Newspaper Articles, St. Louis County,MO..Prt of Genealogy Trails

It is charged that the newly appointed postmaster of St. Louis voted for Cleveland and Hendricks, and if he did he should be complimented as a Republican of extraordinary sense and judgment, and will necessarily make a good postmaster.
Richmond Conservator, Ray county, Mo, January 30, 1890[Lisa 2009]

“Blind Tom” Is giving concerts in St. Louis.
The Quincy Whig, Saturday, June 26, 1869, Page1, [transcribed by Debbie Gibson]

The firm of D'Oench & Co., wholesale druggists, of St. Louis, a few days ago received an invoice of the first shipment of Asiatic goods by the Central and Union Pacific Railroad, from San Francisco. They also sent the first shipment through from St. Louis to San Franciaco.
The Quincy Whig, Saturday, June 26, 1869, Page1, [transcribed by Debbie Gibson]

D.C. Spring, of St. Louis, is at the Quincy house.
March 9^th 1880, The Quincy Daily Whig, Adams County, IL [Debbie Lee- 2008]

The National Association of Saddle and Harness Makers at St. Louis elected C. L. Kulp of Louisville, president; J. J. Albinger of Kansas City, vice president, and
W. C. Wolfskill of Dallas, Tex., secretary and treasurer.

Transcribed from The Quincy Morning Whig, July 23, 1893 [Debbie Lee- 2008]

From a St. Louis paper, March 21, 1812

The tremendous effects of earthquakes in this territory have revived an almost obsolete Indian rite in the mode of imploring the Deity and to avert the divine displeasure. Temples are erecting in the Indian villages to make offerings to the Great Spirit. The Shawnese of the Meramec (40 miles from this place) have finished their religious devotions. The following authentic account of it may be interesting to our readers.

This alarming phenomenon of nature, struck with such consternation and dismay, those tribes of Indians that live within and contiguous to that tract of country on the Mississippi where the severity of the earthquake appears to have been the greatest, that they were induced to convene together in order to consult upon the necessity of having recourse to some method of relief from so alarming an incident; when it was resolved to fall upon the following expediment to excite the pity of the Great Spirit.

After a general Hunt had taken place to kill deer enough for the undertaking, a small hut was built to represent a temple or place of offering for a sacrifice. The ceremony was introduced by a general cleansing of the body and face, the novelty of the occasion rendering it unusually awful and interesting. After skinning their deer they suspended them by the fore feet so that the head might be directed to the heavens before the temple as an offering to the Great Spirit. In this attitude they remained for three days, which interval was devoted to such penance as consists in absolute fasting; at night lying on the back upon fresh deer skins; turning their thoughts exclusively upon the happy prospect of immediate protection; that they may conceive dream to the effect, the only vehicle of intercourse between them and the Great Spirit; the old and young men observing a most rigorous abstinence from a cohabitation with the women under the solemn persuasions that for a failure thereof, instant death and condemnation awaited; and lastly, gravely and with much apparent piety, imploring the attention of the Great Spirit to their helpless and distressed condition; acknowledging their absolute dependence on him; entreating his regard for their wives and children; declaring the fatal consequences that must inevitably ensure by withholding his notice, namely the loss of their wives and children, and their total disability to master their game, arising from their constant dread of his anger; and concluded in asserting their full assurance that their prayers are heard, their object is accomplished by a cessation of terrors, and game becoming again plenty and easily overcome.

On the lapse of the three days thus dedicated, believing themselves forgiven for every unwarrantable act of which they were sensible that the offering was accepted, they finally began a mutual relation of their respective dreams; the scene is changed to joy and congratulation by proceeding ravenously to devour the sacrificed deer to allay their fast.
(Source: The Centinel, Gettysburg, Pa., May 27, 1812. Contributed by Nancy Piper)