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| North America:The twenty second Democratic national convention meets in St. Louis to nominate Woodrow Wilson.
The sixteenth Republican national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Charles E. Hughes. |
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| Ruffin G. Pleasant becomes Governor of Louisiana. | Trumpeter Harry James comes to New Orleans to form a jazz band | Morehouse Parish Training School is built for Morehouse Parish blacks through the efforts of the parish school board and several Bastrop blacks. Subsequent buildings housed Morehouse High School until 1969 | State Federation of Labor organized. | Shriner÷s Jerusalem Temple at 1137 St. Charles Avenue built by Emile Weil and Sam Stone. | |||||||
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