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November 1906
Murphy James Foster is re-elected to the U. S. Senate |
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| By 1906 the city square bounded by Royal, St. Louis, Chartres and Conti Streets has been demolished to build a Court building. But between January 31 and June 1 of 1906 the city approves a temporary structure here for a Reunion of Confederate Veterans. | Bogalusa in Washington Parish was founded on Bogue Lusa Creek bank when tents were set for the first campsite of the Great Southern Lumber Co. A portable sawmill was erected to cut lumber to build the town and what became world s largest sawmill. | Jean Gordon will investigate and present a report to the legislature in 1906 to achieve a child labor law. | Although they had been published for several years a date first appeared this year on the Blue Book guides to Storyville. They are published by Billy Struve, a former police reporter for the New Orleans Daily Item who identified himself as Billy News in the opening pages of the little books. Tom Anderson is the unofficial Mayor of Storyville, proprietor of several cafes and a member of the state legislature. | The Schubert Theatre, 535 Baronne St. opens It will have several names during its existence: Lafayette (1922), Star (1940), Poché (1947) and Civic (after 1950) The Denechaud Hotel is built at 400 Baronne St. Today it is known as La Pavillon, but the nine story building which is faced with terra cotta on the bottom two floors spent many years as the DeSoto Hotel. |
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