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1909 probablement va ser el pitjor any de la vida de Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman. Ell va perdre els seus deu mesos d'edat, filla d'Anada May Zimmerman i la seva segona esposa Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Abans de la mort de Parker al Cap Giraurdeau Tornado de 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Al gener 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. Mentre que britànic
Al novembre 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 nens. El St. L'arxidiòcesi de Louis va dedicar l'església
Es va produir el Torneig Internacional de Lluita Lliure en dues fases entre maig 19, 1915 i desembre 31, 1915. Cinquanta lluitadors competiran en la primera fase del torneig com World grecoromana Campió Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. El segon lliurament va tenir 40 lluitadors inclosos ascendents i que vénen estrella Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. La
The few people who know about the prizefighter Paddy Ryan probably know him as John L. Sullivan’s victim. Sullivan beat Ryan for the Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship in 1882. Ryan era un bon lluitador per dret propi, però. Ryan va néixer el març 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, New York. Ryan era conegut pel seu
On the evening of June 1, 1879, St. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. Louis’ South Side. No està clar si les accions de Charles Sanders van cridar l'atenció de Printz, o Printz acaba de topar amb Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz es va acostar a Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. When
Warner Baxter returns for a fourth time as Dr. Robert Ordway in The Crime Doctor’s Courage (1945). The newly married third wife of Gordon Carson asks Dr. Ordway to look into his first two wives’ mysterious deaths. Authorities declared both cases to be accidents. Kathleen Carson, played by Hillary Brooke, has begun to doubt the official verdict. Dr. Ordway arrives
Recentment, I was searching for information about my Great Uncle Francis’ marriage to my Great Aunt Rosemary Kalt. What I discovered was an unexpected genealogy treasure, a picture in the July 5 edició del St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 of the 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard
Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) is Louis Feuillade’s second film adaptation of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre plays the role of Fantomas and his many aliases. Edmund Breon portrays Inspector Juve. George Melchior plays the role of Jerome Fandor, a young journalist, who assists Juve in his investigations of Fantomas. Juve and Fandor are
St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond had respect for the “old school criminals”, who plied their trade in St. Louis during the late 19th Century. Però, he did not have the same degree of respect for the thug tactics of the “new school criminals”. These criminals made up for a lack of finesse with great violence. va dir el cap Desmond