Gotch Wanted Hack in St. Луіс

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Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Hack” ў Санкт-. Louis during the 1904 Сусветная выстава. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Луіс, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,

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Чарлі Чан ў Востраў скарбаў (1939)

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Чарлі Чан ў Востраў скарбаў (1939) з'яўляецца трэцім дваццатага стагоддзе Фокс фільм з удзелам Сідні TOLER як Чарлі Чана. Inspector Chan and Jimmy Chan, гуляў Віктар верасня Юнг, are flying to the San Francisco World Exposition in 1939 as the film opens. Цярністы шлях робіць Джымі вельмі нерваваўся. Also on the flight is Charlie’s friend Paul Essex, played

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Cracksmen Caught at Eugene Field House

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У суботу, Сакавік 12, 1904, Вуліца. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Луіс’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Моран і дэтэктывы

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Разбойнік Дапамагае Злавіць забойцу

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H. H. Холмс быў першы вядомы серыйны забойца Амерыкі ў сучасным значэнні слова. Холмс працуе “Забойства замак”, ў горадзе Чыкага падчас 1893 Чыкага свету кірмаш. Холмс, у канчатковым рахунку можа быць асуджаны за шаснаццаць забойстваў, але, магчыма, было забіта больш за 100 людзі ў час яго эксплуатацыі гасцініцы. What is less well known is that St.

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Theodore Roosevelt Wins 6 States in 1912

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After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Аднак, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Рузвельт выбраў свайго ваеннага міністра і былога губернатара Філіпін

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The Way to Live in Health and Strength

Джордж-Hackenschmidt касцюм

For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (affiliate link) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 гадоў да страты свайго

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Amateur Sleuth Catches Dynamitards

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Sunday morning, Жнівень 12, 1900, Вуліца. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet

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Union President Stabbed In 1900 Забастоўка

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In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 Вуліца. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by

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Уільям Малдун і яго здароўе Farm

Уільям-Малдун

Уільям Малдун, Былы Нью-Ёрка дэтэктыў, выйграў World грэка-рымскай барацьбе Чэмпіянат, перамогшы Тібо Bauer. Малдун валадарыў дзесяць гадоў да выхаду на пенсію як чэмпіён. Пасля сыходу на пенсію, he began to make a living as a personal trainer. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

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On Monday evening, Ліпеня 16, 1917, Вуліца. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, хто

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