The Eighth of January used to be a big deal in Louisiana
Jim Bradshaw
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Jim Bradshaw
jimbradshaw4321@gmail.com
There were troubles in Europe and worries at home 100 years ago when the calendar turned to the new year of 1915, but George Bailey, editor of the Evangeline Banner in Ville Platte, thought it could still be a good year.
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Mais cher seniors, the Social Security letter you will receive this week to say the amount of money you will be receiving from them in 2015 is what you will need to renew with Food for Seniors when the time comes at Park Hardy in 2015, so keep it on hand. Joyeaux Noel.
Since I’m not sure if this column will be in the before- or after-Christmas paper, I’ll wish you all both. A Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays during and after.
The Abbeville Progress reported the sorry news a century ago, on Dec. 19, 1914. Authorities in the Vatican had made public an effort by Pope Benedict I to bring about a Christmas truce to at least interrupt the fighting during World War I.