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Library of Congress1898

Image 4 of The Opelousas courier (Opelousas, La.), October 22, 1898

The Toledo Weekly Blade Every intelligent family needs in ad dition to their local paper a good na tional weekly The greatest and most widely known general family newspa per is the Toledo Weekly Blade For thirty years it has been a regular visit or in every part of the Union and is well known at almost every one of the 70000 postofiices in the country It is edited with reference to a national cir culation It is a Republican paper but men of all politics take it because of its honesty and fairness in the discus sion of all public questions It is the favorite family paper with something for every member of the household Serial stories poetry wit and humor the Household department best in the world Young Folks Sunday School Lessons Talmnages Sermons the Fat m stead the Question Bureau which an swers questions for subscribers the news of the week in complete form and other special features Specimen copies gladly sent on application and if you will send us a list of addresses we will mail a copy to each Only 1 a year If you wish to raise a club write for terms Address The

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Library of Congress1895

Image 2 of The Opelousas courier (Opelousas, La.), September 21, 1895

fhc Opelousas Courier PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY OPELOUSAS LOUISANA MONTYS SCOOP ONTG OMERYS acquaintance with the newspaper woman dated from a cold wet evening in that season of the year which without being either winter or spring possesses tlWe disagreeable features of both Miss Dodge came drearily down the capitol steps feeling her wet skirts flap disconsolately against her wetter boots at every step She was too dis couraged to care She was tired and cold and miserable as she could be She wanted to revel in it She felt old and shabby and a great wave of pity for herself washed a lump up into her throat Up and down the avenue umbrellas were bobbing like an endless funeral procession of mourning mushrcoms The ruby and emerald lights of passing cabs and herdicks threw splashes of color on the wet pavement and the street lamps were yellow blurs in the dusk It was her habit to stop for a moment on the terrace to look down along the grays and purples of the av enue but tonig she walked on stol idly Montgomery was sitting in the hall way of a deserted buildtLg a few block further down the avenue

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Library of Congress1916

Image 3 of St. Landry clarion (Opelousas, La.), February 5, 1916

NO MAN OR WOMAN Is truly independent who has not money in Bank Provide against Adversity BY OPEN ING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH UNION BANK TRUST CO Three per cent per annum in terest compounded semiannu ally PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS Interest paid from the 1st of the month on Deposits made before the 10th JOS P SAIZAN President J PERRODIN Casher fi 4IQLES LUIMIER BUOMPANY DEALERS IN SInds of 5BuUdig Matert i ber Shingls BrIck Urn and apr sar dse qe s an E 4s oproBCafoP Ws tlas vo YgrlAvg ReA286 YourselW Rigbt SThe IBig Season Ahe WERAL WELLS F r 13 t 1ou t excseiils saws oi Awl a n A Qv Pa Eg DALIAS T RECEIVED AWFuUl tock of Window Shadsi Cabinetan s Mantel our stock befor plactig your ors ý I Y M d0r Prices right and lry Lumber CeLL he Peopes State ank OF OPELOUSAS LA APITA STOCK 30 WE PAY 30 per annum interest on Sings A 3 0 counts and time certifeates of depesit9 S OFFICERS David Roos President Samuel Hiass Vice Presidenit Leon S Hass 2nd VicePresident t4wrence Lareade Cashier N M Childs Asst Cashier BoRO DrIRECTORSI David Roos Samuel Haas 3

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Library of Congress1882

Image 2 of The Opelousas courier (Opelousas, La.), January 28, 1882, (English)

Official Journal of Town of Opelousas IPUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY LEONCE L A SANDOZ O E IO ll S AS SATURDAY JAN 28 1882 52 TIMES l c o M E c 71 TIMES 4 T ME TImS I TIME Ir zo m 0 E d u lal2 Newspaper Laws and Rega1ui tious I Subscribers who do not give express no tice to the contrary are considered wishing to continue their subscriptions 2 If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals the publisher may conti nue to sendl them until all arrearages are paid 3 If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the office to which they are directed they are held responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them diseontiuued 4 If subscribers move to another place withqnt informing the publishers and the pa pers are sent to the former direction they are held responsible The courts have decided that refusing t stake the periodicals from the office or re moving and leaving them uncelled for is pri ma faiae evidence of intentional fraud B Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it whether he has ordered it or not is

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Library of Congress1888

Image 3 of The Opelousas courier (Opelousas, La.), May 19, 1888

Jewspapers and Editors Y e Coles Remarks at the Louili UIere Association Convention i O Picayune The following address made Mrs M R Fieldour Cath nie Coleat the recent Lou siau State Press Association 0nvention at Opelousas was 0rticularly well received and is bjre published by request of py members who heard it MrPresident Ladies and Gen tlemenA man who had been publishing a weekly f ewspaps in entuclky for some years said rag 0 editor works 365 days a year to t Sot fiftytwo issues of a paper atis labor once in a while some S pays him a years subscription thats capital and once in a while i se soouofa gun of a deadbeat takes the paper for a year or two and vanish withoat paying for it thats anar cy but later on justice will overtake i that last named creature for there is splace where lie wi get his deserts The Kentucky editor mention ed an impolite tough place where broken type is thrown and whih is in a way familiar to us all You who are printers as well s editors kfiow where the man goes who robs a poor editor The only trouble is

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Library of Congress1859

Map exhibiting the fixed location of the main trunk of the New-Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad of Louisiana, together with its proposed branches, connections and extensions in Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas; also its connecting steamship routes from Berwicks Bay to ports in the Gulf of Mexico, together with the advantages in point of directness & diminished distance to the Pacific Coast, New Orleans, La. January 24th, 1859

Outline map of the south-central states from Mississippi to the Rio Grande. Shows the "Wheat Region of Texas." Indicates completed, located and proposed lines. Table of distances in left side of map.

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