Photograph of a seal playing a set of horns while its trainer holds out a microphone at the St. Louis Zoo. In the background is a seated group of visitors coming to see the show.
Here, photographically, is a record of the 1940 All-Star game, played yesterday at Sportsmans Park. At the left the two managers get together and Bill McKechnie (left), Cincinnati's gift to the National League, seems to be getting in the last work against Joe Cronin, the Red Sox contribution to the American League lineup. Bill had the last word all the way.
The dredges (Ste. Gen.) and (William Black) as the dredge opposite each other with 100 feet between them remaining, which will complete the diversion channel project. 50 ft. of the earth will not be dredged, it will be blasted. This is at station 7+00.
MRS. WILMOTH WALLER, children's matron at the Masonic Home of Missouri, 5351 Delmar bl., for 27 years, was given a surprise birthday party last night. About 300 of her former children, many with children of their own, attended. Mrs. Waller is shown with some of her present charges. From left, they are: Tom Jenkins, 9; Polly Herman, 5; Patsy Lindsey, 11; Judith Trayenoff, 4; Bill Adams, 10; Beulah
Light on the River - August 18, 1880. The Steamer Chas. P. Chouteau, lying at the foot of Market street, attracted considerable attention along the levee last evening by its two electric lights, which shone forth with intense brightness. The Chouteau is the first steamer at this point on the Mississippi River to substitute an electric llight for the old fashioned pine-torch illuminators, and the
Dredging of first cut completed and dredge is about halfway of canal length as it backs out. View is to lower end of canal. Kansas City District, channel diversion.