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me IHHIVULA'X C<lll niVCi ?c^.
During the nineties, the decade preceding and the one following, prior to the more successful advent nf the moving picture, every town of any size had its opera house, where road shows played from time to time. Bay St. Louis was the exception. but at the tum of the century, Mr. John Osoinach supplied the long-felt want and the deficiency was filled He built an opera house (illustrated else where in this edition) on the second floor of his mammoth / new store?on land fronting the pres-I ont Henry W. Oosoinach dwelling. It J was quite an acquisition to the town and many of the best theatrical pro-? ductions playing there. One morning, j November 7. 1907. fire supposed to 1 have originated in one of the front show windows from defective wiring, v I pave the city one of its biggest conflagrations. Mr. Osoinach had built well, the theater costing more than he had originally intended, and with the total loss of	his vast building and
heavy stock,	with only partial insur-
ance, he lost heavily, particularly since he had gone into debt to give Bay St. Louis a theater, i In a sense he was financially ruin-led. His creditors met and offered to accept fifty cents on the dollar in full i and final settlement. He refused I such consideration asking only for |	time when	he would after awhile,
I	he hoped, to	pay his creditors dollar
|	for dollar.
! And this he did. Honest John paid J every cent and finally, after a few
i tions in full and was again back in the commercial world with a high rating in Bradstreets and Duns. The theater is no more, the owner am builder is gone but the good name o John Osoinach lives on imperishably a heritage that will go down thru th<
years, he had discharged all obliga-
years.
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