One had this modified noonday not only in Canal and some neighboring chief streets, but all along a stretch of five miles of river frontage.

There are good clubs in the city now--several of them but recently organized--and inviting modern-style pleasure resorts at West End and Spanish Fort.
The telephone is everywhere.

One of the most notable advances is in journalism.

The newspapers, as I remember them, were not a striking feature.

Now they are.