Stories from the archives of the Louis
Each morning the Post-Dispatch Archives newsletter gives readers a walk through history. Here are some of the articles we produced from our archives.
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You can flip page by page through more than 140 years of Post-Dispatch newspapers.
The first issue of the St. ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ· Post and Dispatch was published on Dec. 12, 1878. Its front page contained international news, holiday sales - and a crime blog.
On Nov. 13, 1833, a meteor shower known as "the night stars fell" became an almost religious event.
On June 8, 1904,Ìý one of Spain's best bullfighters was gunned down at a St. ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ· hotel by a fighter known as the American matador.
On May 4, 1910, President William Howard Taft had quite the day of baseball in St. ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ·.
The paper gave citizen journalists $1 for each item they reported on in a program called "What did you see today?"
The daily "Answer to Queries" column in the Post-Dispatch provided an insight into St. ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ· life in 1919.
In 1943, the ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ· told its readers of the remarkable effectiveness of a new drug, penicillin, in treating infectious diseases.
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Nobody was ever charged after he was found bruised and beaten in Chicago on June 18, 1961.
Long before there was Costco or Sam's Club, there was E.J. Korvette. But two decades after the stores' grand openings, they were gone.
On Nov. 19, 1954, the South Twin Drive In Theater, the first twin-screen drive-in theater in St. ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ· opened at Buckley and Lemay Ferry.
By the time it was over on June 15, 1957, 8.74 inches of rain had fallen in a 14-hour period.
The streaking craze hit a full stride at area campuses in March of 1974.
We take a concert-by-concert trip down memory lane at each of Van Halen's 22 shows spanning 18 tours in St. ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ·.ÌýOver four decades, Van Halen played to packed houses in St. ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ·, no matter the stage, even as other major acts found hard times filling big venues.
When the first Starbucks opened here, many St. ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëùµ¼º½ÍøÖ·ans thought paying more than 50 cents for a cup of coffee was ridiculous.