Benny Goodman, who claimed Noone as a major influence. Buddy Bolden is at the peak of his career and is quite renowned. |
The third St. Charles Hotel is completed by architect Thomas Sully. It will be demolished in 1974. | The Hennen Building finished in 1895 on the corner of Common and Carondelet is considered to be New Orleans first skyscraper and the first building to reach 10 stories. Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic Waltz is written by Louis Blake and published by the Sherrouse Medicine Company Ltd. in 1895. Dr. George Humphrey Tichenor a confederate veteran from Kentucky developed a formula while in private practice in Mississippi. He and Col. J. M. Sherrouse establish the medicine company in Baton Rouge in 1885 and moved their operations to New Orleans three years later where they also purchased a printing plant for the private use in advertising and for office use and laboratory work. Dr. Tichenor’s is still on the market today. | ||||||||
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