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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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    Democratic Boss Shot By Man Who Deserted Him 1909.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3476...ot-by-man-who/



    Man Kills Wife And Mother-In-Law 1907.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2040...post-dispatch/
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    Joe DeBerry (1896-1944)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1920-1921.

    Bugs Bennett (1892-1957)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1918,1921.

    Lyman Lamb (1895-1955)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1920-1921.

    Dud Lee (1899-1971)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1920-1921.

    Jim Riley (1895-1969)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1921.
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    3 Stooges And Banana Splits At The Arena 1969.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5954...e-stooges-and/



    Jacks Or Better Ad 1974

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5564...r-better-1974/
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    Ed Marcontell
    b. 1945
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1967.

    Joe Robb (1937-1987)
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1961-1967.

    Philip Spiller
    b. 1945
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1967.

    John McDowell
    b. 1942
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1966.

    Mike Melinkovich
    b. 1942
    Played for the St. Louis football Cardinals 1965-1966.
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    Disc Golf


    St. Louis Disc Golf Club

    https://stldgclub.com/



    Willmore Park

    https://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=6413
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    Fined $10 For Throwing Hatchet At Uncle 1906

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3404...post-dispatch/



    Railway Safe Breaks Conductor's Leg 1906

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6564...shot-st-louis/
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    St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association

    https://www.slrcfa.com/



    Spirits Of St. Louis RC Flying Club Inc.

    https://www.modelaircraft.org/club/s...ying-club-inc/
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    Bill Bayne (1899-1981)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1919-1924.

    Josh Billings (1891-1981)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1919-1923.

    George Boehler (1892-1958)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1920-1921.

    Bernie Boland (1892-1973)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1921.

    Bill Burwell (1895-1973)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1920-1921.
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    Fencing

    St. Louis Fencing Center

    https://www.stlfencingcenter.com/



    St. Louis Fencer's Club

    SLFC Home
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    Pete Falcone
    b. 1953
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1976-1978.

    Butch Metzger
    b. 1952
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1977.

    Bake McBride
    b. 1949
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1973-1977.

    John Tamargo
    b. 1951
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1976-1978.

    Joel Youngblood
    b. 1951
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1977.
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