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Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 vjet, 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
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 “Kollë e thatë” në Shën. Louis during the 1904 Panairi Botërore. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 në Çikago,
Kate Chopin, bijë e një familje të shquar francez dhe në kohën autorit lokale, shembur në St. Louis 1904 Panairi Botërore më August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin ishte vetëm 54 vjeç dhe pësoi një hemoragji të trurit apo aneurizëm. Ajo vdiq në shtëpinë e saj në McPherson Avenue më August 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Më gusht 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. Në 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. Në 1847, the
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. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Në shtator 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. Për vite, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Të mërkurën, Nëntor 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 pasdite, Recorder Hahn issued license after license as three ministers
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. Megjithatë, 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
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. Megjithatë, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
Kur është fjala për politikë të makinës dhe krimit të organizuar, Kansas City ka outshone gjithmonë St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City ishte edhe shtëpia e disa të profilit të lartë incidentesh kriminale. St. Louis’ last organized crime leader was arrested for playing cards. We did have a Democratic party political machine around