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1909 var trolig det verste året for Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman liv. Han mistet både sin ti måneder gamle datter Ida May Zimmerman og hans andre kone Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Før Parkers død i Cape Giraurdeau Tornado av 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Januar 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. While British
November 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 og Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 children. The St. Louis erkebispedømmet viet kirken
Den internasjonale Wrestling Tournament skjedde i to faser mellom mai 19, 1915 og desember 31, 1915. Femti brytere ville konkurrere i den første fasen av turneringen, inkludert Verdens gresk-romersk Champion Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. Den andre utgaven hadde 40 brytere inkludert opp og kommende stjerne Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Den
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 var imidlertid en god fighter i seg selv. Ryan ble født i mars 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, New York. Ryan var kjent gjennom hele hans
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. Det er ikke klart om Charles Sanders handlinger tiltrakk Printz oppmerksomhet, eller Printz snublet nettopp over Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz gikk bort til Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. Når
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
Nylig, 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 utgave av 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) er Louis Feuillade nest filmversjonen av den populære krimserien ved Marcell Allain og Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre spiller rollen som Fantomas og hans mange aliaser. Edmund Breon skildrer Inspektør Juve. George Melchior spiller rollen Jerome Fandor, en ung journalist, som bistår Juve i sine undersøkelser av 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. However, 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. sa sjef Desmond