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Page 90 - Every conductor, baggage master, engineer, brakeman, or other servant of any railroad corporation employed in a passenger train, or at stations for passengers, shall wear upon his hat or cap a badge, which shall indicate his office, and the initial letters of the style of the corporation by which he is employed.
Page 256 - The General Assembly shall have power to require, by law, that every child, of sufficient mental and physical ability, shall attend the public schools during the period between the ages of five and eighteen years, for a term equivalent to sixteen months (unless educated by other means).
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Page 728 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Saint Louis: The Future Great City of the World : with Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men and Women of St. Louis and Missouri |
| Author | L. U. Reavis |
| Publisher | C. R. Barns, 1876 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 940 pages |
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