Identifying the object in the Nov. 12-13 "What Is It?" Contest was easy for the winner of the contest, Peggy Boehm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Boehm of Frontenac, Mo. Identification of the object as a bed warmer was simple for the twelve-year-old Parkway seventh grader because she has one at home. It was brought from Germany long before Peggy was born. She receives a $10 gift certificate
Jefferson City, MO (15 May 1982) part of the military award recipients in the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol building, Jefferson City, Missouri.
K. Leslie Gillam, 10 years old, wanted to know from his mother (Dorris Gillam) when his father S.F.C. Kermit Gillam was getting his award. The Family is from Potosi, MO.
These well know St. Louisans are up to their necks in the task of examining some of the thousands of entries in the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names" contest. They will certify the winning entries within a few days. They are, left to right: Frank C. Hamilton, president of the St. Louis Advertising Club; Thomas N. Dysart, president of the St. louis Chamber of Commerce; James J. Fitzgerald, president of the Board of Education; Mayor Dickman, and nelson R. Darragh, president of the Better Business Bureau.
Steel-rimmed wooden truck tires and steel-rimmed wagon wheels rolled into service yesterday at the loading platform at the 1133 Franklin avenue when the Globe-Democrat inaugurated a new system of delivery to solve the rubber tire shortage. The vehicles are loaded with magazines for today's editions of the Globe-Democrat.
Bettendorf-Rapp Display at the Globe-Democrat Modern Living Show attracts considerable attention from the thousands of visitors attending the fifth annual show at Kiel Auditorium. The show, open from noon to 10:15 p.m., ends Saturday.
Crowd gathers at Modern Living Show around Jim Denker of the Cottage Bakery in St. Charles, as he demonstrates the art of icing a cake in the Master Retail bakers booth. Cakes were later auctioned for the benefit of the Cripples Children's Society.
Avis Buttons with the slogan "We Try Harder" in many languages is displayed at the Avis rent-a-car booth at the Modern Living Show by Miss Karen Nelson.
'Space Twins' Toni Dolan and Caralie Hall decorate an air conditioner condensing unit at the Space Conditioning, Inc., booth at the Modern Living Show.
Ready for the Celebrity Cake Baking Contest, Ed Wilson, Wew's popular morning record spinner, demonstrates the form he hopes will enable him to take him to take first place Tuesday evening at Kiel Auditorium.
Ron Love, E. J. Korvette Sunset Hills store manager, and Renee Striblin of 1321 McCutcheon Ave., Richmond Heights, winner of the 1910 Tin Lizzie given away by Korvette, look over a scale model of the car in front of the Korvette store.
This map of September 23, 1911, which covers construction of the Nevada - California - Oregon Railway (NCO) between Alturas and Davis Creek, California (a distance of about 32 miles), has been shared by the Shasta Division Archives. The Alturas, California to Lakeview, Oregon portion of the NCO was purchased by Southern Pacific on April 30, 1925, and would become its Lakeview Branch. At the