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The Daily World is a Gannett-owned daily newspaper in Opelousas, Louisiana, United States. History. The Opelousas Daily World was founded by John R. Thistlethwaite and Ducote Andrepont. The newspaper was the first offset-printed daily newspaper in the world, and remained the sole offset-printed daily newspaper for nine years.
John R. Thistlethwaite Jr. (July 16, 1918 – April 6, 1996) was an American journalist who founded the Daily World of Opelousas, Louisiana on December 24, 1939, the first American small town daily newspaper to use offset and photo-offset printing.
Opelousas: The History of a French and Spanish Military Post in America, 1716-1803. Cottonport, Louisiana: Polyanthos. OCLC 724500. Fontenot, Ruth Robertson (1955). Some History of St. Landry Parish from the 1690s. Opelousas: (The Opelousas) Daily World. OCLC 5581766. Harper, John N. (2018).
Robert Clarence "Bobby" Dunbar was the first son born to Lessie and Percy Dunbar of Opelousas, Louisiana. He was born on May 23, 1908. In August 1912, the Dunbars took a fishing trip to nearby Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. On August 23, while on that trip, Bobby disappeared.: 3–6
Louisiana State Penitentiary, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. John Peter Malveaux (born 1964) is an American serial killer and rapist who committed between four and five murders around Opelousas, Louisiana from January to October 1997. Following his arrest and confession to the crimes, Malveaux pleaded guilty on all counts and was given four ...
The Opelousas massacre, which began on September 28, 1868, was one of the bloodiest massacres of the Reconstruction era in the United States. In the aftermath of the ratification of Louisiana's Constitution of 1868 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, tensions between white Democrats and Black Republicans in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana escalated throughout the ...
The Daily World is the name of various newspapers: The Daily World (Aberdeen), Washington. The Daily World (Helena), Arkansas. Atlanta Daily World. Greene County (Indiana) Daily World. Daily World (Opelousas), Louisiana. The Vancouver Daily World.
Began as Daily City Item in 1877: L'Abeille (The New Orleans Bee) New Orleans: 1827 1923 New-Orleans Commercial Bulletin: New Orleans: 1832 1871 New Orleans States-Item: New Orleans: 1958 1980 The New Orleans Tribune: New Orleans: 1864 1870: Opelousas Courier: Opelousas: 1852 1910 Opelousas Journal: Opelousas: 1868 1878 Opelousas Patriot ...