Interesting Missouri facts. (St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Warrensburg: mobile home, activities, suburban)

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Car On Roof

I bet if he didn't hit that telephone pole first he might have cleared the roof of that house and landed in the back yard. That was some real Evil Knievel looking stuff.

Driver in critical condition after car lands on roof of St. Loui - KMOV.com

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15 Archeological Finds In Missouri

15 Amazing Archeologist Discoveries In Missouri




Average Annual Temperatures In Missouri

https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...mperatures.php




Johnny Yong Bosch 1976-
Kansas City, Missouri
Actor, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

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Alton Evening Telegraph June 16, 1910

Obituary Of Woman Reveals Who Buried Confederate Soldiers...And That One Of The Soldiers Was A Woman

Mrs. Michael Gleason, for 50 years or more a resident of Alton, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Miss Bridget Gleason, in St. Louis, where she moved from Alton about 11 years ago. She was 90 years old the first day of last February, and up to about 9 weeks ago was strong and sound in every way, considering her age. The body will arrive in Alton tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock, and will be buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Michael Gleason died about 10 years ago, or about a year after he and his wife moved to St. Louis. He was in the employ of the late Henry W Hart during the Civil War, and it was he who buried all of the Confederates who died in the Alton prison. It was he who discovered that one of the soldiers was a woman, and he was the only one who knew the exact spot where she was buried. It is related that annually while he lived in Alton, after the war, he visited that grave and placed flowers on it.





John M Weiner, formerly Mayor of the city of St. Louis, was arrested in that city and kept in prison without any charges whatever. After the cruel treatment common to St. Louis prisons, he was transferred to Alton Penitentiary, and from there made his escape, and was killed near Springfield, Missouri. Mrs. Weiner sent for her husband's body for burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Whilst his wife and friends were preparing his body for burial, Samuel R Curtis sent a squad of soldiers, who stole the corpse from his wife and buried it in a secret place.

(They have the wrong name, I believe this is the guy they are talking about)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wimer

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Claude Benton Gillingwater (1870-1939)
Louisiana, Missouri
Actor

Northeast Missouri man helped found Oscars - Herald-Whig -#



https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...&GRid=66834210





The Eclipse

The Historic Moment When Missouri Will Be Sent Into Darkness




Crime Stats For Missouri In 2015

502 Murders
2553 Rapes
6376 Robberies
20,830 Aggravated Assaults

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The first recorded use of a bank using a drive-up window teller was the Grand National Bank of St. Louis in 1930. The drive-up teller allowed only deposits at that time.





Alton Evening Telegraph November 5, 1917

5 Death In Family After Woman Had Same Dream

Mrs. Carrie Taylor of Edwardsville, who yesterday entered a St. Louis hospital to undergo an operation, declared that the death of her husband last week in a railroad accident was the fifth death in her family to occur after a dream. The dream each time presented to her a scene depicting the narrow escape from drowning of her son, Marion Dickinson, aged 19. Each time the mother in her vision rescued the boy. The first time she dreamed this, another son died shortly afterward. Several years later the vision came to her again and within a month her twins died. A year ago it was followed by a telegram announcing the death of her father at Cuba, Mo. Two weeks ago Mrs. Taylor arose one morning and announced that the dream had come to her once more. The doctors told her she must go to a hospital for an operation, and she was sure that her death was the one indicated, she ordered a casket and shroud, and had her will made out.

[elkotronics]

The first recorded use of a bank using a drive-up window teller was the Grand National Bank of St. Louis in 1930. The drive-up teller allowed only deposits at that time.

Another cool first for the state of Missouri!

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Originally Posted by elkotronics

The first recorded use of a bank using a drive-up window teller was the Grand National Bank of St. Louis in 1930. The drive-up teller allowed only deposits at that time.

Another cool first for the state of Missouri!

Yep, car phones, sliced bread...
We were the trendsetter back in the old days.

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Associated Press 1922

Thinks Healer Met With Foul Play
Wife Of Francis Schlatter Says Man Had Enemies
Police Seek Woman

St. Louis, Oct 17---Mrs. Agnes Schlatter, wife of Francis Schlatter, nationally known healer, who died here last night, arrived in St. Louis tonight from Kansas City and expressed the opinion that Schlatter died of a hemorrhage and that police were seeking a young woman who came here with him a week ago and who disappeared. She said she had been awaiting the arrival of her husband in Kansas City for several days. She explained that Schlatter had a huge following of spiritualists who she said were much opposed to his contemplating joining the Episcopal Church. Expressing the belief that her husband was waylaid here. Mrs. Schlatter asserted "They Got Him."


https://capturedandexposed.com/tag/francis-schlatter/



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schlatter

[elkotronics]

Yep, car phones, sliced bread...
We were the trendsetter back in the old days.

https://orschelnproducts.com/about-orscheln/

The Orscheln Co. invented the first "over-center" parking brake ever in 1939, and The Orscheln Co. was started in Moberly, MO.

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Originally Posted by elkotronics

Yep, car phones, sliced bread...
We were the trendsetter back in the old days.

https://orschelnproducts.com/about-orscheln/

The Orscheln Co. invented the first "over-center" parking brake ever in 1939, and The Orscheln Co. was started in Moberly, MO.

Interesting, I never heard of that company.