Man Kills Middleweight King

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After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 سال, 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. لوئیس

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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 “مزدور” در خیابان. Louis during the 1904 نمایشگاه جهانی. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. لوئیس, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,

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Kate Chopin Collapses at World’s Fair

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کیت شوپن, دختر یک خانواده سرشناس فرانسوی و در زمان نویسنده های محلی, سقوط در خیابان. لوئیس 1904 نمایشگاه جهانی در اوت 20, 1904. مادام شوپن تنها 54 ساله و دچار خونریزی مغزی یا آنوریسم. او در خانه اش در خیابان مک فرسون در ماه اوت کشته شده 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.

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Archbishop Kenrick Celebrates 50 سال

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در آگوست 17, 1891, خیابان. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. <طول bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1473" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" قرمز = "255" سبز = "255" آبی = "255" آلفا = " 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. لوئیس. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. <طول bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1473" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" قرمز = "255" سبز = "255" آبی = "255" آلفا = " 1847, the

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الیور کرک و 1904 خیابان. بازی های المپیک لوئیس

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Oliver Leonard Kirk has the distinction of being the only Olympic boxer to win a gold medal in two separate weight classes in the same Olympic Games. Oliver Kirk accomplished this feat at his hometown Olympics in 1904. خیابان. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, خیابان. Louis gave

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Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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در سپتامبر 15, 1919, خیابان. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. برای سال, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate

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110 Couples Wed on Thanksgiving 1902

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روز چهارشنبه, نوامبر 26, 1902, 110 couples arrived at the St. Louis Marriage License Bureau to be officially married on Thanksgiving. The 110 couples broke the previous record set in 1901. This record would also only stand for one year until 1903. Beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until 5 بعد از ظهر, Recorder Hahn issued license after license as three ministers

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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. <طول bbox_x = "543" bbox_y = "1494" bbox_w = "56" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" قرمز = "255" سبز = "255" آبی = "255" آلفا = ", 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. <طول bbox_x = "543" bbox_y = "1494" bbox_w = "56" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" قرمز = "255" سبز = "255" آبی = "255" آلفا = ", 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 and the St. Louis Machine

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When it comes to machine politics and organized crime, Kansas City has always outshone St. لوئیس. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City was also home to several high-profile gangland shootings. خیابان. لوئیس’ last organized crime leader was arrested for playing cards. We did have a Democratic party political machine around

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