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St. Landry Real Estate Journal had a short run | Parlons Opelousas While doing research for a book I am trying to complete, I ran across some new information regarding the newspaper history of Opelousas. As I’ve shared in a number of other Parlons articles, Opelousas is known as the Graveyard of Newspapers since so many papers opened and closed in our town over the decades. Well, last week I discovered another paper buried in that graveyard. Let’s talk about that. In April of 1881, when the Louisiana Press Association sent out an announcement with a list of all newspapers in Louisiana, three of those papers were located in Opelousas the Opelousas Courier started in 1852, the St. Landry Democrat started in 1878 and the St. Landry Real Estate Journal started in 1879. From this announcement, it seems Opelousas once had a newspaper called the St. Landry Real Estate Journal. According to information I recently discovered, that short-lived paper published from abou ....
Since I was a child I’ve been interested in the history of Opelousas. My curiosity about the stories I heard from my mom, my aunts and my grandmother led me to the St. Landry Parish courthouse when I got older, and eventually to other areas to do research on our town using anything available for more information. I especially like to learn how businesses got started, what were the first businesses in town and who were the first professionals. I even wrote a book called Opelousas Firsts. Since that time I’ve learned so much more about some of the first known businesses as well as those that followed. Today, I want to share what I learned about the early jewelers in Opelousas with a focus on Dietlein Jewelry Store that operated over a century ago. ....
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