GODREY, ILL. (12 April 1985) Artist E. (Ned) Engelhardt Giverson, working on the figure of Robert P. Wadlow, the Alton Giant at the Lewis and Clark College, Trimpe building.
Thomas T. Kerslake writes of his travels from Ontario, Canada to New Zealand in 1877. He leaves Plattsville, Ontario, Canada on September 29, 1877. Traveling across the United States by rail, he gives accounts of large and small cities (Chicago, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Promontory Point, San Francisco) and of the landscape and wild life on the plains and the Mississippi River. At San
Vol. XXXIX, No. 27. Includes the program for the Ohio Valley Improvement Association's 32nd Annual Convention in Paducah, Kentucky, which took place on October 11 and 12, 1926.
Vol. XXXIX, No. 27. Announces meeting of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association in Paducah, Kentucky on October 11 and 12 of 1926. Retrospective account of the river career of Commodore F. A. Laidley, the former president of the Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company.
Critic of Clark's scientific work as well as a claim for the initial invention of the gas blowpipe by Robert Hare, M.D., who invented the Hydro-oxygen blowpipe.
"Walter Gruenert and Gladys Rosenow waltz to the strains of the orchestra, left, while everyone joins in the dancing in the streamer-decorated Crusader Room, above. Sister Donna Loretto Gunn dances with Ben Bogdanov, and Estelle Menzel shows of the fan sleeve of her dress while dancing with her brother, W. J. Wagner."
Pictured: Estelle Menzel and W. J. Wagner.
Captioned on back: "Mr. and Mrs. James Connelly (he is blind). The couple was married 54 years ago May 4. Mrs. Connelly is 86 and her groom of 64 years will be 86 in July of this year. The couple are residents of the San Luis Apartments."
"Two elderly men were critically injured and about 30 people were evacuated from their homes in the San Luis Apartments, 4483 Lindell Blvd., when a two-alarm fire broke out on the 11th floor of the senior citizen's residence Thursday night. The residents - some semi-invalids - were rousted by firefighters from their 10th and 11th floor apartments in the center tower of the 266-unit, E-shaped
A flatbed trailer stacked with construction material waits for the Mississippi River to recede further Friday. This photograph was taken from the Illinois side of the river.