Page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from June 4, 1881. The page contains two large images. The image at the top is a view of Kansas City based on a photograph by M. B. Bower. The image at the bottom is of a sixty-thousand-pound steamship bed being poured at the Morgan Iron-Works in New York City.
The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken
The Kansas City organized crime family led by Nicholas Civella holds a secret interest in the Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas "fronted" by St. Louis attorney Morris A. Shenker, the FBI alleged in court documents made public Friday.