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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 edisyon an
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Sepandan, 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
Sou Nwèl lannwit 1902, de ti vil, ti tan, holdup mesye yo te soufle louvri sekirite a nan Inyon an, Missouri Bank. Apre menase kèk sitwayen, yo te ale ak plis pase $15,000. Mesye yo te relativman an sekirite pou kèk mwa jiskaske Ajans Detectif Pinkerton te rele. Pinkertons yo te gen yon ajans nan tout peyi a, ki te bagay ki pi pre Etazini an
Around 10 mwen menm Jedi, Avril 10, 1919, senk gason ame ki pete nan Baden Bank la. Bandi yo te konfwonte M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. Yo awondi kat lòt anplwaye yo menm jan Muntzel te mennen gwoup la nan vout la. Vòlè yo te mete bannan ki gen koulè pal pou kache karakteristik yo. Pandan ke de nan senk mesye yo
Sou Out 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. Nan 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. Nan 1847, nan
Nan 1934, Charles Arthur “Bel gason” Floyd te fini karyè kriminèl li nan yon East Liverpool, Ohio mayi jaden apre yon tire soti ak ajan FBI ak ofisye lokal ki fè respekte lalwa. Sepandan, nan mwa desanm 1925, li te nimewo prizonye 29078 nan Penitansye Missouri a. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Sou Oktòb 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, ki touye
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
Sou Desanm 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