Headlines from the Oct. 13, 1925, front page include:

Dwight Davis named to succeed Weeks as Secretary of War

Gloom for 1,200 'Sunny Jim' pie machine owners

Gas explosion cause unknown, Laclede verdict

Click on the front page to read it at stltoday.newspapers.com

News judgment has changed over the last 100 years; modern papers have changed how things like suicide and race are covered and referred to. These historic pages are presented as published.

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