"St. louis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... monotonous examination of hotel registers, a canvassing of ticket agencies and cab stands and transfer companies. It was anything but story-book sleuthing. It was a dispiriting tread-mill round, but he was still sifting doggedly through the tailings of possibilities when a code-wire came from St. Louis, saying Binhart had been seen the day before ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer
... by Madame Matilde Kriege and her daughter, who had recently arrived from Germany. In 1872 Miss Marie Boelte opened a similar teacher-training school in New York City, and in 1873 her pupil, Miss Susan Blow, accepted the invitation of Superintendent William T. Harris, of St. Louis, to go there and open the first public-school kindergarten in the ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... O'Brien of Citronelle, Alabama, received $170 clear from an acre of cucumbers shipped to the St. Louis market. He was two weeks late in getting them on the market. He says those two weeks would have meant nearly double the net returns. He does not consider this an extraordinary return and hopes to ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall
... the Faithful. Small and black, crowned with jewels, in a mantle blazing with gold and precious stones and pearls, she held on her knees the Child Jesus, who was as black as his mother and passed his head through a slit in her cloak. It was the miraculous image which St. Louis had received as a gift from the Soldan of Egypt and had carried with his own hands to the ...
— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France
... collection of Christmas verse and prose in which all the old favorites will be found in an artistic setting."—The St. Louis Mirror. ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins
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