Combat Sports Historian at Martial Artist
1909 noon ay marahil ang pinakamasama taon ng buhay Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman ni. Nawala niya ang kanyang kapwa sampung buwan lumang anak na babae Ida Mayo Zimmerman at sa kanyang ikalawang asawa Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Bago kamatayan Parker sa ang Cape Giraurdeau Buhawi ng 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Sa Enero 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
Noong Nobyembre 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 mga bata. Ang St. Louis Archdiocese na inialay ang simbahan
Ang International Wrestling Tournament naganap sa dalawang phase sa pagitan ng Mayo 19, 1915 at Disyembre 31, 1915. Limampung wrestlers gusto makipagkumpetensya sa unang yugto ng paligsahan kabilang ang World Greco-Roman Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Ang pangalawang grupo ng paninda ay nagkaroon 40 wrestlers kabilang ang up at darating na star Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Ang
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 ay isang mahusay na fighter sa kanyang sariling karapatan bagaman. Ryan ay ipinanganak noong Marso 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, New York. Ryan ay kilala sa pamamagitan ng ang kanyang
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. Hindi malinaw kung ang mga aksyon ni Charles Sanders ay nakakuha ng atensyon ni Printz, o natisod lang ni Printz si Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Lumapit si Printz kay Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. Kailan
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
Recently, 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 edisyon ng St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 of the 14 Mosblech children. Hindi pa ako nakakita ng larawan ng aking mga lolo't lola, 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. Gayunman, 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. Sabi ni Chief Desmond