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It was very cold on the morning of Sunday, ເດືອນທັນວາ 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 Faces Death (1943) is loosely based on The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. The short story was published in The Strand Magazine during May 1893. It was later compiled in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In the story, the Musgrave Mansion held a secret that even it’s inhabitants did not know. 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 ປີ, Lt. Sears was considered the best pistol shot on the St. ພະແນກຕໍາຫຼວດ Louis. ໃນ 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. ບ້ານສະຖານທີ່ Louis. 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. Since fans only considered Clarence Whistler skilled enough to really threaten his reign, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. On May 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, ຜູ້ທີ່
Dick Tracy ພົບສະຫຍົດສະຫຍອງ (1947) ເປັນການເຂົ້າສຸດທ້າຍໃນ “B” ຊຸດເດ. RKO ຮູບພາບໄດ້ໄລຍະການໃນໄລຍະຈາກສາທາລະນະຮູບພາບ, ຜູ້ທີ່ປ່ອຍອອກມາເມື່ອ serials Dick Tracy ຕົ້ນສະບັບໃນປີ 1930 ທ້າຍປີແລະປີ 1940 ຕົ້ນ. RKO ຮູບພາບປ່ອຍອອກມາຮູບເງົາເພື່ອການລະຄອນໃນເດືອນກັນຍາ 26, 1947. RKO ໄດ້ນໍາເອົາ Boris Karloff ໃນການຫລິ້ນ 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