קאַמבאַט ספּאָרט היסטאריקער און מאַרשאַל קינסטלער
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 יאָרן, 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 “כאַק” אין סט. Louis during the 1904 וועלט ס פער. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. לוי, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
קייט טשאָפּין, טאָכטער פון אַ באַוווסט פראנצויזיש משפּחה און אין דער צייַט היגע מחבר, קאַלאַפּסט אין די סט. לוי 1904 וועלט ס פער אויף אויגוסט 20, 1904. מאַדאַם טשאָפּין איז געווען בלויז 54 יאר אַלט און געליטן אַ מאַרך כעמראַדזש אָדער אַנעוריסם. זי איז געשטארבן אין איר היים אויף מקפערסאָן אַווענוע אויף אויגוסט 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
אויף אויגוסט 17, 1891, סט. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. אין 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. לוי. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. אין 1847, די
אָליווער לעאָנאַרד קירק האט די דיסטינגקשאַן פון זייַענדיק דער בלויז אָלימפּיק באָקסער צו געווינען אַ גאָלד מעדאַל אין צוויי באַזונדער וואָג קלאסן אין דער זעלביקער אָלימפּיק גאַמעס. אָליווער קירק פארענדיקט דעם פיט אין זיין כאָומטאַון אָלימפּיקס אין 1904. סט. לוי כאָוסטיד די דריט אָלימפּיאַד בעשאַס די 1904 וועלט ס פער עקספּאַזישאַן. Like the Paris Games four years before, סט. Louis gave
אויף סעפטעמבער 15, 1919, סט. 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. פֿאַר יאָרן, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
אויף מיטוואך, נאָוועמבער 26, 1902, 110 couples arrived at the St. Louis Marriage License Bureau to be officially married on Thanksgiving. די 110 couples broke the previous record set in 1901. This record would also only stand for one year until 1903. Beginning at 9 אַ.ם. and continuing until 5 פּיעם, 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. אָבער, 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. אָבער, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
ווען עס קומט צו מאַשין פּאָליטיק און אָרגאַניזירט פאַרברעכן, קאַנסאַס סיטי האט שטענדיק אָוטשאָנע סט. לוי. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. קאַנסאַס סיטי איז אויך היים צו עטלעכע גדולים פּראָפיל גאַנגלאַנד שוטינגז. סט. לוי’ לעצטע אָרגאַניזירט פאַרברעכן פירער איז ערעסטיד פֿאַר פּלייינג קאַרדס. We did have a Democratic party political machine around