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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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    Satchel Paige (1906-1982)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1951-1953.

    Dick Kryhoski (1925-2007)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1952-1953.

    Johnny Hetki (1922-2019)
    Played for the 1952 St. Louis Browns.

    Earl Harrist (1919-1998)
    Played for the 1952 St. Louis Browns.

    Bob Cain (1924-1997)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1952-1953.
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    17-Year-Old Shot Multiple Times 2021

    https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/17...s-in-st-louis/



    Cab Driver Shot And Killed 1896

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2177...post-dispatch/
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    St. Louisans React To The War Of The Worlds 1938

    https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...d70a70f8c.html



    The Exorcist 1973 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6674...the-brentwood/
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    Driver Who Killed Deputy Dies Of Wound 1923

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3581...g-may-21-1923/



    St. Louis Businessman Dies When Plane Falls 1929

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5565...-stl-dispatch/
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    The "Little Chloroformer" Hanged 1888

    https://www.stltoday.com/news/archiv...0253b93ed.html



    Students Charged In Bombing 1983

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3182...post-dispatch/
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    Willie Belton (1948-1992)
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1973-1974.

    Tom Brahaney
    b. 1951
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1973-1981.

    Dwayne Crump
    b. 1950
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1973-1976.

    Chuck Detwiler
    b. 1947
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1973.

    Clarence Duren
    b. 1950
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1973-1976.
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    Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? 1962 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6695...by-jane-opens/



    Dirty Harry 1971 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7143...t-the-esquire/
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    Airport 1970 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6912...n-stl-5221970/



    Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory 1971 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6753...olate-factory/
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    6 Children Shot In East St. Louis 1986

    https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/29/u...-illinois.html



    Doctor Killed, Son Arrested 1986

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3454...post-dispatch/
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    Sam Silas
    b. 1940
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals football team 1963-1967.

    Ray Ogden
    b. 1942
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals football team 1965-1966.

    Sonny Randle Jr. (1936-2017)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals football team 1960-1966.

    Bill Koman (1934-2019)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals football team 1960-1967.

    Billy Gambrell
    b. 1941
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals football team 1963-1967.
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    Charged In Killing Of Handball Enthusiast 1979

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6291...harged-29-jul/



    Suspect Held In Stabbing Death 1978

    https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/
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