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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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	Posted 08-27-2021 at 05:50 AM by aliasfinn

	Bruce Affleck b. 1954 Played hockey for the Blues 1974-1979. Mitch Babin b. 1954 Played hockey for the Blues 1975-1976. Bruce Cowick b. 1951 Played hockey for the Blues 1975-1976. Ted Irvine b. 1944 Played hockey for the Blues 1975-1977. Bert Wilson (1949-1992) Played hockey for the Blues 1975-1976.
	Posted 08-27-2021 at 05:55 AM by aliasfinn

	Kiel Auditorium 1976 Advertisement https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6982...post-dispatch/ The Ambassador Theatre 1974 Advertisement https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3578...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-27-2021 at 05:57 AM by aliasfinn

	Bob Weiland (1905-1988) Played baseball for the Browns 1935 and the Cardinals 1937-1940. Lon Warneke (1909-1976) Played baseball for the Cardinals 1937-1942. Jack Russell (1905-1990) Played baseball for the Cardinals 1940. Newt Kimball (1915-2001) Played baseball for the Cardinals 1940. Carden Gillenwater (1917-2000) Played baseball for the Cardinals 1940.
	Posted 08-27-2021 at 06:02 AM by aliasfinn

	Man Arrested For Beating A Woman 1987 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5598...post-dispatch/ 1992 Police Reports https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1186...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-27-2021 at 06:04 AM by aliasfinn

	The New Normandy Theatre Opening 1937 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4387...eatre-opening/ The Little Theater 1933 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9622943/st-l louis-post-dispatch-page-54/
	Posted 08-27-2021 at 06:09 AM by aliasfinn

	Choir Boy Drowns In River 1923 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4421...post-dispatch/ Man Drowned Near Chain Of Rocks 1947 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1015...post-dispatch/
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	Magic Lantern Cinema 1969 Advertisement https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4479...post-dispatch/ Tivoli Theatre in St. Louis, MO - Cinema Treasures Spencer Tracy In Edison The Man 1940 Advertisement https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5203...post-dispatch/
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	Cop Accused Of Beating 1977 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2304...post-dispatch/ Charged With Receiving Money From Prostitute 1977 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5654...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-27-2021 at 02:46 PM by aliasfinn

	Retarded Youth Killed Father 1957 https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/ Boy's Father Lunges Against Knife 1952 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1000...atch-st-louis/
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	Posted 08-28-2021 at 05:24 AM by aliasfinn

	Grandview Cinema Advertisement 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7603...post-dispatch/ Thunderball Advertisement 1965 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1174...-sunset-hills/
	Posted 08-28-2021 at 05:28 AM by aliasfinn

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	Posted 08-28-2021 at 05:41 AM by aliasfinn

	Marv Cook b. 1966 Played for the St. Louis Rams 1995. Torin Dorn b. 1968 Played for the St. Louis Rams 1995-1996. Troy Dayton b. 1970 Played for the St. Louis Rams 1995, 1996. Cedric Figaro b. 1966 Played for the St. Louis Rams 1995-1996. Wayne Gandy b. 1971 Played for the St. Louis Rams 1995-1998.
	Posted 08-28-2021 at 05:45 AM by aliasfinn

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	Posted 08-28-2021 at 05:49 AM by aliasfinn

	Chidi Ahanotu b. 1970 Played for the St. Louis Rams 2001. Aveion Cason b. 1979 Played for the St. Louis Rams 2001, 2004-2005. Jerametrius Butler b. 1978 Played for the St. Louis Rams 2001-2006. Tyoka Jackson b. 1971 Played for the St. Louis Rams 2001-2005. Tommy Polley b. 1978 Played for the St. Louis Rams 2001-2004.
	Posted 08-28-2021 at 05:57 AM by aliasfinn

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