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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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orth Ameri-can Continent, New Orleans occupies a com-manding strategic position; logically andeconomically she is the gateway, the marketof deposit and the point of contact betweenthe entire Mississippi Valley and Mexico,Cuba, Central and South America, the PacificCoast, Pan-America, and the Orient, via thePanama Canal. New Orleans is the great natural controlpoint of contact and the point of service be-tween North and South America. CDO NOT THESE THINGS SPELLOPPORTUNITY TO CAPITAL? C The war gave a phenomenal impetus tomanufacturing and merchandising in theSouth. C New Orleans has completed or has in courseof construction public improvements, utilitiesand facilities that offer unparalleled oppor-tunities for new industrial enterprises andfor the transaction of foreign and domesticbusiness. C New Orleans banks are ready and willing tolend every assistance compatible with goodbusiness to the builder, the manufacturer, themerchant and the trader. The Literary Digest for March 8, 1919 85
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C Under the Constitution of the State ofLouisiana, money on deposit in bank is de-clared exempt from all taxation. This appliesas well to money of non-residents on depositin Louisiana banks, 41. And now with the further developmentof immense natural resources, the avail-ability of raw materials, highly competi-tive transportation facilities by rail, bythe sea and by a network of inland water-ways; with her central location in rela-tion to commerce with the United Statesand foreign countries, with her freedomfrom industrial or port congestion—NewOrleans is, most emphatically, a city ofmany new opportunities. C Here in greater number than in any othersection of the United States are opportunitiesfor the man making a new start in life, theman with limited means. C Here are already many industries in fulloperation, with many others to come, offeringwell paid employment every working day inthe year, with living costs much less than inlocalities where long and bitter winters neces-sitate

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