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John Philip Sousa gives two concerts at the Jerusalem Temple in New Orleans during the 1925 Christmas season. |
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While writing for the Times-Picayune, William Faulkner pens Soldier’s Pay his first novel. George Washington Cable dies on as visit to St. Petersburg Florida. He has revisited New Orleans and was met with a warm reception, a vindication of his departure years earlier. |
Louis Armstrong, as a band leader of his Hot Fives and later Hot Fives and Sevens, records sides under his own name in Chicago (1925-1928) that make his worldwide reputation. He helps shift the focus of jazz from ensembles to solo stars. | 
The Vieux Carré Association, the precursor of the Vieux Carré Commission is established with the help of Elizabeth Werlein, a leading force in preservation. |
Olinkraft is the first hundred percent sulfate board on the market. The first pulp paper mill in the United States to produce fourdrinier Kraft linerboard is in West Monroe, Ouchita Parish. | During 1925 a more direct highway route between Natchitoches and Shreveport, traveling along the west side of the Red River, will knock another 20 miles off of the distance from the southern part of the state. Shreveport’s Strand Theatre is built by the Saenger brothers and Ehrlich brothers, Shreveport citizens and theater industry magnates. Designed by Emile Weil it is one of the few remaining grandiose movie-vaudeville theaters built in America in the 1920s. In the mid-1920s , with the automobile industry going into high gear a need was seen to connect New Orleans to the east with an automobile bridge. Governor Fuqua felt the estimated $5.5 million needed to build a five mile span was too much for public coffers, so he began negotiating with business men to build a privately funded toll bridge. The resulting Watson-Williams toll bridge was opposed by the young chairman of the Public Service Commission, Huey P. Long who wanted a toll-free public bridge. The controversy helped propel him into the governor's mansion and he built his public bridge six miles away in 1930. The toll bridge later was taken over by the state and was designated the U.S. 11 Bridge. |
The Arsenal, the oldest building on the LSU campus and used as an agronomy building is the site of a grisly unsolved murder. Oscar B. Turner, 56, professor of agronomy is mysteriously beaten with a rusty hand-ax on Sunday morning, June 7, 1925. | ||||||
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