Some of the members of the Globe-Democrat 1935 Boys' Outing Club, who took time inspect the engine as their special train stopped in Jefferson City yesterday en route to Bagnell Dam on a two-day outing.
Faternal building at northwest corner of Eleventh street and Franklin avenue, which has been purchased by Jacob E. Lasky, president of the Franklin Furniture Company,. Lasky plans to make extensive improvements on teh structure and convert it into a modern store and loft building. Arthur S. Martin & Son, who made the sale for the John A. Scudder estate, will have charge of the management.
The following store signs are; Century Plumbing Supply Co., 500 Slightly used Suits, some as good as new $5 and up. Vehicles seen are a car and truck.
$84,000 Negro community Center- This is the way the new $84,000 Gamble Community Center Building for Negros will look when completed about eight months from now. Work on the new structure, which will be at Gamble street and Glasgow avenue, will start in about two weeks. It will contain a gymnasium meeting rooms, recreation quarters and shower and locker rooms. About 30 per cent of the cost will come from P.W.A. funds and the rest from city bond issue money.
The Old Gay Building at Third and Pine streets considered by St. Louisans of the 1870s as being second to none in the line of modern office buildings and the scene of many dramatic episodes enacted in fields of politics, grain speculations and mining stock promotions, is one of the old structures here to be razed when the government starts clearing the waterfront to make way for the Jefferson Memorial.
St. Louis homemakers interested in better nutrition for national defense yesterday crowded the second session of Miss. Jessie Marie DeBoth's cooking school under the ausprices of the Globe-Democrat in the Field House of Washington University.
Part of the 4,000 women who attended the opening of the Globe-Democrat's Annual Cooking and Homemaking School at Washington University Field House yesterday afternoon. The school is under the direction of Miss Jessie Marie DeBoth, well-known authority on cooking and household arts.
A view of the capacity crowd which attended the opening program of the Globe-Democrat's Cooking School at which Jessie Marie Deboth demonstrated the latest in the recipe world.
New building for the Arthur J. Donnelly Undertaking Company, nearing completion at 3840 Lindell boulevard, east of the undertaking firm's present establishment.
Contracts have been let for the remodeling of the present building of the Eden Publishing Company and the erection of the new building on the southwest corner of Chouteau avenue and Dolman street, at a cost of about $200,000.
Sternwheeler Idlewild. Note on back of photo reads: "Idlewild, 1934, photographed at Walker's bar 20 mi above Cave In Rock on Mississippi from orig. negative. Edison H. Thomas took the photo from the dredge Grafton."
Tower Rock, Grand Tower, Ill. Near Missouri Shore, opposite Grand Tower, Ill. Grand Tower Pile Dike and Revetment Contract, 1937-38: Woods Brothers Construction Company. Note: Photographs could not be taken at regular intervals because of adverse weather conditions.