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. Polizia Louis Metropolitan Saila. 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. Urtarrilaren On

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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

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Uztailetik 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Mugimenduan “B” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation-ek Mr. Moto accompanying the Queen of Sheba’s Crown from its discovery in an Egyptian archaeological site to a San Francisco museum. Mr. Moto suspects the arch criminal Metaxess, who authorities believed was dead, asmoa du

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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. Errepideen tasak kobratzeko gobernuek erabiltzen zuten mekanismoetako bat

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Oliver Kirk eta 1904 St. Louis olinpiadak

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Oliver Leonard Kirk du boxeolari olinpiko bakarra izateaz urrezko domina bat irabazteko bi pisu klase desberdinetan Olinpiar Jokoen berean bereizketa du. Oliver Kirk balentria hau lortzen bere jaioterrian Olympics 1904. St. Louis anfitrioi hirugarren Olinpiar zehar 1904 Munduko Azoka Erakusketa. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave

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“Terrible” Terry Dies in Charity Hospital

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On February 22, 1918, former World Bantamweight and Featherweight Boxing Champion “Terrible” Terry McGovern died in New York City’s Kings County Hospital. McGovern checked in a few days earlier with what McGovern thought was a severe upper respiratory infection. Hala ere, doctors diagnosed pneumonia. McGovern went from walking and talking to unresponsive in just one or two days. McGovern never recovered.

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