Cleaning up on the levee, city workmen cut up a piece of driftwood as they spruce up the area for the bicentennial celebration. Eads Bridge is in the background.
The fifth in Boehl's series of construction work on the bridge, first over the Mississippi south of the Missouri, shows all three spans joined in 1873.
OLD AND NEW CARDINAL FACES. Veteran lefthander Curt Simmons (above) will pitch Wednesday night's home opener for the Cardinals against the champion Los Angeles Dodgers at Busch Stadium.
Participating in Church News Clinic, which was sponsored by The Globe-Democrat Monday from left are: Willam P. Lamkin, publicity director of the Presbyterian Council, moderator; Walter E. Orthwein, Globe-Democrat church editor, and Dr. O. Walter Wagner, executive director of the Metropolitan Church Federation, who gave the invocation.
PROMPT PAYMENT OF LOSES in case of disaster is what sells fire insurance. This old advertisement shows an agent of the old German Mutual Fire Insurance Company of St. Louis ready with the cash as dad presents the policy while mother and the children are fleeing from the fire. The view of the St. Louis levee shows Eads Bridge some time after it was completed in 1871.
Interior of Globe Democrat Mail Room. Mail Call at the Globe Democrat as employees package diet and physical fitness kits in response to thousand of requests from readers.
"Lights burning in the new Federal building, Fifteenth and Market street, at 8:15 p.m. Monday are reflected by the snow and indicate that the 'lights out' presidential order that is being put into practice in Washington, D.C., has not yet reached St. Louis."