Westliche Post
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Westliche Post was a German-language daily newspaper published in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1857 to 1938. The Westliche Post was Republican in politics. Carl Schurz was a part owner for a time, and se
Westliche Post Building Fifth and Market Streets
Carl Daenzer, founder
Joseph Pulitzer, editor and stakeholder
The Naked Truth, unveiled in 1914, was a gift to the city of St. Louis by the German-American Alliance in honor of Carl Schurz, Emil Preetorius and Carl Daenzer, editors of the Westliche Post.
St. Louis Mercantile Library
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The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a membership library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. S
Current home of the library on the UMSL Campus
Mercantile Library Hall, ca. 1870
Statue of Beatrice Cenci (1857)