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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, film clasic, and miscellaneous history.
Luni, Decembrie 15, 1902, St. Louis Police Assistant Chief of Detectives James H. Smith retired from the police department to take a position in the coal industry. Chief of Detectives William Desmond attempted to convince Smith to stay but he decided to retire from the force as his fortieth birthday approached. Smith compiled a commendable record as Desmond’s Assistant.
H.G. Wells wrote the story of Things to Come, which was turned into a film in 1936. The film opens during Christmas 1940 in Everytown (obviously London) right before the outbreak of war. The war lasts almost thirty years before “the Airmen” led by John Cabal, a former resident of Everytown, leads the survivors to victory over the remaining war
Stan Laurel și Oliver Hardy juca într-unul din filmele mele preferate de vacanță, Babe in Toyland (affiliate link) sau Marșul soldaților de lemn (1934). Se arată în mod normal în jurul Ziua Recunostintei. Acest film are Stan Laurel ca Stannie Dum și Oliver Hardy ca Ollie Dee, care încearcă să ajute mama Peep, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby, the wicked
The Mosblechs have very large families as a rule. My great grandfather Eduard Mosblech was one of twelve children. Eduard had fourteen children and his brothers had twelve and thirteen children respectively. While I have not yet been able to verify the size of the other two families, both Mom and I remember it the same way. Grandma Ellis had
Theodore Roosevelt a luat o decizie fatidica în ziua alegerilor 1904. El a anunțat după ce a fost ales la președinția în dreptul său propriu, după ascendentă la biroul de la asasinarea lui William McKinley că nu va candida pentru un nou mandat în 1908. Roosevelt a servit aproape un mandat complet înainte de alegerea sa ca McKinley a fost asasinat în septembrie 1901.
Vineri, Octombrie 21, 1904, one of the greatest tragedies in St. Louis Police history occurred when two train robbers and three St. Louis Police detectives died in a shootout. The gunfight occurred in a small hotel room on Pine Street. Two days later on Sunday, Octombrie 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
During April 1885, St. Louis experienced one of its most sensational murders. Two English travelers had checked into the Southern Hotel in early April 1885. C. Arthur Preller and H. M. Brooks, who was going by the alias of Dr. Maxwell, appeared to be very friendly. Although they had separate rooms, they often stayed in the same room together. At
Luni, Martie 5, 1900, St. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, un 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
Charlie Chan la Treasure Island (1939) este al treilea Twentieth-Century Fox filmul încearcă Sidney Toler ca Charlie Chan. Inspectorul Chan și Jimmy Chan, jucat de Victor Sen Yung, zboară la Expoziția Mondială de la San Francisco din 1939 pe măsură ce filmul se deschide. Plimbare cu hopuri face Jimmy foarte nervos. Tot în zbor se află și prietenul lui Charlie, Paul Essex, played
Sâmbătă, Martie 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran și detectivii