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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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    Mike Dimmel
    b. 1954
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1979.

    Tom Grieve
    b. 1948
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1979.

    Terry Kennedy
    b. 1956
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1978-1980.

    Silvio Martinez
    b. 1955
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1978-1981.

    Will McEnaney
    b. 1952
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1979.
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    Red Corriden (1887-1959)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1910.

    Art Griggs (1883-1938)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1909-1910.

    Marc Hall (1887-1915)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1910.

    Ed Kinsella (1880-1976)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1910.

    Ray Jansen (1889-1934)
    b. St. Louis
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1910.
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    Dwayne Anderson
    b. 1961
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1987.

    Terrence Anthony
    b. 1965
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1987.

    Robert Awalt
    b. 1964
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1987.

    Joe Bock
    b. 1959
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1987.

    Charles Baker
    b. 1957
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1980-1987.
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    Disco Dancing Giraffe At Jamestown Mall 1980

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2096...post-dispatch/



    Phil Donahue Tapes Show In St. Louis 1979

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4888...tapes-show-in/
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    Christmas Ham Starts Fire 2020

    https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/lo...7-904db2f4e114


    1907 Life Insurance On Browns And Cardinals

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4474...owns-baseball/
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    Ron Bohm
    b. 1964
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1987.

    Tony Buford
    b. St. Louis 1964
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1987.

    Anthony Burke
    b. 1964
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1987.

    Victor Burnett
    b. 1962
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1987.

    Carl Carter
    b. 1964
    Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1986-1987.
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    Willard Schmidt (1928-2007)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1952-1957.

    Red Munger (1918-1996)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1943-1952.

    Bill Werle (1920-2020)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1952.

    Dick Sisler (1920-1998)
    b. St. Louis
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1946-1947, 1952-1953.

    Ferrell Anderson (1918-1978)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1953.
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