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On November 13, 1908, The New York Times reported that stock value in St. Louis banks and trusts companies had increased by $3,020,000 since October 31, due to a "complete revival of confidence" in the St. Louis Stock Exchange. The times stated that brokers related that it was the heaviest buying the city had seen in three years, leaving them ...
The Missouri Fur Company (also known as the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company or the Manuel Lisa Trading Company) was one of the earliest fur trading companies in St. Louis, Missouri. Dissolved and reorganized several times, it operated under various names from 1809 until its final dissolution in 1830. [1]
After Robidoux returned to St. Louis about 1823, he worked as a baker and confectioner. In 1826, he was hired by the American Fur Company to establish a trading post at the Blacksnake Hills (near the site on the Missouri River of present-day Saint Joseph, Missouri.) He remained their employee for four years, at the salary of $1,800 a year ...
Pierre Chouteau followed in the family footsteps by starting a trade with the Osage tribe at age 15. He also operated lead mines around Dubuque, Iowa until the War of 1812 . [ 3 ] Chouteau was a member of Bernard Pratte and Company, the Western agent for John Jacob Astor 's American Fur Company in 1827.
Congressional stock trading is back in the limelight following a New York Times analysis that found 97 members of Congress engaged in stock market transactions that could potentially be seen as ...
Patriot Coal Corporation was a coal-mining company based in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. The company was a spin-off of most of the Eastern U.S. operations of Peabody Energy. Patriot was the second largest coal miner east of the Mississippi River. The company's operations were made up of 16 mining complexes.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a major competing St. Louis daily newspaper, located one block away on the same street, closed in 1986; St. Louis Sun, a short-lived competing daily newspaper started in 1989; 100 Neediest Cases, an annual charitable giving campaign sponsored in part by the Post-Dispatch; Riverfront Times, the St. Louis weekly newspaper
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis; St. Louis Reveille - St. Louis [6] [7] The Beacon (Kansas City) - Kansas City metropolitan area; The Carthage Press - Carthage; The Daily Star-Journal - Warrensburg; The Kaleidoscope Weekly - St. James; The Kansas City Star - Kansas City; The Leader - Festus; The Lebanon Daily Record - Lebanon; The Mexico ...