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Title: Preparing for Dedication and Blasting of Plug
Date: 1952-10-02
Description: Dredging completed for first cut in Pilot Canal. Dredge is backing out of canal. On right bank is speaker's stand and cleared area being prepared for dedication and blasting of plug on October 4, 1952. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Admiral Boarding/Disembarking
Date: 1952-06-16
Description: p11-3-1-40-5

Title: Advancing Dredge
Date: 1952-09-21
Description: Dredge as it advances forward through canal cut at station 17+50 after having advanced 4,000 feet with 1,700 feet remaining to be cut. Total production 859,260 cu. yards. Canal cut: 200 feet wide. Depth: 16 feet. Bank height: 17.5 feet. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Detonation to Open Diversion Channel
Date: 1952-10-04
Description: Showing detonation of 3,000 lbs. of dynamite that blasted out the plug to open diversion channel. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: William H. Black
Date: 1952-09-28
Description: Showing dredge (William H. Black) headed directly into canal cut after it had dredged out opening. The (Ste. Genevieve) is at station 10+50'. Kansas City District, channel diversion.

Title: Sainte Genevieve and William H. Black
Date: 1952-10-01
Description: The dredges (Ste. Genevieve) and (William H. Black) as they dredge opposite each other with 100 feet reamining to be dredged to mark completion of the channel diversion. An Earth wall 50' wide will be left and blasted out Saturday, October 4, 1052. Dredges now at stations 6+00' and 7+00'. Kansas City DIstrict, channel diversion.

Title: William H. Black at Upper End of Pilot Canal
Date: 1952-10-03
Description: Showing dredge (William H. Black) at upper end of Pilot Canal for Channel Diversion Project.

Title: Making The Drew For the Missouri All-age Classic
Date: 1952-03-29
Description: Official got together Thursday night to make the drawing for braces in the second of four field trial stakes sponsored by the Globe-Democrat.

Title: Little Pistol Hit The Bull's Eye
Date: 1952-03-31
Description: Little Pistol, the winner of the Globe-Democrat and Missouri State Field Trial Association's cosponsored Missouri Open All-Age stake yesterday, is shown with his handler, Bert Black, who guided the quail question over the courses at Weldon Spring.

Title: Three Dog Trophied
Date: 1952-03-25
Description: The three contenders sit together as a winning team.

Title: Board of Education-No Quorum Showed Up
Date: 1952, 1952
Description: No quorum showed up at a special meeting of the St. Louis Board of Education called for yesterday.

Title: Crowd Waiting To Register at the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners
Date: 1952-10-12, 1952-10-26
Description: Throngs waiting to register at the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners recently included a good represenation of Negroes, whose vote is an important factor in the outcome of elections here.

Title: Busy Bee Candy Company's 37th Anniversary Reunion
Date: 1952-06-02, 1952-06-02
Description: Fifty-five former Busy Bee Candy Company employees gathered at Hotel Saum, 1919 South Grand bl., yesterday for their thirty-seventh reunion.

Title: The Jobless Filing for Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Date: 1952-01-04
Description: "Thousands of St. Louisans have been applying for unemployment compensation at the Missouri Division of Employment Security at 1709 Locust st. in recent weeks because of season layoffs and severe weather which has shut down construction. This is part of the crowd waiting in line yesterday."

Title: Musical Director
Date: 1952-12-21
Description: "Musical director Charles Galloway discusses problems with key people. From left, Helen Graves, soloist; Galloway; Ruth Greene, Vashon choir director. Standing, Harold Jagels, chorale director; Charles Cordeal, organist; William Kirchoff, Lutheran choir director."

Title: Cook Books
Date: 1952-12-25, 1952-12-25
Description: Sign reads The Newspaper of the 49th State, The Great Globe Democrat. Two young girls are buried up to their shoulders in food store coupons.How would you like to count all these coupons? These are some of the hundreds of thousands that have been pouring into St. Louis food stores in demand for the popular Globe-Democrat cookbooks. These two statistical clerks, Joan Bice (left), and Gloria Elze stopped counting coupons when they researched the million mark.

Title: Cook Books
Date: 1952-07-13, 1952-07-13
Description: Young Appetites took over the scene yesterday when Mrs. Erwin J. Fischer, St. Louis homemaker, was presented an advance collection of Globe-Democrat cook books. The series of recipes, soon to be available to Globe-Democrat readers, are small compact books beautifully illustrated in color. If Mrs. Fischer's children have anything to say about their merit, she soon ought to be the best cook in town. The youngsters are, from the left: Mary Claire, Jack (standing), Dianne, Tom and Bill.

Title: The Young Pro And Old Amateurs
Date: 1952-04-29
Description: They young pro and old amateurs got together last night at the opening of the Globe-Democrat casting tourney to look over the latest in fancy fishin' gear.

Title: The Globe-Democrat's Casting Tourney
Date: 1952-04-16
Description: The Globe-Democrat casting tourney to be held Apr. 26-May 4 at the St. Louis Sports, Travel and Boat Show, gets an able assist annually from these members of the Cardondelet Fly and Bait Casting Club.

Title: No Smoking
Date: 1952-09-19
Description: No smoking is the rule for (from left) Mrs. Mildred Latta, Mrs. Beverly Hartwig, Miss Barbara Richmond and Mrs. Harriet Lucke.

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