Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1911 — New Orleans Apt to Be City for Panama Exposition. [ARTICLE]

New Orleans Apt to Be City for Panama Exposition.

A preliminary victory was won by New Orleans over San Francisco in the fight for the Panama exposition Monday, when the house committee on industrial art and expositions decided to report favorably on the bill designating New Orleans as the exposition city and appropriating $1,000,000 for a government exposition.