The Black Raven (1943)

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Czarny Kruk (1943) jest “B” film (związek partnerski) from Producers Releasing Corporation (ChRL). George Zucco plays Amos Bradford aka the Raven, Właściciel Black Raven Inn. Bradford ends up hosting several unexpected guests, who are escaping a raging thunderstorm. The storm washed out all the bridges and stranded the visitors, which include a couple trying to elope,

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John Riley Collects Poll Tax

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My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. One of the mechanisms governments used to collect fees for road

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Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)

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W lipcu 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (związek partnerski). W tym filmie, John Davis Lodge plays Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond. Drummond is vacationing, when a Scottish scientist escapes from a couple of secret agents. The scientist throws a rock through the window of Drummond’s cabin.

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Wrestling Champion Próbuje Boks

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We wtorek, Styczeń 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, lekarz Seattle i pro wrestlerem, który był na tyle dobry, aby wygrać amerykańską Heavyweight Championship, niewytłumaczalny sposób postanowił spróbować swoich sił w boksie zawodowym. Jego przeciwnikiem był sparing partnerem i przyjacielem, “Denver” Ed Martin, kto wygra Colored World Heavyweight Championship Boxing. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete

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