Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
On Wednesday, Mai 9, 1900, the second day of St. Louis Streetcar Strike, a stray bullet killed Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, a Spanish-American War veteran, was watching a strike rally at the corner of Finney and N. Taylor Avenue. During the rally, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, teine pangaröövel kaasatud liidu, MO pangaröövi detsember 26, 1902, üritas põgeneda St. Louis vangi jaanuaris 1904. Lisaks koostööd teiste vangide tegemise auk seina vangi, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
On September 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. St. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
Julius “Onu Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO märtsil 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Onu 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 had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single
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. On jaanuar
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.
On November 16, 1877, St. Louis Police Officer 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. The man later identified as Frank Rande entered Wright’s Pawnshop at about 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
Reedel, Oktoober 14, ja laupäeval, Oktoober 15, 1904, 42 maadlejate 7 kaalukategooriate kohtusid esimest olümpiamängude vaidlustada vabamaadluse meetod. Enne olümpiamänge vaidlustas kreeka-rooma stiilis maadlus. The 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Kate Chopin, tütar tuntud prantsuse pere ja ajal kohaliku autor, varises St. Louis 1904 World Fair augustil 20, 1904. Madame Chopin oli ainult 54 Sina ja kandis aju verejooks või aneurüsm. Ta suri oma kodus edasi McPherson Avenue augustil 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
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. Üks mehhanismidest, mida valitsused kasutasid maanteede eest tasu kogumiseks