In the April 10, 1915, issue of the St. Tammany Farmer, Dr. W. L. Stevenson gave a personal review of the potential of St. Tammany Parish, particularly in the Covington and Claiborne Hill areas.
He urged continued community improvement, more attention to and advertising of the new food canning facility, and, most of all, a freshening up of the several sanitoriums that treated the sick and diseased who came to St. Tammany, but at the time kept them separated from the healthy population.
He was one of the many outspoken area residents who thought that advertising and promoting the quality of life in St. Tammany would help it progress and prosper.
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