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1909

LOUISIANA LIQUOR LAW IS DRASTIC
Section Forbidding Foreigners to Hold Licenses is Declared Unconstitutional andWill Be Contested.
Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file) - Boston, Mass.
NEW ORLEANS--The Gay-Shattuck saloon regulation law, which went into effect on the first day of the year, will compel many changes, some of them drastic, in the method of conducting the liquor business in this state.
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Gray-Shattuck Law:
SALOON LAW OF LOUISIANA
Some of the Provisions of the Gray-Shattuck Law.

The Atlanta Constitution

Variously interpreted and threatened with a test of its constitutionality in some particulars, the Gay-Shattuck saloon regulation law, which went into effect in Louisiana at 12 o'clock last night, will

1909 
Emile Weil submitted plans for the Touro Synagogue at 4238 St. Charles Avenue on January 1, 1909.

1884
Oscar Papa Celestine is born
Oscar "Papa" Celestine
January 1, 1884-December 15, 1954

Oscar "Papa" Celestine was born in Napoleonville. While a young man he moved to Algiers and played cornet with the Algiers Brass Band and Henry "Red" Allen's Excelsior Brass Band. Later he formed his own band, The Original Tuxedo Orchestra in 1910 and the Tuxedo Brass Band in 1911. One of the cornet players in Papa Celestine's Brass Band was Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. Celestine's band was known for playing wherever jazz music was needed--funerals, picnics, or dances. In 1953, the band played for the President of the United States.

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