Vol. XXII. No. 49. Devoted to the Marine Profession, Yachting and Commercial Interests. Official Organ of the Western Rivers' Ferry Owners' Association.
Central National Highway From the Mississippi River to the Pacific. Document about the railroad to the Pacific Ocean and whether it will be a Southern route or a Central route
This document contains the 1861 annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the 1861 tenth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. The cover is labeled ninth report, but the tenth is within. It discusses the bust of Thomas Hart Benton, the portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by George Caleb Bingham, and various other affairs of the
Friedrich Hecker (1811-1881) - Germans today regard him as a 19th century Che Guevara, a revolutionary who had to flee the rifles of royalist troops. He was given a hero's welcome in the United States, stopping in St. Louis and later moving to a small town near Belleville.