So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942)

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Monogram Pictures released So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942) ar Ebrill 17, 1942. Zasu Pitts stars as Aunt Emma Bates. In her youth, Aunt Emma was engaged to up-and-coming professional fighter Jim O’Banion. Her sister didn’t approve of the match, so they sent her on a trip to break up the couple. Aunt Emma regretted it and starts following the career

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John Riley Collects Poll Tax

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My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. Un o'r mecanweithiau a ddefnyddir gan lywodraethau i gasglu ffioedd ar gyfer ffyrdd

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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)

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Twentieth Century – Fox Film Company released the fourth Mr. Ffilm Moto, Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938), on June 24, 1938. Lou Breslow and John Patrick set the film in Cambodia allowing Twentieth-Century Fox to use stock footage of the recently discovered ruins of Angkor Wat. The discovery of Angkor Wat captured the attention of the American public. llawer

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Hyrwyddwr Wrestling Ceisiau Bocsio

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Ar ddydd Mawrth, Ionawr 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, meddyg Seattle a wrestler pro a oedd yn ddigon da i ennill y Bencampwriaeth Pwysau Trwm America, Penderfynodd anesboniadwy i roi cynnig ar ei law yn bocsio proffesiynol. Ei wrthwynebydd yn gyfaill a sparring partner, “Denver” Ed Martin, a fyddai'n ennill Pencampwriaeth Bocsio Pwysau Trwm y Byd Lliwiog. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete

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Streetcar Strike Mob Attacks Woman

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I have always said the St. Louis Streetcar Streic y 1900 was not the story of the evil streetcar companies exploiting the innocent workers. “The innocent workers” committed many deplorable acts during the streetcar strike. One of their most frequent tactics involved stripping woman in public who rode the streetcars during the strike. Amazingly, roedd eu dioddefwyr yn ifanc ac yn ddeniadol

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