Streetcar Strike Claims First Victim

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Op Woensdag, Mei 9, 1900, die tweede dag van die St. Louis Streetcar Strike, 'n verdwaalde koeël vermoor Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, 'n Spaans-Amerikaanse Oorlog veteraan, was om te kyk 'n staking tydren op die hoek van Finney en N. Taylor Avenue. Gedurende die tydren, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a

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Julius Johannpeter (1875-1961)

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Julius “Oom Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Oom Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee het die uitdaging gehad om haar tweejarige seun Gilbert as 'n enkellopende groot te maak

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Detective Desmond Gets His Men

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Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. Januarie

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Officer Fatally Wounded Nabbing Killer

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Op November 16, 1877, St. Louis Polisie Beampte John S. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. Die man het later geïdentifiseer as Frank Rande aangegaan Wright se pandjieswinkel omstreeks 9:30 voormiddag. Wright het een van sy assistente vir die polisie. As Officer White and Heffernan

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Stoei by die 1904 Olimpiese Spele in St somer. Louis

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Op Vrydag, Oktober 14, and Saturday, Oktober 15, 1904, 42 wrestlers in 7 weight classes met in the first Olympic Games contested in the freestyle wrestling method. Prior Olympic Games were contested in the Greco-Roman style of wrestling. Die 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in

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John Riley Collects Poll Tax

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My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. Een van die meganismes wat regerings gebruik het om gelde vir pad in te vorder

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