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1909 Amid Smiles and
Sighs, a Leaner Fat Tuesday New York Times Mar 1, 2006 NEW ORLEANS, Feb.
28 — People living here never think about needing a calendar to plan their Mardi Gras, which would be like planning
to attend February ... drawing a huge crowd by this year's ... "On the day before Mardi Gras Day, Monday,
comes Rex, King of Carnival, accompanied by his nobles and attendants in waiting, to his much-beloved Capital.'... Rex
usually, although not necessarily, makes his journey to the city by way of the river on his Royal Yacht,' escorted by
the Royal Flotilla'--which royal yacht and royal flotilla vary, according to his whims, from private yachts to visiting
war vessels of the United States and foreign nations, with accompanying tugs and merchant steamers." [New
Orleans Progressive Union. New Orleans: What to See and How to See It (1909), pp. 27-28.] http://nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/river/rex.htm ---  | | Louisiana Turns From Cotton to Cane. | | The Washington
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"In some parts of my State," remarked Col. J.S. Aubrey, a wealthy cotton
grower of Avoyelles parish, La., "there is a strong movement among the planters to make a change of crops. Heretofore
in my locality the principal product has been cotton, but henceforth it will be sugar cane
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