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...President beamed and waved his gold-headed cane at the applause and finished his hike without drawing a deep breath; he topped the day off with a speech (see above) to 30,000 people who had gathered along the Mississippi riverfront to dedicate St. Louis' new park, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial...
...South St. Louis, near the bleak and dreary Mississippi riverfront, there stands a gingerbread jumble of 100 buildings which form a city in themselves. They cover an area larger (72 city blocks) than Chicago's Loop, contain a spic & span power plant big enough to serve a city the size of Dallas, and are surrounded with as much rail trackage as Indianapolis. Each year, the buildings consume 3,522,980,000 gallons of water, 4,500,000 bushels of malted barley and the entire output (192,000 tons) of a nearby coal mine. Over them all hangs the sick...
...fast that within a few months he had filled his basement with books to be mailed. When his wife protested that she hadn't enough room to do the washing, he moved his Webster Publishing Co. (named after Noah and Daniel) to two rat-infested rooms on the riverfront. Within three years, Webster's sales amounted to $102,000. By 1928, they had doubled. By 1931, W.P. had another idea...
Smooth, slick-haired and hardworking, Charley Binaggio, 39, moved into control of Kansas City's North Side, a riverfront area of dumpy houses and taverns which had spawned Pendergastery. He quickly expanded into other wards. The Kansas City Star attacked Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press...
...days of heavy rains brimmed over the Ohio River, drove 31,000 people from their homes, cost, seven lives. The flood was one of the highest in Ohio River history, but it was no disaster. Thanks to control dams, Cincinnati's flood was confined mostly to its downtown riverfront lowlands. Other river towns-Marietta and Pomeroy, Ohio, Wheeling and Parkersburg, W.Va.-weren't so lucky...