Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Fyrsti frændi afa míns, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, var einn af St. Louis’ brautryðjendur flugvéla. Julius, sem var þekktur í fjölskyldunni sem “Punks”, gekk til liðs við þjóðvarðliðið um miðjan 1920. Hann yrði skipaður undirforingi. Júlíus flaug flugvélum bæði fyrir herinn og borgaralega flugherinn. Flestir menn í herdeild hans, sem innihélt Charles
During the last week of December 1902, William Rudolph, a recently returned miner to Franklin County, and George Collins robbed the Union Bank in Union, MO. They robbed it overnight, when no one was present by blowing up the safe. 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
Á miðvikudaginn, Janúar 10, 1900, St. Louis lögreglumaðurinn Paul Girard stóð á horni S. Taylor og Lindell Boulevard, þegar hann sá mann hoppa af annarri hæð í 4511 Lindell Boulevard. Veit um nýleg innbrot í auðuga Central West End hverfinu, Girard nálgaðist manninn. Þegar haltrandi sá Girard, hann hljóp í átt að S.
Á laugardag, Nóvember 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 mínútur. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem possessed
On February 26, 1943, RKO Pictures released the third film based on the popular Lum and Abner radio show. Two Weeks To Live (1943) stars Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody. Lauck and Goff, who also wrote the show, played the characters on radio beginning in 1931. The show began as a 15 minute radio
Yfir hans 17 árs feril, St. William Desmond, rannsóknarlögreglustjóri Louis, tókst á við marga fjölskyldumeðlimi glæpamannsins. Sumir fjölskyldumeðlimir voru jafn slæmir eða verri en glæpamaðurinn Desmond og menn hans höfðu læst inni. Þó, margir fjölskyldumeðlimir voru heiðarlegir, duglegt fólk, sem átti erfitt með að skilja hvað fór úrskeiðis hjá ástvini þeirra. Snemma á ferlinum
On the morning of Wednesday, Júlí 8, 1885, the Coroner’s Clerk Jimmy Spaulding rushed into the Police Court at the Four Courts building. Spaulding announced one of the jail inmates waiting in the holding pen had just escaped. While most of the members of court sat stunned, Detective Billy Desmond jumped to his feet and rushed out of the courtroom.