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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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	Kurt Allerman b. 1955 Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1977-1979, 1982-1984. Mark Arneson b. 1949 Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1972-1980. John Barefield b. 1955 Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1978-1980. Joe Bostic b. 1957 Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1979-1987. Theotis Brown b. 1957 Played football for the St. Louis Cardinals 1979-1981.
	Posted 08-24-2021 at 05:57 AM by aliasfinn

	Fears Bunco Men In The City So He sleeps In Shed With $2,949 In 1914. https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...tar-and-times/ License For Girl, Poison For Mother 1910 https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...tar-and-times/
	Posted 08-24-2021 at 06:01 AM by aliasfinn

	Where Women Live By Theft 1896 https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/ Fun In Acapulco 1963 Advertisement https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7697...-the-st-louis/
	Posted 08-24-2021 at 05:58 PM by aliasfinn

	1935 Movie Listings https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5334...tar-and-times/ 1960 Movie Listings https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4451...ovie-listings/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 04:46 AM by aliasfinn

	Terrance Karl Alden "The Bionic Bandit" https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3061...post-dispatch/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...76/772/254639/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 04:50 AM by aliasfinn

	Barry Gibbs b. 1948 Played hockey for the Blues 1977-1979. Inge Hammarstrom b. 1948 Played hockey for the Blues 1977-1979. Bob Hess b. 1955 Played hockey for the Blues 1974-1981. Gary Holt b. 1952 Played hockey for the Blues 1977-1978. Phil Myre b. 1948 Played hockey for the Blues 1977-1979.
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 04:58 AM by aliasfinn

	1967 Movie Listings https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9893...post-dispatch/ 1969 Movie Listings https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4456...ovie-listings/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 05:01 AM by aliasfinn

	Egan-Hogan Gang Feud 1923 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2265...post-dispatch/ Mistake Led To Killing Of Innocent Man 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3424...tar-and-times/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 05:06 AM by aliasfinn

	Night Must Fall 1937 Movie Advertisement https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/ 1930 St. Louis Theatre Promo https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...louis-theatre/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 05:11 AM by aliasfinn

	Lefty West (1915-1979) Played for the St. Louis Browns 1944-1945. Al Hollingsworth (1908-1996) b. St. Louis Played for the St. Louis Browns 1942-1946. Al LaMacchia (1921-2010) b. St. Louis Played for the St. Louis Browns 1943-1946. Red Hayworth (1916-2006) Played for the St. Louis Browns 1944-1945. Earl Jones (1919-1989) Played for the St. Louis Browns 1945.
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 05:18 AM by aliasfinn

	The Futura Drive-In 1971 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1437...post-dispatch/ 1974 Movie Listings https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4733...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 05:21 AM by aliasfinn

	Man From U.N.C.L.E. Movies 1966 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9162...post-dispatch/ Special Stage Show At St. Louis Theatre 1964 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5895...w-at-st-louis/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 05:30 AM by aliasfinn

	Died From A Tooth-Pulling 1923 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5077...tar-and-times/ Dangerous Target Practice 1901 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9787...t-kasten-1901/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 05:35 AM by aliasfinn

	Empress Playhouse Vincent Price 1954 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2152...post-dispatch/ Cave Springs Cinema 1979 Opening https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4823...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 05:56 AM by aliasfinn

	Fire Damage To The Old Powhattan Theater 1956 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2047...post-dispatch/ 1959 Movie Listings https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4531...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 06:00 AM by aliasfinn

	Pete Appleton (1904-1974) Played for the St. Louis Browns 1942-1945. Ellis Clary (1916-2000) Played for the St. Louis Browns 1943-1945. Sig Jakucki (1909-1979) Played for the St. Louis Browns 1936, 1944-1945. Mike Kreevich (1908-1994) Played for the St. Louis Browns 1943-1945. Ox Miller (1915-2007) Played for the St. Louis Browns 1943-1946.
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 06:05 AM by aliasfinn

	Amateur Boxing At Grand Theatre 1955 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5157...post-dispatch/ Palm Theater Re-Opening Sep 26 1952 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3408...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 06:09 AM by aliasfinn

	Mickey Mouse Show Moving To Channel 11 1963 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4603...post-dispatch/ Movie Listings January 2 1960 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1758...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 06:12 AM by aliasfinn

	Show Dogs Hit By Streetcar 1909 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7051...post-dispatch/ Love Lured A Missouri Outlaw To Death 1903 https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 06:16 AM by aliasfinn

	Meet The Spirits Of St. Louis 1974 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4732...post-dispatch/ Falstaff Presents; The Grateful Dead 1970 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3465...post-dispatch/
	Posted 08-25-2021 at 08:24 PM by aliasfinn

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