Ληστής Βοηθά Catch Killer

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Η. Η. Holmes was America’s first known serial killer in the modern definition of the word. Holmes operated “the Murder Castle”, a Chicago hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Holmes would eventually be convicted of sixteen murders but may have murdered more than 100 people during his operation of the hotel. What is less well known is that St.

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Εξοικονόμηση από τον τελευταίο χορό για Tam

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Γνώρισα τη γυναίκα μου στο γάμο της αδελφής μου το Σεπτέμβριο 1995. Είχα γνωστό Tam ως ο καλύτερος φίλος μικρή αδελφή μου για 10 χρόνια, αλλά εγώ δεν την βλέπω πραγματικά ως τη γυναίκα που είχε γίνει μέχρι αυτή την ημέρα στα τέλη Σεπτεμβρίου. I actually got to know her better because I was on wolf duty this day although it

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Charlie Chan στο Treasure Island (1939)

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Charlie Chan στο Treasure Island (1939) είναι η τρίτη Twentieth-Century Fox ταινία με πρωταγωνιστή τον Σίντνεϊ Toler ως Charlie Chan. Ο επιθεωρητής Chan και ο Jimmy Chan, παίζεται από Victor Sen Yung, πετούν στην Παγκόσμια Έκθεση του Σαν Φρανσίσκο στο 1939 καθώς ανοίγει η ταινία. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. Στην πτήση είναι επίσης ο φίλος του Τσάρλι, Πολ Έσεξ, played

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The Way to Live in Health and Strength

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For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (affiliate link) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 years until losing his

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Amateur Sleuth Catches Dynamitards

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Sunday morning, Αύγουστος 12, 1900, St. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 μ.μ. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet

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Union President Stabbed In 1900 Απεργία

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In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by

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William Muldoon και την υγεία του Farm

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William Muldoon, ένας πρώην ντετέκτιβ της Νέας Υόρκης, κέρδισε το Πρωτάθλημα Πάλης Παγκόσμιο ελληνορωμαϊκής νικώντας Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon βασίλεψε για δέκα χρόνια πριν από τη συνταξιοδότησή ως πρωταθλητής. Μετά τη συνταξιοδότησή του, άρχισε να κάνει τα προς το ζην ως προσωπικός εκπαιδευτής. Muldoon trained many wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for

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Green Rank – The Last Beginning Step

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After you earn your Green Rank, you will have completed your first year of training. Congratulations. On average, 75 percent of students who started with you have already quit training. Lucky for you, they will be much better targets for criminals. A humorous anecdote is told about two campers worried about a bear attack. One of the campers tells his

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

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On Monday evening, Ιούλιος 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 Ν. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. Του “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, που

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Herman Johannpeter (1878 – 1921)

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When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Stud”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Παππούς

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