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Kate Chopin's first novel, "The Awakening," was panned by many reviewers in 1899 as too racy but has regained status as a fine work in American literature.
Just when Americans needed something to smile about, along came shy, grinning Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare, south St. Louis boy and Navy flying ace
Overseeing the work was Thurlow B. Weed, an undertaker from Texas who claimed to be on official business.
The end of an era for the Missouri Pacific Railroad came on April 7, 1955.
American loyalty was at the center of the trial over false and flimsy charges that man was a spy during World War I.