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January 1899
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February 1899
Record low temperatures in the Eastern United States effect the Carnival season in New Orleans. The coldest recorded temperature in the city’s history (6.8 °) occurred at 7 a.m. on Monday, February 13, the day before Mardi Gras. Frozen snow and ice covered all streets making parades difficult and dangerous, but newspapers stated that the king of Carnival had managed a complete triumph over the Ice King. The next week was much warmer, bit rare large chunks of ice were seen floating down river. |
March 1899
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June 1899
Sewerage and Water Board is formed. June 5 Kate and Jean Gordon, two members of the Sewerage and Drainage League help cast 300 proxie votes for women afraid to vote themselves. The 1898 constitution had granted women property owners the right to vote in tax elections and to vote by proxie. To most of the upper class women who owned property public voting on a drainage measure was deemed unseemly. The two New Orleans sisters were a big part of the effort toward reform for women and children. Kate Gordon assumes leadership of the suffrage movement in Louisiana and addresses the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900 and drew the meeting to New Orleans in 1903. She had little sentiment for black suffrage though and would work against a federal suffrage amendment. Jean Gordon will investigate and present a report to the legislature in 1906 to achieve a child labor law. |
July 1899
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December 1899
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| The New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad buys the Canal & Claiborne Railway. | The second St. Charles Theater (St. Charles near Poydras) is destroyed by fire. | Sacred Heart Academy, an exclusive girls school, is built at 4521 St. Charles Avenue on the site of an old orange grove. | The village of Fisher in Sabine Parish is named for Oliver Williams Fisher. The village was built in 1899-1901 by Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company. It remains a company-owned sawmill town until it was sold to Boise Cascade Corporation in 1966. |
James Madison Wells |
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