So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942)

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Monogram Pictures released So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942) on April 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 dos mecanismos empregados polos gobernos para cobrar taxas por estrada

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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)

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Twentieth Century – Fox Film Company released the fourth Mr. Moto película, Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938), en xuño 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. Many

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Wrestling Campión Tenta Boxeo

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O martes, Xaneiro 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Rolo, un médico Seattle e loitador profesional que era bo o suficiente para gañar o Heavyweight Championship americano, inexplicabelmente decidiu probar a súa sorte no boxeo profesional. O seu adversario era amigo e compañeiro de adestramento, “Denver” Ed Martin, quen ía gañar o Campionato Mundial de Boxeo Pesado Coloreada. 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 Strike of 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. Sorprendentemente, their victims were young and attractive

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