Hannah McLaughlin Desmond (1879 – 1904)

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Ar Eanáir 7, 1903, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. Mar sin féin, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, Naomh. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an

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An Teach Mór ar Cook Ascaill

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Cionn teach bríce 122-bliain d'aois ar an ardán sráide ag an choirnéal Shráid Whittier agus Cook Ascaill i St. Louis, Missouri. Tógálaithe in airde an 2378 Teach troigh cearnach i 1892. Áirítear ar a ailtireacht uathúil BALCÓIN turret ar an dara hurlár den bhalla oirthuaisceart. Nuair dtús tógtha, 4200 Ní mór Cook bheith ina láithreán mórthaibhseach. Sa lá atá inniu, 4200 Tá Cook

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Ghost of the Old Castle

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Meán Fómhair 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. An Naomh. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South

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Wrestling at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis

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Ar Dé hAoine, Deireadh Fómhair 14, and Saturday, Deireadh Fómhair 15, 1904, 42 wrestlers in 7 weight classes met in the first Olympic Games contested in the freestyle wrestling method. Prior Olympic Games were contested in the Greco-Roman style of wrestling. An 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in

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Kate Chopin Collapses at World’s Fair

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Kate Chopin, iníon de theaghlach feiceálach Fraince agus ag an am údar áitiúil, thit ag an Naomh. Louis 1904 Domhain Aonach Lúnasa 20, 1904. Bhí Madame Chopin amháin 54 bliain d'aois agus d'fhulaing hemorrhage inchinn nó aneurism. Fuair ​​sí bás ar a bhaile ar McPherson Ascaill Lúnasa 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.

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Oliver Kirk agus an 1904 St. Cluichí Oilimpeacha Louis

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Oliver Leonard Kirk Tá an t-idirdhealú a bheith ar an dornálaí Oilimpeacha ach a bhuachan bonn óir i dhá rang meáchan ar leithligh sna Cluichí Oilimpeacha céanna. Oliver Kirk i gcrích an éacht seo ag a bhaile dúchais Cluichí Oilimpeacha i 1904. St. D'óstáil Louis tríú Oilimpiad i rith na 1904 Domhain Aonach Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave

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Would Be Assassin’s St. Louis Roots

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Meán Fómhair 21, 1897, Joseph Bloomfield Jackson attempted to sneak into the White House armed with a loaded revolver. Jackson had boasted of plans to attack a high government official for days. Jackson was arrested before he could carry out his plans to attack President McKinley. Police quickly realized Jackson was mentally disturbed. Chuir siad chuig tearmann i Washington é

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Prelude to 1912 Toghchán Uachtaránachta

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Rinne Theodore Roosevelt cinneadh fateful ar Lá Toghcháin 1904. D'fhógair sé tar éis a bheith tofa chun an Uachtaránacht ina cheart féin tar éis dul suas go dtí an oifig ar an feallmharú William McKinley nach mbeadh sé ar siúl ar feadh téarma eile i 1908. D'fhóin Roosevelt beagnach téarma iomlán sular toghadh mar a bhí assassinated McKinley i mí Mheán Fómhair 1901.

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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 “Hack” i St. Louis during the 1904 Domhain Aonach. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 i Chicago,

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Cracksmen Caught at Eugene Field House

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Ar Dé Sathairn, Márta 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran and the detectives

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