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On September 15, 1887, a muscular man stood in the First District Police Court listening to Judge Cady. As he looked out between eyes almost swollen shut and a busted lip, he waited to see if justice would be done. It was as Judge Cady told the beaten man, “$10 fine for disturbing the peace. $100 for resisting arrest. You
November 30, 1910, rapportene kom fra England som tidligere World Heavyweight prizefighting Champion Jem Mace hadde dødd på 79 år. Mace var verdensmesteren fra 1860 til 1862 og igjen fra 1866 til 1876. Etter angivelig å tjene en million dollar i en karriere som strakte seg 1857 til 1909, Jem Mace døde pengelens. He was laid to rest
On September 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. For år, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
“Terrible” Terry McGovern proved to be a rare fighter at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While smaller boxers packed no power in their punches, McGovern, who scaled between 110 and 126 pounds, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. Juli 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at
August 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis møtte den britiske Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon i Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Det var i hvert fall det jeg opprinnelig trodde og de fleste historikere har sitert. Moderne
Min bestefars første fetter, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, var en av St. Louis’ flypionerer. Julius, som var kjent i familien som “Punks”, sluttet seg til Air National Guard på midten av 1920-tallet. Han ville få oppdrag som løytnant. Julius fløy fly både for det militære og det sivile luftkorpset. De fleste mennene i enheten hans, som inkluderte Charles
I løpet av den siste uken i desember 1902, William Rudolph, en nylig returnert miner å Franklin County, og George Collins ranet Union Bank i Union, MO. De ranet den over natten, når ingen var til stede ved å blåse opp safen. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
While a few actors played Charlie Chan before Warner Oland and a few portrayed Inspector Chan after Roland Winters, the main body of Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan film adaptations occurred between 1931 til 1949. Warner Oland began playing Charlie Chan in The Black Camel (1931). After his death, Sidney Toler started playing the role of Charlie Chan in the
On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into