Gotch Wanted Hack in St. Ludovicus

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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” in S.. Louis during the 1904 Mauris Pulchra. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Ludovicus, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,

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Cracksmen Caught at Eugene Field House

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Die Saturni, Itinera 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Ludovicus’ 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. Moran et detectives

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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. Autem, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt suum secretarium Belli sustulit et quondam gubernator Phillipinorum

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Valetudinem habitare in via

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For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Valetudinem habitare in via (affiliate link) Georgius 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 donec amissis annis eius

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Union President Stabbed In 1900 Percutite eum,

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In una eorum consensuum alienis historiae, in Praesidem Unionis Streetcar Sherman C. Confossus by Patterson MACHINATOR Edouardum nominavit, ob unionem post LASCIVIBUNDUS saloon dissensio. Sequeretur complurisque adversarios in témpore 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Percute esset, diligeretis utique et vidistis eum miserunt in comitatu de oppidum, Patterson is stabbed by

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

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On Monday evening, July 16, 1917, St. 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, qui,

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