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| North America:The sixteenth Democratic national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Grover Cleveland.
The tenth Republican national convention meets in Minneapolis to nominate Benjamin Harrison. |
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January 1892
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February 1892
Federal government forces the Lottery to discontinue using U. S. mails |
March 1892
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September 1892
A three day September"Carnival of Champions" prize-fighting program at the old Olympic Club includes lightweight champ Jack McAuliffe (who knocks out Billy Myer), featherweight champ George Dixon (vs. Jack Skelly) and the fight of the century between Gentleman Jim Corbett and invincible bare knuckle brawler John. L. Sullivan. It is the first fight with gloves and using the Marquis of Queensbury rules. The famed lawman Bat Masterson is timekeeper. Corbett, who trained at the Southern Athletic Club , 1500 Washington Ave., won with a left to the jaw in 21 rounds. |
October 1892
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November 1892
Nominated for governor on the Anti-Lottery Democratic ticket Murphy James Foster runs against Samuel McEnery. Foster wins the election by a margin of 79,270 votes to 47,046. Other candidates in the race are Republicans A. H. Leonard John E. Breaux and Populist Robert L. Tannehall. Foster sends State Militia into New Orleans during a general strike of 42 unions which threatens the city’s economy. |
December 1892
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| Francis T. Nicholls is appointed Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, serving until 1911. Clarinetist Johnny Dodds born. | Holy Name of Jesus Church opens on Prytania Avenue. In July of 1910 the church is moved intact to the present site of Loyola University. In 1922 it is dismantled and moved across the river to Westwego and becomes the church of Our Lady of Prompt Succor. Mother Cabrini founds Italian orphanage. | Kinder, Louisiana named for James A. Kinder, who received a homestead certificate for land in 1892. Kansas City, Watkins, and Gulf Railway arrived in 1890. Kinder was incorporated as a village in 1903. Patrick E. Moore served as first Mayor. | Dr. Theodore Kenneth Lawless (1892-1971)was a tireless doer of good deeds and he did it against the odds. He was born on December 6, 1892, the son of the Reverend Alfred Lawless (after whom the Alfred Lawless High School on Law street is named). He went to school at Straight College in New Orleans, the only high school for blacks in the area at that time. He went on to graduate from Talladega College, Ala., and then to study medicine at the University of Kansas. He received his M.D. at Northwestern University in 1919. He taught dermatology, his chosen specialty and taught at Northwestern from 1924-1941. The medical staff at Northwestern was forced to recognize his brilliance, but it was not always appreciated and as an instructor in dermatology he was assigned no students. With the help of 11 Jewish doctors who provided him with reference letters he studied in Vienna and Paris, came back to Chicago and opened a very successful private practice. It is said to be six times larger than all the other Chicago dermatologists combined and a large percentage of his patients are white. Within 20 years Lawless publishes 10 medical papers covering an awesome field of research from Hansen’s Disease to syphilis. His is said to have donated $700,000 for an 80 unit apartment and more for the Lawless Memorial Chapel at Dillard University. He founded a dermatology clinic in Israel to honor his Jewish benefactors. On his 78th birthday in 1970 he shared his guidelines: I sought my soul but my soul I could not see, I sought my God but God eluded me, I sought my neighbor and I found all three. He died in Chicago in 1971. Edouard Bermudez Robert Charles Wickliffe |
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