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On Dec. 10, 1933, Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann laid the cornerstone for the Homer G. Phillips Hospital for Colored, at 2601 Whittier Street. The hospital was named for an attorney
On Dec. 9, 1971, a former mayor of St. Louis died. Here is his news obituary from the next day's Post-Dispatch:
The city finally banned high-polluting but cheap coal from southern Illinois mines, sparking howls of outrage from miners and coal dealers.
The Expressway Highway opened on July 19, 1937, at a cost of $3 million. The highway, which eventually would become part of Highway 40, ran from Kingshighway to Vandeventer
The sky in St. Louis wasn't always as clear as the picture. It wasn't on Tuesday, November 28, 1939, you couldn't see five feet in front of your face.