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Title: Annual supplement to the Labor compendium. The Louisiana purchase centennial exposition
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., H. W. Steinbiss
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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as introduced at a regular meeting of theCentral Trades and T-abor Union of St. Louis and Vicinity, at Walhalla hall, 8 HISTORY OF THE LOUISLAJSTA PURCHASE) CEXTEXXIAL EXPOSITIOX. Tenth street and Franklin ayenue. by Mr. C. C. Behnke, representing Ameri-can Waiters Union TSo. 20. The resolution was unanimously adopted, andon the following- Wednesday evening, January 26, it was unanimously en-dorsed by the Building Trades Council of St. Louis and Vicinity, at a regularmeeting held at Druids Hall, Xinth and Market streets. The resolution read as follows: There are times when certain things are fitting of accomplishment. Ipropose to call your attention to the expediency of proceeding to accomplisha purpose most fitting at the present time—all things however great, mustfind at first their inception point, however small it may be. 1 propose topresent to this organization, facts and propositions which may, if it actwisely and energetically, make it the starting point of an enterprise, the
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William. H. THOMPSON, Treasurer, Chairman of the Grounds and Building Committee. WALTER B. STEVENS, Secretary,Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. like of which the world has seldom seen, and yet, of such vast importanceto us, to the nation and to mankind, and of so fitting a nature at this timeas to make it almost self-suggestive to all citizens of the vast empire ofcivilization, which is boun<led on the east b\ the Alleghany mountains, onthe west by the Rocky mountains, on the north by British America, andon the south by the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of ^Mexico—^in short, thatgreat portion of our country ^^■hich during the seventeenth century wasknown on the maps of the world as Louisiana. Louisiana was taken possession of by LaSalle in 1682 in the name ofLouis XIV. of France. In 3 699 the first colony was founded by France atBiloxi; in 1718 Xew Orleans was founded; in 1763 the government, bj secrettreaty, transferred the vast domain to Spain; the residents revolted anddrove t

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