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Pertaining To St. Louis

Posted 02-13-2021 at 07:05 AM by aliasfinn
Updated 01-31-2022 at 05:08 AM by aliasfinn
Interesting Things To Google.



A St. Louis woman, Pearl Curran, claimed to receive poetry from a spirit through a Ouija board.

Clarence Terhune, a St. Louis caddy, stowed away on the German airship Zeppelin.

The bullet that killed Wild Bill Hickok is buried in St. Louis.

Pretty Boy Floyd was sent to the Missouri penitentiary for a $12,000 St. Louis payroll robbery.

John Dillinger attended an automobile show at Municipal Auditorium in St. Louis.

The Reno Gang and their father lived in St. Louis for a couple of years when things got too hot for them in Indiana.

Frank James, Jesse's brother, was cremated in St. Louis.

Outlaw Sam Bass ran away from his Indiana home when he was a teenager and went to St. Louis but didn't stay long because he thought the city was too dangerous.

Doc Holliday practiced dentistry in St. Louis.

Jack The Ripper died in St. Louis.

Billy The Kid's mother ran a boarding house in St. Louis.

The pirate Jean Lafitte lived his last years around St. Louis and is buried across the river in Alton.

The Sundance Kid and Etta Place were spotted by Pinkerton detectives at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Charles Manson went to St. Louis in the 1950s and got a tattoo.

The 1949 exorcism in St. Louis.

Geronimo rode the Ferris wheel at the St. Louis World's Fair.

Serial killer H.H. Holmes was locked up in a St. Louis jail with a Missouri train robber.

John Slack, one of the men involved in the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, moved to St. Louis and opened a casket making company.

Big Jim Kennally, a counterfeiter from St. Louis, came up with a plan to steal Lincoln's body in 1876.

Egan's Rats, St. Louis gangsters, were the main suspects in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

John Wilkes Booth was arrested in St. Louis for making anti-government threats.

Mark Gray, who worked for a St. Louis dry goods firm, attempted to assassinate Edwin Booth during a play in Chicago.

Martin Monti, a St. Louis born pilot, defected to Nazi Germany during the war and worked as a propagandist.
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    Bryce Salvador
    b. 1976
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 2000-2008.

    Mark Rycroft
    b. 1978
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 2001-2006.

    Jame Pollock
    b. 1979
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 2003-2004.

    Scott Mellanby
    b. 1966
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 2000-2004.

    Brent Johnson
    b. 1977
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 1998-2004.
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    MG Club

    https://www.stlouismgclub.com/



    Jaguar Association Of Greater St. Louis

    www.jagstl.com/
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    Ed Bauta
    b. 1935
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1960-1963.

    Don Ferrarese
    b. 1929
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1962.

    Bobby Locke (1934-2020)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1962.

    Gene Oliver (1935-2007)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1959-1963.

    Paul Toth (1935-1999)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1962.
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    Calvin Favron (1957-1999)
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1979-1982.

    Chris Garlich
    b. 1957
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1979.

    Thomas Lott
    b. 1957
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1979.

    Bill Murrell
    b. 1956
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1979.

    Steve Neils
    b. 1951
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1974-1980.
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    Couple Plead Guilty In Tax Case 2004

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5283...post-dispatch/



    3rd Man Charged In Slaying 1992

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1654...post-dispatch/
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    Howie Krist (1916-1989)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1937-1946.

    Joe Medwick (1911-1975)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1932-1940, 1947-1948.

    Pepper Martin (1904-1965)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1928-1944.

    Tom Sunkel (1912-2002)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1937-1939.

    Dick Siebert (1912-1978)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1937-1938.
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    Charles Forrest
    Sneak thief captured in 1901

    https://kenzimmermanjr.com/hotel-sne...tured/?lang=az



    Sprayed Blacks With Red Kool-Aid 1995

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1747...post-dispatch/
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    Builders Unearth Old Brewery

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8063...post-dispatch/



    Man Dies After Ambulance Delayed By Vandal 2021

    https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/lo...6-81092793527f
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    Volunteers Respond To Fire After Fire Departments Refuse 1937

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3549...tar-and-times/



    1930 Kodak Camera Giveaway Ad

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6326...mera-giveaway/
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    Billy McCool (1944-2014)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1965-1970)

    Joe Hague (1944-1994)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1968-1972.

    George Culver
    b. 1943
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1970.

    Ed Crosby
    b. 1949
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1970-1973.

    Nelson Briles (1943-2005)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1965-1970.
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