Αναμνήσεις του Henry Moses Dufur

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Ο Henry Moses Dufur ήταν ο παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής πάλης βαρέων βαρών με κολάρο και αγκώνα κατά τη δεκαετία του 1870. Με 1855, Ο Dufur αποσύρθηκε από την επαγγελματική πάλη για να ακολουθήσει το επάγγελμά του πλήρους απασχόλησης του ράφτη ρούχων. Ακόμη και κατά τη διάρκεια της καριέρας του στην πάλη, Ο Dufur δούλευε ως ράφτης. Ο Dufur είπε στον ανταποκριτή από το The Boston Globe ότι γεννήθηκε στο Richford, Βερμόντ τον Ιούνιο 5, 1943. Αυτή η ημερομηνία του

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Dan Daly Beats Ed Kelly

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In December 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in

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Tom Allen Fights Bill Davis

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Τον 19ο αιώνα, most states banned bare-knuckled prizefighting and professional gloved boxing. Police often arrested fighter, managers, and promoters to stop prizefighting. A unique aspect of geography turned St. Louis into an ideal fight venue to get around the authorities’s activity to stop professional prizefighting. In the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois, the river’s current created a handful

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Was Lewis or Gotch Better?

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Τον Ιανουάριο του 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Strangler” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so Santel did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.

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Paul Pons, Maker of Wrestling Stars

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Paul Pons was the Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion of France in the 1890s. He won a tournament at the Folies-Bergeres before winning a tournament in Russia in 1898. Αυτές οι νίκες του επέτρεψαν να διεκδικήσει το Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα ελληνορωμαϊκής πάλης. Pons capitalized on this notoriety by opening a gym to train wrestlers and strong men. Pons’ η νίκη ήταν ιδιαίτερα αξιοσημείωτη λόγω

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Pretty Boy Floyd’s St. Louis Robbery

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Σε 1934, Charles ArthurPretty BoyFloyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. Ωστόσο, in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office

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Suspects But No Murderers

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Τον Οκτώβριο του 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, που σκότωσε

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Appointment with Danger (1950)

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I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures released Appointment with Danger (affiliate link) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United

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Detective Desmond Closes Pawn Shop

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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

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Willis Hall Gets 99 Years for Murder

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Τον Δεκέμβριο 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

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