Sejarawan Olahraga Tempur dan Artis Bela Diri
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, 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. However, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt memilih Menteri Perang dan mantan Gubernur Filipina
Sunday morning, Agustus 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 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
Dalam salah satu kebetulan yang aneh dari sejarah, Streetcar Presiden Uni Sherman C. Patterson ditikam oleh seorang masinis serikat bernama Edward Canty setelah perselisihan sedan. Pada saat beberapa lawan-lawannya di 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Mogok akan senang untuk melihat Dia dikirim pada kereta api luar kota, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Juli 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, yang
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 “Jules”, 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. Kakek
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Dalam Line of Duty: St. Polisi Louis Who Made Kurban Ultimate oleh Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath dan Mayor 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. Louis
Charlie Chan di Museum Wax (1940) dibintangi Sidney Toler sebagai Charlie Chan adalah film yang favorit saya Charlie Chan. Charlie Chan sedang mencari seorang pembunuh di museum lilin. Museum lilin adalah sebuah front untuk dokter bedah plastik, yang mengubah tampilan penjahat ingin untuk harga. The surgeon Dr. Cream, played by C. Henry Gordon, juga
Paman Oscar Von Burg dan Bibi Dorothy Von Burg (née Mosblech) adalah teman terdekat kakek dan nenek saya. 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. Baik Paman Oscar maupun Kakek tidak menari, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt
Pada November 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,