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. Januarja

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Gospod. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

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

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Officer Fatally Wounded Nabbing Killer

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Novembra 16, 1877, St. Louis Policist John S. White in njegov partner policist Heffernan sta se odzvala na prijavo iskanega moškega, ki je poskušal zastaviti ukradeno blago v zastavljalnici Wright's. Človek kasneje ugotovljeno, Frank Rande vpisana Wrighta zastavljalnica na približno 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan

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Rokoborba na 1904 Poletne olimpijske igre v St. Louis

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V petek, Oktober 14, and Saturday, Oktober 15, 1904, 42 wrestlers in 7 weight classes met in the first Olympic Games contested in the freestyle wrestling method. Prior Olympic Games were contested in the Greco-Roman style of wrestling. The 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s 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. Eden od mehanizmov, ki so ga vlade uporabljale za pobiranje cestnin

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Oliver Kirk in 1904 St. Louis olimpijske igre

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Oliver Leonard Kirk ima razliko, da so le olimpijski boksar osvojiti zlato medaljo v dveh ločenih razredov teže na istih olimpijskih igrah. Oliver Kirk doseči ta podvig na svojem domačem kraju olimpijskih igrah v 1904. St. Louis gostil že tretji olimpijadi v 1904 Svetovni sejem 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. Vendar, doctors diagnosed pneumonia. McGovern went from walking and talking to unresponsive in just one or two days. McGovern never recovered.

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