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ST LOUIS CITY, Missouri in the 1890s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. The St. Louis Brown Stocking Ball Club
    date March 4, 1895 to March 5, 1895map ST LOUIS CITY, Missouritags Arts/Leisure

    The New York Times reported that the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs was on the verge of dissolution on Monday March 4, 1895. National League Baseball was founded slightly before Major League Baseball. The Major League was founded in the early 1900s and since then the two leagues have competed in an annual series of games called the World Series. At the time of the reported near-dissolution,...

  2. Arthur P. Thrasher Correspondence
    date 1895 to 1898map ST LOUIS CITY, Missouritags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Frank and Alice Thrasher lived on a houseboat called Eureka harbored at the end of Bower Street in St. Louis, Missouri in 1897. Their son, Glenn, worked nearby on a tugboat that went up and down the Mississippi, and Frank, a tinsmith from New Orleans, continued a desperate search for work throughout the year. Alice, also out of work, remained on the houseboat most of the time, except for a few explorations...

  3. A Swindling Bookworm.
    date September 3, 1896 to December 3, 1897map ST LOUIS CITY, Missouritags Crime/Violence, Economy, Education, Government, Law

    A man named William Mills Butler was arrested on September 3, 1896 in St. Louis, Missouri on the charge of mail fraud. Going by the alias, Westerfield, Butler was in possession of lithographed letterheads with the name of a former post-master general, W.S. Bissell, and forged the name Westerfield as Secretary. He had them illegally lithographed so that he could use the letterheads to order books without...