Book excerpt: Excerpt from St. Louis, One Hundred Years in a Week: Celebration of the Centennial of Incorporation, October Third to Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Nine Whereas, The attention of the Municipal Assembly has been called to the fact that November 9, 1909, will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the incorpora tion of St. Louis as a town; and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.