A Found Family Treasure

סבתא רבא-סבא-אליס

לפני שבועות, חיפשתי עותק של Ivanhoe מאת סר וולטר סקוט מהספרייה הישנה של סבי. סבא גילברט פ. לאליס הייתה ספרייה שהוא נתן לי בתחילת שנות ה-90. הספרים האלה ושולחן העבודה שלו הם אוצרות שיישארו איתי עד יום מותי. בתור ילד, נהגתי לשבת אצלו

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Detective Desmond Catches Eddie Guerin

אדים-גרן

Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. לואיס”, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Louis Police history, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French

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Black Belts Need Skill and Character

טריי - מקבל -שחור - חגורה

At our fantasy football draft this year, one of the other owners asked me who I thought was the best mixed martial artist of all time. I told him that based on skill, the greatest mixed martial artist of all time was Jon “Bones” Jones. אולם, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the

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William Muldoon Defeats Local Wrestler

ויליאם-מאלדון

ויליאם מלדון, היאבקות אלוף העולם יוון ורומא וחסיד תרבות הגופנית, הגעתי ללוס אנג'לס ביום שלישי, אפריל 15, 1884 כדי להתמודד עם המתאבק המקומי פרד באואר. המשחק התקיים באולם Turnvereine המקומי בלוס אנג'לס. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he

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ביום שלישי, נובמבר 5, 1901, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for

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Gilford Dudley Story (1797-1870)

פארקר-הארי-דולי-פרנקו

Gilford Dudley Story (1797 – 1870) is my third great-grandfather. There are six generations between the two of us. רק לאחרונה הצלחתי למצוא מידע על משפחת סטורי, one of the branches of the family my research had not turned up as much information on. במשך שנים, לא הצלחתי למצוא את סבתא רבא שלי דולי צימרמן לבית

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1922 Morris Packing Company Robbery

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On the morning of Saturday, אפריל 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Broadway. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. The time

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George Baptiste Dies

ג'ורג-Baptiste

בדצמבר 1, 1938 ב 5:15 בערב, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 גיל. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home

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Scratch One Off The Bucket List

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Last Monday, I was able to scratch a big item off my bucket list. I attended a Liverpool Football Club game in person. Liverpool FC came to my hometown of St. לואיס, Missouri on August 1, 2016 to play a preseason game with AS Roma. My daughter Caity attended the match with me, which made the day extra special. <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "359" = bbox_w "1462" = bbox_h "4" = fsize "20" = fweight "14" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = "

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Murder at 2912 וושינגטון

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Buildings are just piles of boards and bricks without the stories that are attached to them. During November 1912, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis Police Officer Arthur Huddleston was killed by paroled murderer Albert Whitefield. Whitefield had surprised his common-law wife, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for

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