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Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas." How did you arrive at that "backwoods" business? Ever been down in this country? Does New Orleans and the Mardi Gras mean anything? How about Dallas and the Texas' Centennial? I'm not going to give you any statistics but you can read. The L. & A. Lines link these two principal cities and freight service via the "backwoods" railroad, New Orleans to Dallas, is second morning...
March, "The Creole Queen"Hall Overture, "New Orleans Mardi Gras" Wilson *"Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen," Negro Spiritual Arranged by Jachhia *Mississippi Suite Grofe *Carnival Overture Dvorak *"Fireworks" Stravinsky *Bolero Ravel *Selection, "Show Boat" Kern *"Estudiautina," Waltzes Waldteufel *"Strike Up The Band" Gershwin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store. Harvard Square
Edward McCune and Cecil Rich, undergraduates at College of Emporia (Kans.), had read so much about the fun to be had in New Orleans at Mardi Gras that they stole two cars and held up a filling station to get there in time for last week's frolic. For robbing a second filling station on the outskirts of New Orleans and kidnapping its attendant, Funsters McCune & Rich were clapped into jail. Even so they could congratulate themselves on having taken part in a two-day pre-Lenten spree which, for sheer hell-raising, was unsurpassed since the fabulous days...
Chosen from among New Orleans debutantes to be Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora...
James Edward Davidson is a name to command respect among Nebraskans. In 1923 Mr. Davidson was King of Ak Sar Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), Omaha's Mardi Gras. In 1929. by courtesy of the American Legion, he was First Citizen of Omaha. He is president of Nebraska Power Co., past president of the National Electric Light Association. Mr. Davidson was reported dissatisfied with ihe disrespectful treatment which Dr. Sealock's young instructors gave private ownership of public utilities...