Tournament of Roses trophy presentation. Pictured from left: Mayor Raymond R. Tucker; John H. Poelker, comptroller of city of St. Louis; Stanley L. Hahn, President, Tournament of Roses Association; August A. Busch, Jr.
Pictured above are recently installed Falstaff storage tanks. The tanks are the first of their kind in the United States and are used to store beer after it is fermented.
Automatic toll collector on Eads Bridge, put into operation Friday midnight, is watched by attendant Don Alexander and motorist drops toll payment into the basket-like collector.
, 1902, while ascending the Chattahooche River she struck a snag in Frances Bend and sank. The damage was listed as $20,000 to the steamer and $500 to the cargo. Such a high damage figure would imply that she was a total loss but such was not the case. She sank twice more as near Eufala, Alabama in 1906 and finally at the Columbus, Georgia wharf in 1908. After the 1908 sinking she was dismantled. Her
Town house development in Mill Creek Valley has enough applications to fill all of the 279 units. Of the 130 units completed, 120 are occupied, and 10 other families are preparing to move in. The academic group makes up the largest single classification of the town house occupants.
\"The pilot house was a sumptuous glass temple; room enough to have a dance in; showy red and gold window curtains; an imposing sofa; leather cushions and a back to the high bench where visiting pilots sit, to spin yarns and 'look at the river'; bright, fanciful 'cuspidores'; new oil cloth on the floor; a hospitable big stove for winter; a wheel as high as one's head, costly with inlaid work; a wire-tiller rope; bright brass knobs for the bells; and a tidy, white-aproned, black'texas tender', to bring up tarts and ices and coffee during mid-watch, day and night. The pilot house ssemed perched on a mountain; and her decks stretched far away, fore and aft below one.\" From Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. Note: The bearded gentleman was Captain John Crane, the master of the Belle Memphis for many years.
It describes the camel dress and wool jacket worn by model at The Globe-Democrat Fall Festival of Fashions, Wednesday night at Kiel Auditorium Convention Hall.
"Sonic Boom Gripes Pouring Into Scott - Two serious damage claims filed; closet contents hit woman on head. Sonic boom damage is pointed out by William Hodge of 3915 N Florissant ave., who reported that a wall 8 feet high and 2 feet wide collapsed after one of the shock waves hit Tuesday night."
Tournement of Roses trophy presentation…..Mayor Tucker….John H. Poelker, comptroller of City of St. Louis….Stanley L. Hohn, Pres. Tournement of Roses Assn….August A. Busch, Jr.
Six more Jefferson Bank and Trust Co. racial demonstrators were jailed Thursday on orders of Circuit Judge Michael J. Scott for criminal contempt of court.