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	This safe manufactured by the Manganese Steel Safe Company won first prize at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. Edward Gardner Lewis purchased it for the People's United States Bank. The safe was never installed, but it was housed on the Lewis Publishing Company premises until 1912. A photograph of the safe as it appeared at the World's Fair appeared in "The Siege of University City," by Sidney Morse. In this photograph, taken on the lot east of the Woman's Magazine Building, most of the decorative metal work has been removed.
	When Edward Gardner Lewis opened the People's United States Bank, he hired architect Herbert C. Chivers to design the building. This sketch by artist George Blake includes tall obelisks on either side of the door and sphinxes flanking the broad stairway. Neither of these were included when the building was completed. When the Bank was closed in 1905, Chivers' plans for the intended building were adapted for use as the publishing plant for Lewis' newspaper venture, "The Woman's National Daily."
	Edward Gardner Lewis founded the People's United States Bank in 1904 to provide banking by mail services to his magazine subscribers. This nickel and copper plated model of the planned bank building was offered for children to used in learning to save. When the People's United States Bank was closed and thrown into receivership, Lewis sold these little savings banks for $1.50 through his magazines, under headlines like "Lest We Forget.!"
	When Edward Gardner Lewis announced the opening of the People's United States Bank, subscribers of "The Woman's Magazine" and "The Woman's Farm Journal" sent money for him to deposit. And they sent it wrapped in every conceivable way, including wrapped in newspapers and tied with suspenders. This photograph appeared in several publications, including "The Siege of University City" by Sidney Morse, published in 1912.
	When Edward Gardner Lewis announced the opening of the People's United States Bank, subscribers of "The Woman's Magazine" and "The Woman's Farm Journal" sent money for him to deposit. This photograph was intended to demonstrate just how many deposits and letters to Lewis were sent by express company.
	When Edward Gardner Lewis announced the opening of the People's United States Bank, subscribers of "The Woman's Magazine" and "The Woman's Farm Journal" sent money for him to deposit. This photograph was intended to demonstrate just how many deposits and letters to Lewis were sent by express company.
	This photograph shows the offices of the People's United States Bank which were on the 5th floor of the Woman's Magazine Building until a separate building could be constructed. The Bank was closed by the State of Missouri in 1905, before a new building could be completed. This same photograph was also used in promotional material for the People's Savings Trust Company, Edward Gardner Lewis' second banking venture, which he founded in 1908. The offices of the People Savings Trust Company were also on the 5th floor of the Woman's Magazine Building.
	Edward Gardner Lewis selected this piece of property on the south side of Delmar Boulevard across from the Woman's Magazine Building as the site for the new building for the People's United States Bank. When the Bank was thrown into receivership 1905, plans for the intended building were adapted for use as the publishing plant for Lewis' newspaper venture, "The Woman's National Daily." The house on the upper left is facing Washington Avenue. The curved path in the dirt on the right was graded for Trinity Avenue.

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