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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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	1913 Woods Electric Vehicle Co. Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4041...post-dispatch/ 1945 Shell Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9390...tar-and-times/
	Posted 10-10-2021 at 05:15 AM by aliasfinn

	Jordan Walden b. 1987 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2015. Sam Tuivailala b. 1992 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2014-2018. Travis Tartamella b. 1987 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2015. Cody Stanley b. 1988 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2015. Miguel Socolovich b. 1986 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2015-2017.
	Posted 10-10-2021 at 05:21 AM by aliasfinn

	Rescued Cats https://www.stlcats.org/ St. Louis Rocketry Association https://www.stlouisrocketry.com/
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	Tallest Married Couple In St. Louis 1909 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6634...post-dispatch/ Mystery Message To Harry Caray Solved After More Than 50 Years. https://wgntv.com/news/mystery-messa...over-50-years/
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	Captured Bank Robbers 1919 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2553...post-dispatch/ Chic Young, Creator Of Blondie https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6271...post-dispatch/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chic_Young
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	1916 Quaker Cooker Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2478...post-dispatch/ Writer's Groups https://www.stlwritersguild.org/ https://litaroundthelou.com/writers-groups/
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	Genesis Cabrera b. 1996 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2019-2021. Nabil Crismat b. 1994 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2020. Seth Elledge b. 1996 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2020-2021. Jesus Cruz b. 1995 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2020. Junior Fernandez b. 1997 Played baseball for the Cardinals 2019-2021.
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	1930 Gardner Motor Co. Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5625...d-at-the-show/ 1931 Famous Barr Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7504...ack-friday-ad/
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	40 Hours On A Raft 1944 https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/ Marian Green Pilot https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5053...lobe-democrat/
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	1928 Elgin Watches Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3169...tar-and-times/ 1925 May, Stern & Co. Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1017...post-dispatch/
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	Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed And Dracula Has Risen From The Grave 1970 Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9314...post-dispatch/ Creature From The Black Lagoon And Killers From Space 1954 Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3150...post-dispatch/
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	Bob Hope At The Ambassador Theatre 1974 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3578...post-dispatch/ Upcoming Shows May 1979 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4818...post-dispatch/
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	1962 Silver Skates Carnival https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3399...post-dispatch/ 1963 Municipal Opera Ad https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1526...3-carnival-ad/
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