Word: cabildo
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...Simon J. Shwartz. In 1926 he smilingly turned down an offer of $5,000. Hit by Depression, he later offered Queen Marie for $1,000, found no takers. Last week the Louisiana Historical Society bought the portrait for $126, to hang in the Society's collection in the Cabildo on Jackson Square. Through New Orleans, where "Marie Leveau charms" are still sold by obscure druggists and necromancers, rose last week a babble of amazing tales about Marie Leveau's strange power over 19th Century New Orleans...
...week to the Library of Congress a large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...
...Hotel Roosevelt, New Orleans, formerly the Grunewald, testifies testifies confidence in the distinctive charm of the old Creole city by hanging signed artists' proofs in the guest rooms, of ten etchings by Ronald Hargrave, of the Cabildo, the Cathedral, the old Absinthe House and other picturesque corners...