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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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    Jack Bliss (1882-1968)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1908-1912.

    Fred Gaiser (1885-1918)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1908.

    Ed Karger (1883-1957)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1906-1908.

    Irv Higginbotham (1882-1959)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1906-1909.

    Billy Gilbert (1876-1927)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1908-1909.
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    Josh Hancock (1978-2007)
    Pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals

    https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2854743



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hancock
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    St. Louis Slayer Dies In Gas Vault 1940

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4198...t-and-chester/



    Dying Man Accuses Woman Of Stabbing Him 1944

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4099...dridge-murder/
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    Goldfinger 1964 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6225...e-loews-state/



    Angela Cartwright In Butterflies Are Free 1975

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4491...post-dispatch/
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    Ed Burns (1887-1942)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1912.

    Frank Gilhooley (1892-1959)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1911-1912.

    Arnold Hauser (1888-1966)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1910-1913.

    John Kelleher (1893-1960)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1912.

    Lou Lowdermilk (1887-1975)
    Played for the St. Louis Cardinals 1911-1912.
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    Billy Jack 1971 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1223...-action-billy/



    Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 1958 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7311...pens-at-loews/
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    Woman's Killer Questioned In Another Murder 1946

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1286...abornst-louis/


    Homicide Verdict For Bus Driver In Fatal Accident 1949

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7645...post-dispatch/
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    Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis At The Kiel 1954

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7780...lewis-at-kiel/



    Fast Times At Ridgemont High 1982 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6075...high-opens-in/
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    The Bridge On The River Kwai 1958 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7308...kwai-opens-at/



    Tarzan Goes To India 1962 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4532...post-dispatch/
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    Verdict Of Homicide In Auto Collision 1927

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3812...post-dispatch/



    Murder Suspect Gets Bond By Police Aid 1926

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1736...post-dispatch/
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    Son-In-Law Provoked Shooting 1900

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2278...and-killed-st/



    Millionaire A. Dean Cooper's Murder 1902

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1132...ve-for-murder/
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    Saturday Night Fever 1977 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6522...-opens-in-stl/



    Doctor Zhivago 1966 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7199...he-ambassador/
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    Mummies Of The World Exhibition St. Louis Science Center

    https://www.slsc.org/exhibits-attrac...he-exhibition/



    The Mummy Mask Of Ka-Nefer-Nefer St. Louis Art Museum

    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cu...st-louis-68953
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    Grocer Finds 300 Tarantulas, Calls Police 1929

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3312...re-tarantulas/



    Marlin Perkins Bitten By Viper 1928

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5330...t-by-venemous/


    Marlin Perkins Bitten By Snake Again 1952

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5340...y-snake-again/
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    Jack Roche (1890-1983)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1914-1917.

    Frank Snyder (1894-1962)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1912-1919, 1927.

    Lee Meadows (1894-1963)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1915-1919.

    Fred Lamlein (1887-1970)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1915.

    Harry Glenn (1890-1918)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1915.
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