Man Kills Middleweight King

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After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 il, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at

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

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Oliver Kirk və 1904 St. Louis Olympics

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Oliver Leonard Kirk eyni Olimpiya Oyunlarında iki ayrı çəkilərdə qızıl medal qazanmaq üçün yalnız Olimpiya boksçu olma xüsusiyyətini daşıyır. Oliver Kirk məmləkəti Olimpiadaları bu feat həyata 1904. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave

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Ned O’Baldwin Shot

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In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Lakin, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professional fighting in the 19th Century enjoyed a poor reputation outside of

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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. Lakin, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines

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Boss Butler və St. Louis Machine

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Bu maşın siyasət və mütəşəkkil cinayətkarlığa gəldikdə, Kansas City həmişə St Outshone edib. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City bir neçə yüksək profilli gangland çəkilişləri ev idi. St. Louis’ Son mütəşəkkil cinayət təşkilatı lideri kartları üçün həbs edilib. We did have a Democratic party political machine around

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