Jack Johnson a boj o storočie

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Potom, čo Jack Johnson sa stal majstrom, nedostatok silných súperov spôsobil tlak verejnosti pre montáž na James J. Jeffires, odišiel bývalý preborník v ťažkej váhe, ukončiť svoj odchod do dôchodku a bojovať Johnson. Jeffries bol považovaný za prvý a najdôveryhodnejší z “White Hope” uchádzači. V jeho najlepších rokoch, Jeffries asi nemohol poraziť Johnson. Na 35 years of age and nearly 300

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Ira Cooper Unravels Money Order Theft

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On February 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. Louis. Spočiatku, the American Bankers Association hired private detectives. After the detectives were unable to discover any serious leads, the association turned the case over to the St. Police Department Louis. When the bank association turned over the

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Hannah McLaughlin Desmond (1879 – 1904)

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On January 7, 1903, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. Však, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an

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