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Title: Sixth Billionth Cartridge
Date: 1945-05-03
Description: "Beauty and the bullets! Attractive Georgia Summers, of 5193 Cabanne avenue, employee at the United States Cartridge Company, operating the St. Louis Ordnance plant, can well be a pinup girl for the armed forces in this photo where she displays the sixth billionth cartridge produced at the plant. The six billion milestone was reached this year and Miss Summers is shown placing the cartridge on display with the previous billion markers."

Title: Relics of St. Aurelia
Date: 1945-06
Description: "In 1861, Reverend Mother Saint John Facemaz, Superior General of the Congregation, during a visit to the Holy City, obtained... the body of the child-martyr, St. Aurelia... The principal well-preserved bones are encased in a waxen figure clothed in Roman tunic and mantle, and the smaller ones are sealed in a metallic case, near which is placed the Vas Sanguinis, the vial of blood found in the

Title: Midwestern Conference Revolver Match
Date: 1944-06-01
Description: "The Revolver Team of the United States Cartridge Company, recent winner of the seventh Midwestern Conference revolver match, is pictured here. Led by Chief H.S. Crow, the team won five of seven matches, setting a record with a score of 1959 out of a possible 2,000. The members, from left, are Sergt. R. Howell, G. Shanks, Sergt. D. Kobel, Chief Crow, J, Wafler, Sergt. E. Drenkhahn, G. Matthews

Title: Relics at St. joseph's Convent
Date: 1945-06
Description: "In 1861, Reverend Mother Saint John Facemaz, Superior General of the Congregation, during a visit to the Holy City, obtained... the body of the child-martyr, St. Aurelia... The principal well-preserved bones are encased in a waxen figure clothed in Roman tunic and mantle, and the smaller ones are sealed in a metallic case, near which is placed the Vas Sanguinis, the vial of blood found in the

Title: Workers Get Laid Off
Date: 1945-07-19
Description: "St. Louis ordinance plant workers who soon will be laid off as the plant closes, staged a demonstration yesterday to support a move to get severance pay. An estimated 5,000 workers took part in the demonstration on the plant grounds, voting to send a delegation to Washington if payment of severance pay isn't approved by William Davis, Director of Economic Stabilization."

Title: "Workers Here Hear Heroes Speak"
Date: 1943-05-27
Description: "Jack the Ripper's crew made an appearance before this gathering of workers at the small arms ammunition plant yesterday afternoon. It was one stop on a day-long series of visits which the crew of the famous Flying Fortress, which bombed Naziland 11 times, made at war plants here yesterday."

Title: Street View of Convent
Date: 1949-12-11
Description: "Rear view of St. Joseph's Convent, taken from Holly Hills and Pennsylvania."

Title: "The Fighting Father Dunne"
Date: 1948-04-21
Description: her work has largely in institutions for children before her retirement last year to Nazareth Convent in Lemay. The picture will have its world premiere in St. Louis May 11."

Title: New Sisters Professing their Vows
Date: 1948-03-20
Description: "Twenty-five young women were received as Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet yesterday at their Mother house, 6400 Minnesota Ave. They dressed in white for the ceremonies at which they received the black garb of Sisters. Thirty-one novices professed their vows as part of the rituals at which Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter officiated."

Title: Relics of Saint Nerusia Euticia
Date: 1945-06
Description: "Foremost among these are the entire bodies of nine martyrs, six of which occupy prominent places in the chapel at the Mother House... The body of Saint Nerusia Euticia, a young Roman noblewoman of the second century, was taken from the Cemetery of Saint Calipodius July 16, 1801. It reposes in a sarcophagus of rich wood and plate glass. The skeleton is held together with gauze, through which the

Title: Georgia Girls Vow to Religious Life
Date: 1946-09-15
Description: "Five Georgia girls, scheduled to enter the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, 6400 Minnesota Ave., arrived by plane from Atlanta, Ga., yesterday at Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport. They were greeted by Sisters Margaret John (left) and Susanne Marie of Fontbonne College. Shown from the left, on the plane steps, are: Rosaline Salome, Jeanne Stulb, Jeannette Harrington, Margarete Ann Cambell and Jeanne McGovern."

Title: Relics of St. Discolius
Date: 1945-06
Description: "Foremost among these are the entire bodies of nine martyrs, six of which occupy prominent places in the chapel at the Mother House... The body of St. Discolius, a boy of twelve years, was removed from the cemetery of St. Agnes in 1802. The stone slab accompanying it bears a hand, a bird, and the inscription 'Discolius in Pace,' all rudely carved."

Title: Table Tennis Champs
Date: 1947-03-25
Description: , second in senior men's competition. All will go to the midwest tournament at Chicago Apr. 19."

Title: View Of Table Tennis Tournament
Date: 1947-03-23
Description: "A panoramic view of the Globe-Democrat novice table tennis tournament is provided here of the assembly-line action as early matches got underway yesterday afternoon at St. Louis U. Gymnasium. A total of 261 players, winners and runners-up of district tournaments all over the city, was to see action yesterday and today."

Title: Carmelite Monastery Clayton Road
Date: 1948-04-06, 1948-04-06
Description: Mary Jane Flynn waited with her attendants (left) for the ceremony to begin yesterday. Her sister, Margaret Ellen served as a bridesmaid, and her 4-year-old cousin, Carol Ann McGrath, was flower girl. Before she began her march to the altar, Mary Jane posed, with her mother (above), Mrs. Catherine Flynn, a widow. Many Jane, 23, is a graduate nurse. She attended St. Mark's High School and St. John's School of Nursing. Last October she entered Carmel to begin to begin preparing for her religious life. The Thomas J. Flynn was her father.

Title: Event Winners of the Casting Tournament
Date: 1949-01-31
Description: Event winners of the casting tournament, which was sponsored by the Globe-Democrat and was concluded yesterday at Kiel Auditorium, display the trophies they had just received from Robert L. Burnes, Globe-Democrat sports editor. The champions are, from the left: Price Smith, junior 5/8-ounce accuracy; Thomas Moore, juvenile skish; Mrs. James Venable, women's 5/8-ounce accuracy; J. Hartman, fisherman's skish; Charles Schall, 5/8-ounce accuracy, dry fly and all-around honors; C.F. Forcade, wet fly, and Fred Sexauer St., 3/8-ounce accuracy."

Title: American Railroad Company of Porto Rico [sic] Correspondence and RFC report, 1942.
Date: 1942, 1942
Description: 1942 report on the railroad situation in Puerto Rico by John W. Barriger III

Title: New Machine Simplifies Milk Production
Date: 1948-08-27
Description: "This marvelous machine at the Milk Package Exchange, Inc., 1200 South Spring Ave., gives that sparkling new look to old, grimy milk bottles which operator Roy Rogers is feeding into the device. The clean bottles are shown as they emerge to travel along a conveyor belt to the packers."

Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash)
Date: Circa 1947
Description: Side view of the "City of Kansas City", the Wabash's newest ACF streamliner, as it heads for open country and leaves St. Louis on its speedy 278-mile journey.

Title: "City of Kansas City" (Wabash)
Date: 1947-11
Description: Rear view of "City of Kansas City" diner car

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