Amateur Sleuth Catches Dynamitards

трамвай Сент-Луїс

Sunday morning, Серпень 12, 1900, Вулиця. 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 Страйк

трамвай Сент-Луїс

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 Вулиця. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by

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William Muldoon and His Health Farm

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Вільям Малдун, a former New York City detective, won the World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship by defeating Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon reigned for ten years before retiring as champion. After retiring, he began to make a living as a personal trainer. Muldoon trained many wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for

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Green Rank – The Last Beginning Step

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After you earn your Green Rank, you will have completed your first year of training. Congratulations. On average, 75 percent of students who started with you have already quit training. Lucky for you, they will be much better targets for criminals. A humorous anecdote is told about two campers worried about a bear attack. One of the campers tells his

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

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On Monday evening, Липень 16, 1917, Вулиця. 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. Його “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, хто

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Herman Johannpeter (1878 – 1921)

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When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Подветренний” Елліс’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Jules”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Дідусь

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Том Хайер Beats янкі Салліван

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Tom Hyer won the American Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in 1841. Like most prizefighting champions of the Nineteenth Century, he did not fight very often. Hyer normally paid his bills as an enforcer for political parties in New York. Спочатку, Hyer використовували свої таланти для вігів, але хотіли б перейти пристрасті до “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William

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Want to Be Great – Master the Basics

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The secret to success in the martial arts or any area of life is mastering the basics. While this statement sounds intuitive, very few people actually do it. Many practitioners find the basics “boring” and want to move onto more advanced moves. The problem with this approach is emphasizing a 1 percent move over a 99 percent move. Taking Taekwondo

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Вулиця. Louis Officer Killed by Wanted Man

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The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, У виконанні службових обов'язків: Вулиця. Офіцери Луї міліції, які приніс жертву Остаточний Барбара Miksicek, Девід McElreath і майор Стівен Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. З його проділом посередині і великий вуса, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Луїс

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Thank You, Г-н. Рух (1937)

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On Christmas Eve, 1937, the second Mr. Moto film, Thank You, Г-н. Рух (1937) staring Peter Lorre, debuted. International Agent Mr. Moto strives to protect Chinese cultural treasures from international criminals. The Seven Scrolls will reveal the hiding place for the Tomb of Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan’s warriors reportedly buried great treasure with their dead leader. Г-н. Moto’s friend Prince

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