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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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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St. Francis de Sales Dedicated in 1908

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Sur Novembre 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 children. Le St. L'archidiocèse Saint-Louis a consacré l'église

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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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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. Les combats professionnels au XIXe siècle jouissaient d'une mauvaise réputation en dehors du monde.

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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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George Baptiste Dies

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Sur Décembre 1, 1938 à 5:15 h, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 ans. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home

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Murder at 2912 Washington

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Buildings are just piles of boards and bricks without the stories that are attached to them. During November 1912, St. Louis Police Officer Arthur Huddleston was killed by paroled murderer Albert Whitefield. Whitefield had surprised his common-law wife, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for

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