What was going on 100 years ago this week? The following link is provided by the Library of Congress and its Chronicling America service. CLICK HERE for a link to the St. Tammany Farmer edition of February 17, 1917. Some of the headlines are Ordinances Pass For Certified Boarding Houses, Slidell Get-Together Meeting at Commercial Big Success, and First Step For Sanitation in Covington Is Taken.
Here is an advertisement from the above edition: