Tag: Monroe History
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1904 Coca Cola ad
Shreveport Times, June 1, 1904, page 3. This is a bit confusing. Joseph Biedenharn didn’t get to Monroe until the early teens. Before then, he had been bottling Coke in…
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Legends of Bryant’s Addition Documentary
Please forgive the short post today. I’m still recovering from Saturday’s parades and my legs and hips are still in pain! OW! Riding a float hurts! A local filmmaker has…
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The History of The Bright-Lamkin-Easterling Home
The land that the above home would be built on, was once part of Henry Bry’s Mulberry Grove plantation. The Bry family sold the land to William A. Bright, a…
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Colorful Characters of Fort Miro Program
I just wanted to let everyone know that on this Thursday the 17th at 5:30 pm at the Main Branch of Ouachita Parish Public Library, I and three of my…
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“The Scroll and the Flame”
I have been playing around with AI and wanted to see what it could do. I gave it all the information I had on Monroe’s black sheep couple, Sidney and…
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The Circus Comes to Monroe
150 years ago tomorrow, the Great International Menagerie, Museum, Aquarium, Grecian Circus and Grand Roman Hippodrome (Whew!) came to town. This ad appeared in the paper New Years Day. What…
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1893 Worlds Fair Edition Transcript
Years ago, I transcribed the entire May 15, 1893 Monroe Evening News World’s Fair edition we have in our Special Collections department. I printed out a copy for the Genealogy…
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“FRIENDS”: A weekly News-Star Column
Back in October 1979, the News-Star decided to create a regular column where a local citizen would be profiled each day. It was called “Friends” and lasted till about 1987.…
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The Golden Eagle Military Band
While browsing on ebay a few weeks ago, I saw this photo pop up on my list: I immediately recognized the photo as a member of the Golden Eagle Military…
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Endom Bridge?
This is another postcard that claims to be the old traffic bridge (Now Endom) in Monroe. Some things seem “off” to me. For one, I really don’t see the railroad…
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