Gotch Wanted Hack in St. Louis

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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” katika St. Louis during the 1904 Dunia Fair. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,

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Charlie Chan katika hazina Island (1939)

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Charlie Chan katika hazina Island (1939) ni ya tatu ishirini-Century Fox filamu nyota Sidney TOLER kama Charlie Chan. Inspekta Chan na Jimmy Chan, alicheza na Victor Sen Yung, wanasafiri kwa ndege hadi Maonyesho ya Ulimwengu ya San Francisco katika 1939 kama filamu inafungua. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. Pia kwenye ndege ni rafiki wa Charlie Paul Essex, played

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Cracksmen Caught at Eugene Field House

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Siku ya Jumamosi, Machi 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. Louis’ 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 and the 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. Hata hivyo, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt alichukua Katibu wake wa Vita na Gavana wa zamani wa Phillipines

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The Way to Live in Health and Strength

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For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (affiliate kiungo) 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 years until losing his

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Amateur Sleuth Catches Dynamitards

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Sunday morning, Agosti 12, 1900, St. 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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William Muldoon na afya yake Farm

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William Muldoon, zamani upelelezi New York City, alishinda michuano ya Wrestling World Greco Kirumi kwa kuwashinda Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon akatawala miaka kumi kabla ya kustaafu kama bingwa. Baada ya kustaafu, alianza kufanya kuishi kama mkufunzi binafsi. 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, Julai 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, who

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