Federal aid approaching $116 million is announced to help the St. Louis community recover from record-breaking summer floods. Aid benefits over 13,500 households, according to a Learfield News report. This photo shows a much earlier St. Louis flood that took place around 1910.
Photo credit: Bain News Service, P. (ca. 1910) On the levee, St. Louis, during flood. , ca. 1910. [Between and Ca. 1915] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014690355/.
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