Louisiana Newspaper
United States Newspaper Program
The USNP has supported projects in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each project is conducted by a single organization within a state or territory, usually the state's largest newspaper repository. A project's staff inventories holdings in public libraries, county courthouses, newspaper offices, historical museums, college and university libraries, archives, and historical societies. Catalog records are entered into a national database maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and accessible through more than 43,500 dedicated computer terminals worldwide. Microfilm copies of newspapers are generally available to researchers anywhere in the country through inter-library loan. ... [Read More]
Louisiana Secretary of State Publications Division Index
Pursuant to R.S. 43:150 and R.S. 43:174, the Secretary of State's office maintains a list of the Official Parish Journals as appointed for one-year terms by the parish governing authorities. The list includes the name, address, and telephone number of the newspaper, and the expiration date of the appointment. For further information, please contact the Publications Division at (225) 922-0309 or send an E-mail to publications@sos.louisiana.gov . To view the list, follow this link . Proces Verbaux Program ... [Read More]
Abita Springs Pavilion
In 1888, the St. Tammany Farmer reported on the construction of the Abita Springs Pavilion, "Messrs. Poitivent and Favre have built a commodious pavilion over the springs, so constructed as to be beyond the reach of high water." An article entitled "Life at Abita Springs" from the same newspaper described the "pleasure seekers from among the wage-workers and counter hoppers of the great Southern Emporium…all who can move around light, out for a ramble to the springs and through the pinewoods…or can recline upon the seats of the ample pavilion. There are four well kept and commodious hotels in a few hundred yards of the main Artesian Saline Calebian Springs." In 1903 the town of Abita Springs was formally organized and later chartered in 1912. The State of Louisiana purchased the Pavilion in 1948 and added it to the state park system. In 1965, the St. Tammany Parish School Board purchased the property. It is now used for numerous community activities. ... [Read More]
Louisiana Secretary of State/Guestbook 2001
[Webmaster's Note: Thanks for the suggestions. Since there are usually several propositions to be voted upon throughout the state, we provide individual files for each proposition, by parish, so that voters can decide which to view and print, based upon their parish, rather than having to read through all of the propositions for the entire state. As for the summaries, we cannot change the "official ballot language" provided to us by the cities, towns, bonding authorities or attorneys who write the propositions. Most local newspapers have editorial coverage of amendments and propositions prior to elections, and go into detail to explain them in "layman's terms".] ... [Read More]
Heritage Education of Louisiana
Student Project: Students will visit Port Hudson, and will create three different presentations including a diary entry, newspaper, and a multimedia presentation. ... [Read More]
U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress
The researcher using this list is cautioned that not all newspapertitles held by the Library of Congress are indexed; however, earlyU.S. newspapers often covered areas much larger than just thetowns where they were published. The user is further cautioned that few indexes are complete, and many errors and omissions can beexpected. ... The format of the entry follows that of the Library's printed catalogcard including the classification number and an indication of the holdingsin the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. ... [Read More]
Louisiana Secretary of State/Louisiana Links Page
Livingston Parish Homepage includes lots of tourism information along with pages for many of the cities and towns in the parish. Newspapers, schools , churches and businesses are also included. ... Gambit Newspaper's Best of New Orleans Guide is established as an authoritative source for information on cuisine, tourist attractions, events and festivals, entertainment, jazz, plus a lot more. ... [Read More]
Louisiana Department of Revenue : All Documents
01-015 - Sales Taxability of Purchases by Advertisers and Commercial Publishers of Newspaper Inserts ... 02-014 - Concerning the Sales and Use Taxable Basis of Newspapers That Are Published and Distributed at No Cost to Readers ... [Read More]
Louisiana Secretary of State/Museums/Old State Capitol/This Month in History-OCTOBER
1864 - New Orleans Tribune , the first black daily newspaper, forms. ... 1861 - Dorothy Dix (newspaper columnist) is born in Montgomery County, Tennessee. ... [Read More]
Making a Worm Farm
Some folks sort the worms out of the castings and put the worms in fresh bedding. We have other things to do with our time and prefer a split harvest method. It helps if you have trained your worms ahead of time for this harvest method. To train your worms, you start feeding them at only one end of the bin. Do this for about a week. (Worms learn pretty fast.) Now take the bedding/castings out of the end of the farm where you were not feeding them and add it to your plants or garden. You will be removing about half to two thirds of the bedding/castings in this step. You will lose some worms, but those were the ones that were not very smart. Remember you trained the others. Place the remaining bedding/castings in a container while you scrub the bin and fix new bedding. Prepare this bedding the same way you did the first time, damp newspaper, crushed egg shells, and a handful of dirt. Now add the worms you trained, castings and all onto the fresh bedding. Feed and you are back in busines ... [Read More]
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