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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 ....
I’m in the process of completing another book for the Opelousas Tales Series that will focus on the newspaper history in Opelousas. Our town has seen the creation of more newspapers than most other small towns across America. So many that Opelousas is known as the Graveyard of Newspapers. While reviewing the materials I’ve collected over the last 40-plus years of researching this subject, I feel an important paper to the history of our town is one that was almost forgotten. Let’s talk about the St. Landry Progress. Studying the history of newspapers in Opelousas you’ll come across two named the St. Landry Progress one created in the 1800s and one created in the 1900s. Both were short-lived for different reasons. The St. Landry Progress of 1916, owned by Richard Price and Lawrence A. Andrepont, published by Louis Hebert, was first issued in December 1916. The last edition was in February 1917. ....