Streetcar Strike Claims First Victim

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Na quarta-feira, Maio 9, 1900, o segundo dia de St. Louis Streetcar greve, uma bala perdida matou Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, um veterano da Guerra Hispano-Americana, estava assistindo a um comício greve na esquina da Finney e N. Taylor Avenue. Durante o comício, 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 “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Uncle Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Sotavento” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee teve o desafio de criar seu filho Gilbert, de dois anos, como solteiro

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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 Departamento de Polícia Metropolitana. 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. Em janeiro de

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Wrestling at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis

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Na sexta-feira, Outubro 14, and Saturday, Outubro 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. O 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. One of the mechanisms governments used to collect fees for road

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