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Pada hari Khamis, Januari 23, 1902, St. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, salah satu St. Louis’ lelaki terkaya, hartanah kediaman yang dimiliki dan aset lain yang bernilai 2 juta dolar. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. He
Pada Julai 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Walaupun Georges Carpentier
Pada Mac 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. The Bashful Bachelor (1942) starred Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody, the owners of the Jot’Em Down Store in Arkansas. Dalam filem ini (link affiliate), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
Pada hari Selasa, Januari 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, a Seattle physician and pro wrestler who was good enough to win the American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably decided to try his hand at professional boxing. His opponent was friend and sparring partner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Petani” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 pound. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg wrestled in
On January 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, takes him
Tom Allen dilahirkan di Birmingham, England tetapi bertarung dengan beberapa pergaduhannya yang paling terkenal di Amerika. Dalam 1867, Allen berpindah ke St. Louis, bandar terbesar di barat Mississippi. Allen tidak pernah pergi dan akan menggunakan St. Louis sebagai pangkalannya untuk berlatih untuk pertandingan hadiah. Allen berlawan kebanyakannya dalam pertarungan buku jari kosong kerana tinju Amerika tidak akan berlaku
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Selalunya ditulis sebagai Edward tetapi disebut seperti menyusun bantuan dan wad, Eduard was as unique as his name. Saya bergelut dengan menulis banyak tentang dia kerana cerita yang saya dengar tentang dia
Apabila ia datang kepada politik mesin dan jenayah terancang, Kansas City sentiasa outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City juga rumah kepada beberapa tembakan Gangland berprofil tinggi. St. Louis’ pemimpin jenayah terancang lepas telah ditangkap kerana bermain kad. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, April 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was employed as a mechanic at