Chief Desmond Solves Cooper Killing

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El jueves, Enero 23, 1902, St. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, one of St. Louis’ wealthiest men, owned residential real estate and other assets valued at 2 millón de dólares. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Él

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110 Parejas mié en Acción de Gracias 1902

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El miércoles, Noviembre 26, 1902, 110 parejas llegaron al St. Oficina de Licencias de Matrimonio Louis se casó oficialmente en Acción de Gracias. La 110 parejas rompieron el récord anterior establecido en 1901. Este registro sería también sólo reposar durante un año hasta 1903. A partir de las 9 a.m. y continuando hasta 5 p.m., Recorder Hahn issued license after license as three ministers

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Lum y Abner Ven a Cine

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Desde 1931 a 1954, Lum y Abner ocuparon un lugar entre los programas más populares en la época de antaño Radio. Chester Lauck y Norris Goff asistieron a la Universidad de Arkansas en conjunto. Lauck y Goff más tarde desarrollaron su espectáculo Lum y Abner basada en la vida en Arkansas. El espectáculo llegó a un cable con muchos oyentes. My wife’s grandmother once told

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Ned O’Baldwin Shot

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In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Sin embargo, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professional fighting in the 19th Century enjoyed a poor reputation outside of

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John Berg Wins Light Heavy Championship

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John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Agricultor” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 libras. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg wrestled in

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Theodore Roosevelt Wins 6 States in 1912

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After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Sin embargo, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines

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Metropolis (1927)

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En enero 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (enlace de afiliado). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning

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Jefe Butler y el St. Louis Machine

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Cuando se trata de la maquinaria política y el crimen organizado, Kansas City siempre ha eclipsado St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City también fue el hogar de varios tiroteos entre bandas de alto perfil. St. Louis’ último líder del crimen organizado fue detenido por jugar a las cartas. We did have a Democratic party political machine around

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