Man Kills Middleweight King

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After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 ans, 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 “Entaille” à St. Louis during the 1904 Exposition universelle. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,

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Kate Chopin Collapses at World’s Fair

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Kate Chopin, fille d'une famille française de premier plan et à l'heure de l'écrivain local, effondré à Saint-. Louis 1904 Exposition mondiale sur Août 20, 1904. Mme Chopin seulement 54 ans et souffrait d'une hémorragie cérébrale ou un anévrisme. Elle est morte à son domicile sur l'avenue McPherson sur Août 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.

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Oliver Kirk et l' 1904 St. Louis Jeux olympiques

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Oliver Leonard Kirk a la distinction d'être le seul boxeur olympique à remporter une médaille d'or dans deux catégories de poids différents dans les mêmes Jeux Olympiques. Oliver Kirk a accompli cet exploit à sa ville natale Jeux olympiques de 1904. St. Louis a accueilli la troisième Olympiade au cours de la 1904 Foire Exposition Universelle. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave

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Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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On September 15, 1919, St. 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. Pendant des années,, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate

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110 Wed couple le jour de Thanksgiving 1902

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Le mercredi, Novembre 26, 1902, 110 couples arrived at the St. Louis Marriage License Bureau to be officially married on Thanksgiving. La 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 p.m., 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. Cependant, 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. Cependant, 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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Patron Butler et le St. Louis machine

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Quand il s'agit de machines politique et le crime organisé, Kansas City a toujours éclipsé St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City est également le foyer de plusieurs de grande envergure mafieux fusillades. St. Louis’ dernier chef du crime organisé a été arrêté pour jouer aux cartes. We did have a Democratic party political machine around

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