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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
On February 23, 1946, my great uncle Francis Mosblech married Rosemary Kalt at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The 23-year old Francis had recently returned from service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Aunt Rosemary was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kalt. Father Clarence Winkler officiated the ceremony. The March 3, 1946 edition of
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Fodd bynnag,, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone and Shea were local criminals, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
At one point before I bought my own house, I thought home repairs were one of my skills. I helped my grandfather, Gilbert Ellis, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. Grandpa Ellis taught me how to replace electrical outlets, washers on sinks and build lots of things with wood. I put together lots of prefabricated
Ar Nos Nadolig 1902, dwy dref fechan, bach-amser, chwythodd dynion holdup agoriad diogel yr Undeb, Banc Missouri. Ar ôl bygwth ychydig o ddinasyddion, gwnaethant i ffwrdd â dros $15,000. Roedd y dynion yn gymharol ddiogel am rai misoedd nes i Asiantaeth Ditectif Pinkerton gael eu galw i mewn. Roedd gan y Pinkertons asiantaeth genedlaethol, sef y peth agosaf i'r United
Mae tua 10 am ddydd Iau, Ebrill 10, 1919, ffrwydrodd pump o ddynion arfog iawn i Fanc Baden. Roedd y lladron yn wynebu M.W. Munzel, yr ariannwr, ac yn mynnu mynediad i'r gladdgell. Fe wnaethant gronni'r pedwar gweithiwr arall wrth i Muntzel arwain y grŵp i'r gladdgell. Roedd y lladron yn gwisgo bandanas lliw i guddio eu nodweddion. Tra mae dau o'r pum dyn
On August 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. Yn 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. Yn 1847, the
Yn 1934, Charles Arthur “Bachgen Pretty” Daeth Floyd â'i yrfa droseddol i ben yn Nwyrain Lerpwl, Cae yd Ohio ar ôl saethu allan gydag asiantau FBI a swyddogion gorfodi'r gyfraith lleol. Fodd bynnag,, ym mis Rhagfyr 1925, rhif y carcharor ydoedd 29078 yn y Missouri Penitentiary. Roedd Floyd, 21 oed, newydd ei gael yn euog o ladrata o brif swyddfa Cwmni Bwyd a Pobi Kroeger
Ar Hydref 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, which killed
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
Ar Ragfyr 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office