Pertaining To St. Louis
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.
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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The Curious Tale Of St. Louis Street Barriers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...treet-barriers
Cops Interrupt Restaurant Robbery 1971
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8390...post-dispatch/Posted 08-07-2021 at 12:07 PM by aliasfinn
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Ted Wheeler
b. 1945
Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1967-1968.
Bob Rowe
b. 1945
Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1967-1975.
Rick Sortun (1942-2015)
Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1964-1969.
Mack Sauls
b. 1945
Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1968-1969.
Dave Meggyesy
b. 1941
Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1963-1969.Posted 08-08-2021 at 05:29 AM by aliasfinn
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Policeman Crushed Against Pole 1917.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2621...tar-and-times/
Joseph Hargate (1870s counterfeiter)
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6926...ounterfeiting/Posted 08-08-2021 at 05:34 AM by aliasfinn
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Won't Say Who Stabbed Him 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1306...post-dispatch/
Died Of His Wounds 1887
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1730...abel-st-louis/Posted 08-08-2021 at 06:43 PM by aliasfinn
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The Great Escape 1963 Esquire Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8125...t-the-esquire/
The Dirty Dozen 1967 Advertisement At The Loews
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7483...-at-the-loews/Posted 08-08-2021 at 06:47 PM by aliasfinn
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16-Year-Old Re-Enacts His Crime 1960
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1754...post-dispatch/
Cab Driver Charged With Trunk Murder 1955
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5992...post-dispatch/Posted 08-09-2021 at 12:18 AM by aliasfinn
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The Towering Inferno 1974 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7790...-opens-in-stl/
Deliverance 1972 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5571...t-the-esquire/Posted 08-09-2021 at 02:17 AM by aliasfinn
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Wiley Dunham (1877-1934)
Played baseball for the 1902 Cardinals.
Alex Pearson (1877-1966)
Played baseball for the 1902 Cardinals.
Art Nichols (1871-1945)
Played baseball for the Cardinals 1901-1903.
Fred Hartman (1865-1938)
Played baseball for the Browns 1897 and the Cardinals 1902.
Mike O'Neill (1877-1959)
Played baseball for the Cardinals 1901-1904.Posted 08-09-2021 at 07:42 AM by aliasfinn
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True Grit 1969 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7381...n-stl-6131969/
Kelly's Heroes 1970 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8147...in-stl-871970/Posted 08-09-2021 at 07:45 AM by aliasfinn
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Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 1969 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6812...-sundance-kid/
Bad News Bears 1976 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5516...-opens-491976/Posted 08-09-2021 at 07:49 AM by aliasfinn
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Struck Her With A Lamp 1902
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3647...post-dispatch/
Stuck A Knife In His Back Because He Wouldn't Give Him Beer Money 1899.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3555...patrick-walsh/Posted 08-09-2021 at 07:53 AM by aliasfinn
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The Wizard Of Oz 1939 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3128...-at-the-loews/
Jaws 1975 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6720...n-stl-6201975/Posted 08-09-2021 at 07:57 AM by aliasfinn
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Keith Aucoin
b. 1978
Played hockey for the Blues 2013-2014.
Carlo Colaiacovo
b. 1983
Played hockey for the Blues 2008-2012, 2013-2014.
Dmitrij Jaskin
b. 1993
Played hockey for the Blues 2012-2018.
Jordan Leopold
b. 1980
Played hockey for the Blues 2012-2015.
Steve Ott
b. 1982
Played hockey for the Blues 2013-2016.Posted 08-09-2021 at 08:05 AM by aliasfinn
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 1968 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7143...ugly-opens-in/
Planet Of The Apes 1968 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7107...t-the-fox-and/Posted 08-09-2021 at 08:08 AM by aliasfinn
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The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8001...-opens-in-stl/
The Sting 1973 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6126...christmas-day/Posted 08-09-2021 at 08:12 AM by aliasfinn
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Woman Fights Man, Swallows Acid 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6056...post-dispatch/
Wounded, He Punches Foe 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2593...hmarch-7-1906/Posted 08-09-2021 at 05:42 PM by aliasfinn
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The Birds' Tippi Hedren came to St. Louis April 4, 2011.
https://www.stltoday.com/entertainme...7a4a78c22.html
National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7167...tion-opens-in/Posted 08-09-2021 at 08:30 PM by aliasfinn
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A 1913 Dynamite Mystery
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3484...post-dispatch/
About Town 1897
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8220...post-dispatch/Posted 08-10-2021 at 05:27 AM by aliasfinn
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Man Protests Freddy Krueger 1989
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2319...post-dispatch/
Halloween At The Airway Drive-In 1962
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4532...post-dispatch/Posted 08-10-2021 at 05:33 AM by aliasfinn
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Soylent Green 1973 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7623...n-stl-4201973/
Rio Bravo 1959 Advertisement
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7389...e-fox-3271959/Posted 08-10-2021 at 05:39 AM by aliasfinn
