Certamina ludis Historicus et Martialis Artist
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
In December 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. Quod acceperunt viri $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
Scarlet pandunt vestigia nigrae (1945) quinta undecim membranae Charlie Chan Monogram picturae productae post seriem in serie vicensima Fox resignavit 1942. Fecit hercle, nam membranae Toler Sidney Undecim series est ad movendum quam Fox monogramma. Post Toler mortuus est in 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. In hoc film, Inspector Charlie Chan invenit a
Praesent, 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 edition of St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 autem 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard
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. Autem, 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
In 2010, St. Louis was the 58th largest city in the United States and the 19th largest metropolitan area. Around the turn of the century, it was the fifth or sixth largest city in the United States and the largest west of the Mississippi River. St. Louis had one of the largest clothing, shoe and beer manufacturing industries in
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Ludovicus vicinitatibus locus. I originally wrote about the building in 2013 but it was demolished sometime before March 2015. The building is part of an area being developed for a government complex in St. Ludovicus, so it was not able to be saved. Hae imagines sunt
Charlie in Paris Chan (1935) aliud est ingressu in series starring Warner Holandiae princeps, sicut Charlie Chan. Charlie revertatur a London inquisitionem, Parisiis cum quieverit velit. Lorem ipsum, feriarum operculum est quaestionis de vinculis fictis ex Lamartine Bank .. Charlie constituit procuratorem undercover nomine Nardi sed cohors Nardi necat
Die Jovis, September 9, 1875, George “Mitchell” Gassert and William Salisbury went to Fred Fisher’s Saloon at the corner of N. Jefferson and Morgan (Delmar today). After ordering drinks, the two young men of unsavory reputation refused to pay for their drinks. Post mercedem quaerit illicita, Fisher summoned St. Louis Police Officer John Cummings. Officer Cummings, assignata
For the Sunday, June 24, 1900 edition of St. Louis de re publica, a reporter interviewed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond about the increasing violence of the new criminal. Postquam 10 years as St. Louis Chief of Detectives and one of the most noted thief takers in United States, Dux Desmoniae lamentatus est vim augendam quam videbat