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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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    3 Killed In Rooming House Fire 1946

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4759...post-dispatch/



    6 Children Die In Fire In Maplewood 1948

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1651...les-eoff-1948/
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    The Dean Martin Show 1969 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1567...post-dispatch/



    Color Programs On Channel 5 December 1962

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1131...post-dispatch/
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    Found Body Floating In River 1879

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5468...-finds-a-body/



    Man With Head Injury Found Lying In Street 1964

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2855...n-the-head-by/
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    1957 TV Show Listings

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7335...post-dispatch/



    Actor Doug McClure was at the Firemen's Championship Rodeo in St. Louis September 5, 1971.
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    Micki Dupont
    b. 1980
    Played hockey for the Blues 2007-2008.

    Mike Glumac
    b. 1980
    Played hockey for the Blues 2005-2008.

    Dan Hinote
    b. 1977
    Played hockey for the Blues 2006-2009.

    D.J. King
    b. 1984
    Played hockey for the Blues 2006-2010.

    Roman Polak
    b. 1986
    Played hockey for the Blues 2006-2014.
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    Lawrence Welk Debuts July 1955 Channel 5

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7652...uts-july-1955/



    1957 Laclede Gas Co. Ad With Bing Crosby

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5827...g-crosby-1957/
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    Fire Bombs Thrown Into The Home Of Clyde X 1967

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6717...post-dispatch/



    Two Burned In Fire At Paint Plant 1965

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1742...rned-in-flash/
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    Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4066...post-dispatch/



    The Lion King 1994 Advertisement

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7460...n-stl-6241994/
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    Safe-Crackers, Muggers And Carjackers 1925

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1201...post-dispatch/



    Used Car Dealer Turning Back Speedometer 1936

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2046...post-dispatch/
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    He Just Wanted To Be Drunk 1897

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2026...post-dispatch/



    Fonzie And Happy Days Glasses At Burger King 1977

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5505...ses-at-burger/
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    Brothers Arrested For Candy Company Robbery 1952

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1316...post-dispatch/



    Car Thief Arrested 1951

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2263...post-dispatch/
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    The City That Forgot About Christmas 1974 Channel 5

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7790...hristmas-1974/



    The Noon Show Channel 5 1966

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9226...post-dispatch/
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    Bill Dawley
    b. 1958
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1987.

    Tim Conroy
    b. 1960
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1986-1987.

    Mike Laga
    b. 1960
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1986-1988.

    Doug Decinces
    b. 1950
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1987.

    Ray Soff
    b. 1958
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1986-1987.
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    50 Cars Lost In Cornfield During 1904 Race

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3496...ouis-republic/



    Thieves Arrested Stealing Farm Equipment 1903

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3000...arrests-thief/
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    Kenny Agostino
    b. 1992
    Played hockey for the Blues 2016-2017.

    Patrik Berglund
    b. 1988
    Played hockey for the Blues 2008-2018.

    Pheonix Copley
    b. 1992
    Played hockey for the Blues 2015-2017.

    Robby Fabbri
    b. 1996
    Played hockey for the Blues 2015-2020.

    Carl Gunnarsson
    b. 1986
    Played hockey for the Blues 2014-2021.
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    Actor Hugh O'Brian was in St. Louis October 9, 2010, to attend a fund raiser for the Leukemia And Lymphoma Society.




    Movie Listings January 6 1950 St. Louis

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4433...ovie-listings/
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