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	On May 20, 1910 over 100 automobiles carrying delegates to the National Conference of Charities and Correction were on parade in University City. This photograph was taken from the Woman's National Daily Building as the automobiles passed the Woman's Magazine Building on Delmar Boulevard. The Art Academy and the Press Annex are just behind the Woman's Magazine Building. This photograph appeared in "The Woman's National Daily" on May 24, 1910.
	Elliot W. Major, Missouri Attorney General visited University City on October 7, 1912. Major was a candidate for governor of Missouri. Later that fall, he was elected and served as governor from 1913 until 1917. In this photograph he is being welcomed by citizens of University City who had gathered to hear him speak at University City City Hall.
	On June 19, 1910, Miss Julia Hoerner launched this gas balloon with Captain John Berry from an area that had been designated as the Missouri Aero Club Grounds, just west of the Woman's National Daily Building . This photograph was taken as the balloon headed west over Delmar Boulevard. According to the newspaper story that appeared with this photograph in "The Woman's National Daily" on June 21, 1910, they took off just before a storm and ascended to 1,500 feet. They landed 10 miles west after a harrowing flight. The newspaper article reported that Miss Hoerner was the first St. Louis woman to pilot a gas balloon on a pleasure flight.
	In early 1910, Louise Thomas, principal of Lenox Hall, a private school for girls in St. Louis, announced that the school would be moving to a new building to be constructed in University City. Teachers and students gathered at Trinity and Washington Avenues in the rain on March 2, 1910 for the ground breaking ceremony. This photograph appeared in "The Woman's National Daily" on March 3, 1910.
	The purpose of this gathering of gentlemen and automobiles in front of the Woman's National Daily Building is unknown. One automobile is identified as a Buick, and all have been decorated with American flags.

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