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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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    Boom-Boom Beck (1904-1987)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1924-1928.

    Otis Brannan (1899-1967)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1928-1929.

    Ike Danning (1905-1983)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1928.

    Frank O'Rourke (1891-1986)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1927-1931.

    Wally Schang (1889-1965)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1926-1929.
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    Thieves Walk Past Dead Man To Ransack His House 2021.

    https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/th...from-his-home/



    Kane & Wilson Escaped Fugitives 1968

    https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/
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    Fielder Jones (1871-1934)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Terriers 1914-1915.

    Ward Miller (1884-1958)
    Played baseball for the Terriers 1914-1915 and the Browns 1916-1917.

    LaRue Kirby (1889-1961)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Terriers 1915.

    Joe Mathes (1891-1978)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Terriers 1914.

    John Misse (1885-1970)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Terriers 1914.
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    Cardinals And Blues Welcomes Rams 1995

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4425...lues-welcomes/



    Hacienda Restaurant

    https://www.haciendastl.com/
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    Fred Kommers (1886-1943)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Terriers 1914.

    Mike Simon (1883-1963)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Terriers 1914.

    Harry Chapman (1885-1918)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Terriers 1914-1915 and the St. Louis Browns 1916.

    Babe Borton (1888-1954)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Terriers 1915 and the St. Louis Browns 1916.

    Pete Compton (1889-1978)
    Played baseball for the St. Louis Browns 1911-1913 and the St. Louis Terriers 1915
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    The Beatles Perform In The Rain 1966

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



    M*A*S*H Opens In St. Louis 3-20-1970

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6700...n-stl-3201970/
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    Fate Echols (1939-2002)
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1962-1963.

    Joe Childress (1933-1986)
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1960-1965.

    Bob Paremore (1939-2004)
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1963-1964.

    Buddy Humphrey (1935-1988)
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1963-1965.

    John Symank (1935-2002)
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1963.
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    Woman Pleads Guilty Of Aiding Jail Escape 1980

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2261...post-dispatch/



    Tampered With Witness 1947

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3386...eves-tried-to/
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    House Of Hoo Hoo Up In Smoke 1904 World's Fair

    https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040...-txlN--------1



    Sibling Runs Into Burning House To Get Brother's Ashes 2021

    https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/lo...0-b06b6471f155
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