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My daughter Caity is 21 years old this week. It is a bittersweet birthday because my baby girl isn’t my baby girl anymore. I am so proud of the young woman she has become but as she grew up I regretted not being able to pick her up, wipe her tears and make the “small hurts” go away. Caity came
I recently finished Evan “The Strangler” Lewis: The Wrestler mais temido do século 19. Evan Lewis era um perito qualificado apresentação durante a era de wrestling profissional legítimo, embora ele tenha participado em algumas partidas premeditado. Em Janeiro de 1886, Evan Lewis used his dreaded stranglehold on Sorakichi Matsada. According to several newspapers, Lewis attempted to “estrangular Sorakichi para
The Canary Murder Case (1929) was originally shot as a silent film. However, the Paramount Studio executive thought it would be better as a talking picture. The studio delayed the release until they could add sound to the film. The addition of sound was not without its challenges. Infelizmente, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, had
For the October 5, 1861 edition of the Cincinnati Daily Press, editors pulled a story off the wire service from the Spirit of the Times. The wire story reported on a fight between former English prizefighting champion Tom Sayers and current English champion Jem Mace. Both Sayers and Mace were touring with English circuses, when they stopped in at a
William Desmond nabbed many thieves during his 17 year career as St. Louis Chief of Detectives. He developed a nationwide reputation as “The Thief Taker”. Na segunda-feira, Outubro 15, 1900, Chief Desmond nabbed the pants of a thief but not the thief himself. Jonas Washington entered the yard of Shickle, Harrison and Howard Iron Foundry at 12th and Gratiot Streets
Sam McVey cansado da falta de oportunidade para os lutadores negros nos Estados Unidos durante o início do século XX. McVey decidiu partir para a Europa em 1907, onde ele lutou até 1911. McVey lutou na Austrália por mais três anos, antes de voltar para os Estados Unidos. Este breve filme de destaque da França em 1911 com “Battling” Jim Johnson shows
Em agosto 31, 1901, Night Watchman William Doherty descoberto Willis Garner burglarizing o cargo de Schickle, Harrison e Companhia Ferro Howard em 912 S. Twelfth Street em St. Louis, Missouri. A empresa de ferro empregada Garner, que jogou um martelo na cabeça de Doherty. The hammer missed its target but the confusion allowed Garner to jump out the window and make his
Murder sobre New York (1940) é uma das edições posteriores da série Charlie Chan para a Twentieth-Century Fox Productions. Neste filme, Inspector Chan está a ajudar seu velho amigo da Scotland Yard, Inspector Drake, encontrar um grupo de sabotadores. Os espiões pretendem sabotar algum ofício do ar de teste em Nova York. Inspector Drake está traçando Paul Narvo, who leads
Em outubro 6, 1890, barbeiros locais Luther Duncan e Bob Henderson saiu para a N. 11th Street para resolver uma briga. Esta área de St. Louis foi conhecido como “Profundo Morgan”. “Profundo Morgan” was home to bordello, falhanço casas e as mais difíceis saloon Africano-americanos na cidade, Forte’ Salão. Ambos Duncan Henderson e eram barbeiros negros, who worked in
Em dezembro de 3, 1896, three men entered the Home Brewery Office in St. Louis at around 2:30 p.m. Cashier Robert Hofferkamp approached the men. The men produced revolvers and told Hofferkamp and his assistant to throw up their hands. The men took $10,000 from the office in what would be a multi-million dollar heist today. The robbers tied up and