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It was very cold on the morning of Sunday, Desanm 5, 1880, about 2 a.m., when St. Louis Police Officer Sheehan found the front door open to John R. Lionberger’s home. Owing to the bitter cold, Sheehan feared burglars had entered the residence. Sheehan rang the bell repeatedly but could not awaken anyone inside. Sheehan began rapping his night stick against the
Over the next three weeks, I will be releasing posts, which are excerpts from the book I’m currently working on and one from a previously published book. The following unedited story is from the book I’m working on which will be released in the Fall or early Winter 2017. William Rudolph proved elusive after his Independence Day escape from the
Sherlock Holmes ap fè fas lanmò (1943) se blesi ki baze sou avanti a nan Musgrave seremoni an. Istwa a kout te pibliye nan magazin nan Strand Theatre pandan Me 1893. Li te pita konpile nan memwa yo nan Sherlock Holmes. Nan istwa a, chato la Musgrave ki te fèt yon sekrè ke menm li nan moun ki rete pa t 'konnen. This film follows the same plot line
Few events shocked St. Louis like the line of duty death of Lt. Sidney Sears in June 1924. For almost 30 ane, Lt. Sears was considered the best pistol shot on the St. Depatman Lapolis Louis. Nan 1904, Sears was also National Pistol Champion of the United States. For someone to kill Lt. Sears in a shootout was considered impossible.
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. I originally wrote about the building in 2013 but it was demolished sometime before March 2015. The building is part of an area being developed for a government complex in St. Louis, so it was not able to be saved. These pictures are
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) starring
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Depi fanatik sèlman konsidere Clarence Whistler kalifye ase yo reyèlman menase rèy li, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Sou Me 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, ki moun ki
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) is the final entry in “B” film series. RKO Pictures took the series over from Republic Pictures, who released the original Dick Tracy serials in the late 1930s and early 1940s. RKO Pictures released the film to theaters on September 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
When thinking about African American history month, I thought about the first great Black wrestler that I saw personally. When I started watching wrestling in St. Louis during 1979, “Sailor” Art Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 a.m. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the