היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Posts about the history of St. לואיס, מיזורי, family history, סרט קלאסי, and miscellaneous history.
H. H. 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.
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. אולם, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. רוזוולט בחר במזכיר המלחמה שלו ובמושל לשעבר של הפיליפינים
Sunday morning, אוגוסט 12, 1900, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". 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 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
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 <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
ביום שני בערב, יולי 16, 1917, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". לואיס קצין משטרת יוליוס H. Petring שהוקצה לאגף שוק הצפון נכנס בית דירות להשכרה ב 2301 N. רחוב שוק. Petring שאל בחנות ויליאם דיטריך לשכור חדר לו ולאשתו. שלו “אישה” היה החברה שהתגרשה לאחרונה פרידה Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, מי
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “מחסה” אליס’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “יתד”, 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. סבא
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, בעת מילוי תפקידו: <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath and Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. With his hair parted down the middle and a big mustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. לואיס
צ'רלי צ'אן במוזיאון השעווה (1940) starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan is my favorite Charlie Chan film. צ'רלי צ'אן מחפש רוצח במוזיאון שעווה. מוזיאון השעווה הוא חזית למנתח פלסטי, שמשנה את המראה של פושעים מבוקשים במחיר. מנתח ד"ר. קרם, played by C. הנרי גורדון, also
Uncle Oscar Von Burg and Aunt Dorothy Von Burg nee Mosblech were my grandparents’ closest friends. Grandma Ellis and Aunt Dorothy were sisters separated in age by about a year and a half. Grandpa Ellis and Uncle Oscar became close friends when they were dating the sisters. Neither Uncle Oscar nor Grandpa danced, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt
בנובמבר 7, 1890, Chief of Detectives William Desmond brought in Pat Kennedy, a low-level St. Louis crook, who was suspected of stealing 20 cents from a cigar store on North 9th Street. A 3rd District St. Louis Police Officer captured Kennedy after he robbed a Miss Minnie Mullaney at 16th Street and Franklin Avenue. Kennedy proved a first-rate coward,