Word: shreveporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keystone Kops. In Shreveport, La., officers of the law finally got straightened out after a complicated chase. Two patrolmen in a private car chased a speeder; a State trooper in a private car chased the patrolmen; two more patrolmen chased the State trooper. The leader of the parade was fined...
Case Adjourned. In a Shreveport, La. courtroom a hearing was quickly postponed when a witness wearing a head bandage was asked what his trouble was. His trouble: mumps...
...unbent, drank nothing stronger than beer. He thought nothing of working 16 to 18 hours a day, kept himself in prime physical condition. His performance in the recent Louisiana maneuvers was outstanding. He often took chances he would permit none of his men to take. Piloting his plane from Shreveport to Lake Charles, he was advised that half-a-gale was blowing, that he couldn't possibly come...
...enclose a photograph of the central mural, one of five, which adorns the walls of Shreveport's newest skyscraper. This particular panel depicts Captain Henry Shreve, breaking up the great raft on Red River at a point where the city of Shreveport now stands. This, I believe, gives the lie to the caption "Shreveport forgot him," which appears below a likeness of Henry Shreve . . . in your Oct. 27 issue...
Vice President and Trust Officer Commercial National Bank in Shreveport Shreveport...