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 Metropolitan Police Department. 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. Janvārī

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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

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Jūlijā 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Kustība “B” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation atrod 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, plāno

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Officer Fatally Wounded Nabbing Killer

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Novembrī 16, 1877, St. Louis policijas darbinieks John S. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. Vēlāk identificēts kā Frank Rande cilvēks iegāja Wright Lombards apmēram 9:30 a.m. Wright nosūtīja viens no viņa palīgiem policijai. As Officer White and Heffernan

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Wrestling at 1904 Vasaras Olimpiskās spēles St. Louis

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Piektdien, Oktobris 14, un sestdienās, Oktobris 15, 1904, 42 cīkstoņi in 7 svara kategorijas tikās pirmajās Olimpiskajās spēlēs apstrīdēto frīstaila cīņas metode. Iepriekšēji Olimpiskās spēles tika apstrīdēts grieķu-romiešu stilā cīkstēšanās. The 1904 Vasaras Olimpiskās spēles notika sadarbībā ar 1904 Pasaules 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. Viens no mehānismiem, ko valdības izmantoja, lai iekasētu nodevas par ceļiem

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Oliver Kirk un 1904 St. Louis Olimpiskās spēles

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Oliver Leonard Kirk ir atšķirība, ka tikai Olympic bokseris uzvarēt zelta medaļu divām atsevišķām svara kategorijām tajās pašās olimpiskajās spēlēs. Oliver Kirk paveikt šo varoņdarbu savā dzimtajā pilsētā olimpiskajām spēlēm 1904. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. 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. Tomēr, doctors diagnosed pneumonia. McGovern went from walking and talking to unresponsive in just one or two days. McGovern never recovered.

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