The winners of the Saturday morning quarter-final round of the Spelling Bee are congratulated by the pronouncer Brad Harrison. From left; Nancy Geuss, Janet Evansco, Cheryl Begeman, Carolyn Mitchell, Tim Meinzen, Laura Nelson, Doug Dripps and Sarah Norvell.
Long job confronts painters putting a new white coat on the 230-foot stack of the Hardy Salt Company, a landmark for 41 years at 800 South Vandeventer ave. The tapered, reinforced concrete structure is the tallest stack in St. Louis it measures 16 feet 8 inches at the base and 10 feet 10 inches at the top.
Old Newsboy Fever: Representatives of Beacker Realty in Belleville get wrapper up in the Old Newsboys spirit. From left are Bill Tayon, Ira Plouff, Marie Becker, Cesta Hall, and Santa Claus, potrayed by Sunny Marshall. Mrs. Marshall will wear her Santa Claus outfit as she and some 30 other Becker representatives sell the special edition of the globe-democrat Nov, 17."
This building at 4144 Lindell Blvd. is now known as The Insurance Exchange Building to make the name more representative of the various insurance operations housed there. It formerly was known as The General Insurors Building.
"Merrell Laboratory, Inc. recently moved to this new plant located at 1330 North Roch Hill Road in St. Louis County. The new facility features a 3 1/2-acre landscaped tract and is equipped with complete receiving and shipping facilities. Merrell Laboratory engages in private label cosmetics manufacturing and serves as consultants in this and related fields."
"Construction officials, army officers and representatives of the Military Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives watched workmen pour the 435,900th yard of concrete at the small arms ammunition plant yesterday as the plant nears completion."
"Photograph of an oil painting of the two-room log cabin, which was the first American Mother House of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Attic sleeping quarters were reached by an outside ladder, as shown. The cabin convent was on the site of the present Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the order in America will be observed in mid-April."
"Outside view of the Holy Family Chapel at the Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the majority of the solemn religious exercises will be held in connection with the observance, in mid-April, of the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment, in America, of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet."
"Eastern view of the present Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment, in America, of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, will be celebrated in mid-April."
Manuscript lease indenture between John Scudder and Benjamin L. Turnbull to lease the Missouri Hotel in St. Louis. The manuscript, dated November 15, 1836, contains witness signatures and an inventory of hotel goods, including feather-beds, lamps, linens, and a Franklin stove. The document indicates the property will be used as a tavern or house of entertainment, and a list of payments is