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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area.It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the Belleville News-Democrat, Alton Telegraph, and Edwardsville Intelligencer.
The Desloge family, (/ d ə ˈ l oʊ ʒ /) [1] centered mostly in Missouri and especially at St. Louis, [2] rose to wealth through international commerce, sugar refining, oil drilling, fur trading, mineral mining, saw milling, manufacturing, railroads, real estate, and riverboats. The family has funded hospitals and donated large tracts of land ...
Our Own Oddities is an illustrated panel that ran in the Sunday comics section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from September 1, 1940 to February 24, 1991. [1] The feature displayed curiosities submitted by local readers and is often remembered for its drawings of freakish produce, such as a potato that resembled Richard Nixon.
The following people have all worked for or been otherwise closely associated with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pages in category " St. Louis Post-Dispatch people" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
Steve Mizerany (died April 15, 2011) was an American business owner and media personality. Mizerany was known in St. Louis, Missouri for the outsized personality he displayed as the star of his own advertisements. Mizerany grew up in the LaSalle Park neighborhood of St. Louis and was graduated from McKinley High School.
Thomas Egan (November 1, 1874 – April 20, 1919) was an American politician and organized crime figure involved in bootlegging and illegal gambling in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] Egan was the namesake of the infamous Egan's Rats.
The 1939 St. Louis smog was a severe smog episode that affected St. Louis, Missouri on November 28, 1939. Visibility was so limited that streetlights remained lit throughout the day and motorists needed their headlights to navigate city streets.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch; St. Louis Star-Times; 0–9. 100 Neediest Cases; O. Our Own Oddities; W. Weatherbird This page was last edited on 27 April 2020, at 12:03 ...