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Pertaining To St. Louis

Posted 02-13-2021 at 06:05 AM by aliasfinn
Updated 01-31-2022 at 04:08 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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    Beat Wife With Hammer Then Cuts His Throat 1937.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4619...post-dispatch/



    Killed Over A Dime 1938

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    William R Draper Arrested In St. Louis For Libel Against White Buffalo.

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    Dixie Upright (1926-1986)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.

    Virgil Trucks (1917-2013)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.

    Johnny Lipon (1922-1998)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.

    Marlin Stuart (1918-1994)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1952-1953.

    Vern Stephens (1920-1968)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1941-1947.
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    Pride Of The Yankees 1942 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6873...-opens-at-the/



    Groundhog Day 1993 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6970...n-stl-2121993/
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    4 Bodies Linked To Drug Killings 1970

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1232...post-dispatch/



    2 Arrested For Killing At Store 1971

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2726...ling-at-store/
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    Body Heat 1981 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8208...n-stl-9181981/



    Allman Brothers And Cheech & Chong At Kiel March 24, 1972.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7375...eech-chong-at/
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    Larry Willingham
    b. 1948
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1971-1972.

    Ted Provost
    b. 1948
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1971.

    Rick Ogle
    b. 1949
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1971.

    Tom Longo (1942-2015)
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1971.

    George Hoey
    b. 1946
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1971.
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    Gets 25 Years For Murder/Robbery 1972

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4274...post-dispatch/


    Police Investigate Killing 1969

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5177...post-dispatch/
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    The Thief Of Bagdad Channel 2 Listing 1964

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4627...post-dispatch/



    Casino Royale 1967 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3855...post-dispatch/
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    New Arraignment In Murder Case 1969

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3686...post-dispatch/



    Murder Charge In Woman's Death 1970

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1756...post-dispatch/
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    Ham Hyatt (1884-1963)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1915.

    Charlie Boardman (1893-1968)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1915.

    Art Butler (1887-1984)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1914-1916.

    Red Ames (1882-1936)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1915-1919.

    Dick Niehaus (1892-1957)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1913-1915.
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    Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day 1941 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2064...uman-being-dr/



    Star Wars 1977 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3435...opens-5271977/
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    North By Northwest 1959 Advertisement

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    Dances With Wolves 1990 Advertisement

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    Ed Bauta
    b. 1935
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1960-1963.

    Jerry Buchek (1942-2019)
    b. St. Louis
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1961-1966.

    Chris Cannizzaro (1938-2016)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1960-1961.

    Al Cicotte (1929-1982)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1961.

    Julio Gotay (1939-2008)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1960-1962.
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    Anthony Quinn Came To St. Louis 1984

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7429...ba-at-the-fox/



    The Big Mouth 1967 Advertisement

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    Man Dies From Wound He Got While Nursing Wife 1908

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7021...post-dispatch/



    Wounded Man Blames Police "Third Degree" 1907

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7519...dispatchmowou/
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