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1909 je verjetno najslabše leto Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman življenje. Izgubil je tako svojo Desetmesečno hčerko Ida maj Zimmerman in njegovo drugo ženo Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Pred Parkerja smrti v Cape Giraurdeau tornado 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Januarja 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. Medtem ko britanski
Novembra 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 in Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 otroci. St. Louis Archdiocese dedicated the church
The International Wrestling Tournament occurred in two phases between May 19, 1915 and December 31, 1915. Fifty wrestlers would compete in the first phase of the tournament including World Greco-Roman Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. The second installment had 40 wrestlers including up and coming star Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
Tistih nekaj ljudi, ki vedo o Profesionalen pevec Paddy Ryan ga verjetno poznate kot John L. Sullivan je žrtev. Sullivan premagati Ryana za Težji Prizefighting prvenstvu v 1882. Ryan je bil sam po sebi dober borec. Ryan se je rodil marca 15, 1851 na Irskem. Njegova družina emigrirala v Trojo, New York. Ryan je bil ves čas znan
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. It is not clear if Charles Sanders actions attracted Printz’s attention, or Printz just stumbled upon Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz walked up to 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
V zadnjem času, 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 izdaja St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 of the 14 Mosblech children. Še nikoli nisem videl sliko mojih velikih starih staršev, Eduard
Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) je druga filmska priredba Louis Feuillade je v priljubljeni seriji kriminala Marcell Allain Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre igra vlogo Fantomas in njegovih številnih vzdevkov. Edmund Breon portretira Inspector Juve. George Melchior igra vlogo Jerome Fandor, Mlada novinarka, ki pomaga Juve v svojih preiskavah Fantomas. Juve in Fandor so
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. Vendar, 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. Chief Desmond said