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1909 var förmodligen det värsta året för Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman liv. Han förlorade både sin tio månader gamla dotter Ida May Zimmerman och hans andra hustru Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Innan Parkers död 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
På Januari 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. Medan brittiska
På 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 and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 children. The St. Louis ärkestift invigde kyrkan
Den internationella Wrestling Tournament skedde i två etapper mellan maj 19, 1915 och december 31, 1915. Femtio brottare skulle tävla i den första fasen av turneringen, inklusive Världs grekisk-romerska Champion Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. Den andra delen hade 40 brottare inklusive upp och kommande stjärnan 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 dock en bra fighter i sin egen rätt. Ryan föddes i mars 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, New York. Ryan var känd under hela sin tid
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 är inte klart om Charles Sanders handlingar väckte Printz uppmärksamhet, eller Printz snubblade precis över Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz gick fram till Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. När
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
Nyligen, 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 upplagan 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) är Louis Feuillade andra filmatisering av den populära kriminalserie från Marcell Allain och Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre spelar rollen som Fantomas och hans många alias. Edmund Breon porträtterar inspektör Juve. George Melchior spelar rollen av Jerome Fandor, en ung 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. Emellertid, 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