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Vào ngày 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Vào ngày 20, 1916, Ad Santel, một "gái điếm" nổi tiếng hoặc đô vật phục tùng có tay nghề cao, met Taro
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Tom Allen sinh ra ở Birmingham, England but fought some of his most famous fights in America. Trong 1867, Allen moved to St. Louis, the largest city west of the Mississippi. Allen never left and would use St. Louis as his home base to train for prizefights. Allen fought mostly in bare knuckle prizefights as American boxing would not be
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Often written as Edward but pronounced like putting together aid and ward, Eduard was as unique as his name. I struggled with writing much about him because the stories I heard about him
Khi nói đến chính trị máy và tổ chức tội phạm, Kansas City đã luôn luôn tỏa sáng St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City cũng là nơi có nhiều vụ nổ súng xã hội đen cao cấp. St. Louis’ lãnh đạo tổ chức tội phạm cuối cùng đã bị bắt vì chơi bài. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Tháng Tư 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was employed as a mechanic at
Tuần trước, Tôi đang tìm bản sao cuốn Ivanhoe của Ngài Walter Scott từ thư viện cũ của ông tôi. Ông nội Gilbert P. Ellis có một thư viện mà anh ấy đã tặng tôi vào đầu những năm 1990. These books and his desk are treasures that will stay with me until the day I die. As a kid, Tôi đã từng ngồi trong chỗ của anh ấy
Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Louis lịch sử Cảnh sát, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French
At our fantasy football draft this year, one of the other owners asked me who I thought was the best mixed martial artist of all time. I told him that based on skill, the greatest mixed martial artist of all time was Jon “Bones” Jones. Tuy nhiên, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, Wrestling vô địch thế giới Hy Lạp-La Mã và người ủng hộ văn hóa vật lý, đến Los Angeles vào thứ ba, Tháng Tư 15, 1884 đối mặt với những đô vật địa phương Fred Bauer. Trận đấu đã diễn ra tại Hội trường Turnvereine địa phương ở Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Vào ngày 30, 1871, a large crowd of men boarded ten rail cars on the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad as it stopped on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The train continued on to Montgomery Station near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where the crowd left the rain and made their way into the woods. Such an odd procession
On the morning of Saturday, Tháng Tư 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Broadway. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. The time