Saint Louis Zoo
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‘Our parasite class’
A neighborhood group in St. Louis recently held an event to commemorate “what many have claimed as the first cocktail party: the legendary 1917 soirée hosted by Mrs. Julius S. Walsh Jr. at her Lindell Boulevard home.” As with other “legendary” events, the passage of time has blurred some details. Continue reading
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Jerry the smoking St. Louis orangutan
St. Louis still celebrates some of the long-ago residents of its famous zoo. Phil the gorilla. Mr. Moke the chimp. Moby Dick the sea elephant. Siegfried the walrus. But not Jerry. This much-photographed orangutan showed up in newspapers across the nation in the 1940s — and even scored appearances in Life magazine and in at Continue reading
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