George Baptiste Dies

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Desember 1, 1938 på 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 år. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home

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Drap kl 2912 Washington

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Bygninger er bare hauger av plater og murstein uten historiene som er festet til dem. During November 1912, St. Louis politibetjent Arthur Huddleston ble drept av den prøveløslatte morderen Albert Whitefield. Whitefield hadde overrasket sin samboer, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for

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Counter-Espionage (1942)

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Columbia Pictures’ Lone Wolf series, starring Warren Williams as Michael Lanyard, is one of my favorite “B” film serie. Williams played the debonair jewel thief, who somehow always ends up helping the police solve a series of crimes. Counter-Espionage (1942) begins with Lanyard stealing top secret plans from Sir Stafford Hart’s safe. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Stephens rushes to the scene

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Ad Santel Brings The Pain

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Ad Santel gained his reputation as a dangerous catch wrestler from his frequent bouts with judoka from Japan during the 1910s and a story from the second George Hackenschmidt training camp for the Frank Gotch rematch. According to legend, Frank Gotch paid Santel, a skilled submission wrestler, $5,000.00 to injure Hackenschmidt’s knee in training. Mens denne historien kan eller kan

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Irish Giant Bashes Wormald

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Oktober 29, 1868, “Irish Giant” Ned O’Baldwin and English prizefighter Joe Wormald met in a bare knuckle prize-fight outside of Boston in Lynnville, Massachusetts. O’Baldwin stood 6’06” tall and weighed around 220 pounds. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. Fans av begge mennene ankom

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