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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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    Lou Kretlow (1921-2007)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1950, 1953.

    Don Larsen (1929-2020)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.

    Dick Littlefield (1926-1997)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1952-1953 and the Cardinals 1956.

    Bob Turley (1930-2013)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1951-1953.

    Billy Hunter
    b. 1928
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.
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    Read Romance Magazines While Children Cried 1924

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1719...post-dispatch/



    1957 Girl Thrown From Rented Horse Gets $1200

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8115...ze-owner-name/
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    Neil Berry (1922-2016)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.

    Mike Blyzka (1928-2004)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.

    Johnny Groth
    b. 1926
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.

    Bobo Holloman (1923-1987)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.

    Frank Kellert (1924-1976)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1953.
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    Tink Riviere (1899-1965)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1921.

    Herb Hunter (1895-1970)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1921.

    Charlie Niebergall (1899-1982)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1921-1924.

    Lew McCarty (1888-1930)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1920-1921.

    Mike Kircher (1897-1972)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1919-1921.
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    A Tumble, A Rat, A Fire Hurt 3 Children 1946

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6378...tar-and-times/



    Worker Crushed By Girder 1937

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3738...eneath-girder/
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    Howie Jones (1897-1972)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1921.

    Hal Janvrin (1892-1962)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1919-1921.

    Walt Irwin (1897-1976)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1921.

    George Gilham (1899-1937)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1920-1921.

    Jack Fournier (1889-1973)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1920-1922.
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    Cleaning Curtains With Gas Started Fire 1904

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3414...lobe-democrat/



    Bartender Kills Woman Employer With Hammer 1935

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1671...post-dispatch/
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    St. Louis Car Museum

    https://www.stlouiscarmuseum.com/



    National Museum Of Transportation

    https://tnmot.org/
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    The Ravager 1972 X-Rated Movie Ad Olympic Drive-In

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3034...in-and-scream/



    1969 Eye Of The Cat Movie Ad

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1437...post-dispatch/
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    Women Spectators Scream In Court During Murder Trial 1914

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2752...post-dispatch/



    She Would Wear Red If Husband Died 1906

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3113...post-dispatch/
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