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Show RIVER IS STILLRISING Temporary ' Lerees Hold Back Flood of Waters at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, March - 23. With all the Louisiana levees on the main stream holding, the Mississippi continues contin-ues to rise .slowly. Today the gauge registered 20.1, a rise of a tenth in the past twenty-four hours. If the present rate of rise is continued, the weather bureau's prediction of 21 will be realized. real-ized. The temporary levees that have been built along the commercial front are now high enough to stand this maximum, maxi-mum, and considerably more. |