Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2008

Man Begs for Food with $83 In Pocket

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1920 Claims He's a House Cleaner — "He Sure Is," Says Cop. KANSAS CITY, Missouri. — Four pocketbooks and $83 were found on Ste...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Wife Kills Man Beating Husband

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1920 ST. LOUIS, Missouri. — Frank Smrcka, 43, was shot and instantly killed by Mrs. Ida Shea, 24, while engaged in a fight with Mrs. Shea...
Friday, April 18, 2008

No Use for $1,500,000 Fund

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1916 Original Bequest Was Made to Aid Needy Immigrants. ST. LOUIS, Missouri. — This city is trying to find some way in which it can make use...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Flag Again On Pike's Peak

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1916 Thanks to a Patriotic Kansas City Woman. KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Mrs. Emma Howell, 2614 Olive Street, while on her vacation in Colorado...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Utilizing the Mayor

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Dec. 1919 Several infuriated citizens took it on themselves to jump all over Mayor Chamberlin last week because of a current rumor that ...

Believe Squirrels Migrate

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1919 Hunters Cannot Otherwise Explain Disappearance of Game. SPRINGFIELD, 'Mo. — The disappearance of squirrels from many communities in...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

One Policeman Who Couldn't Get Fat

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1910 ST. LOUIS. — Dismissed from the police force because he was too thin to present a formidable appearance to offending humanity, John Hig...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

The Polka Dot

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1919 Because in 1835 a Bohemian peasant girl danced a new step in a little village near the Polish border a Hungarian dancing master introdu...
Sunday, July 8, 2007

Plunges Into Dark Shaft

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Missouri, 1915 Mrs. Fred C. Pettis and her 13-year-old daughter, Gladys, were passing thru a patch of weeds near a persimmon grove at Chitwo...
Monday, June 25, 2007

153 Pushed Overboard From Torpedo Boat

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1909 Jam at Opening of St. Louis Carnival ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 8. — Fifteen thousand enthusiastic and curious persons tried to board four ti...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Scared Dog Bests Long Dead 'Gator

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Printed Feb. 1920 Fearless Journalists and Compositors Pale at Scene of Devastation SHELBYVILLE, Missouri. — A dead alligator caused more te...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

She Swallowed 1,446 Pieces of Hardware

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1911 Editorial Quips on the News A post-mortem examination of a Missouri lady who had a mania for heavy diet resulted in the discovery of 1,...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Lily-White Record is Lost to County

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1920 Along Comes Burglar and Spills the Precious Beans JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — The record of St. Clair County as a lily-white community h...

She Stops Traffic To Light Her "Fag"

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March 1920 KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Street car traffic on a busy street was tied up while a young woman smoked a cigarette. It wouldn't h...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Get 10,000 Pounds of Fish

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1920 Two Men Using Seine Make Record Catch, Mostly Carp ST. LOUIS, Missouri — Edward and Joseph Larbey, fishermen, caught 10,000 pounds of f...
Saturday, June 9, 2007

Hungry Lad Is Shot While Seeking Food

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Feb. 1920 Restaurant Owner's Bullets Halts Attempted Burglary TOPEKA, Kansas — Hungry, cold and unable to sleep, John Ross, 10-year-old ...
Friday, June 8, 2007

Five Hens Lay Eggs in Deep Snow Nests

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Feb. 1920 Fowls Dig Their Own Snug Roosts on Roof of Barn HILERTON, New York — It being the warmest day of the winter, Chester Wasselton, a ...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Cole Younger

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1903 COLE YOUNGER. [Good link] Unfortunately Minnesota omitted to stipulate that Cole Younger must not write a book.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Col...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Unsuccessful Suicide Attempt, Drinking Listerine

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Missouri, 1922 MAN TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE Police Say Dwight Tannehill Drank Listerine in Unsuccessful Attempt to End Life An unsuccessful a...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Famous Missouri Parrot Dies At 52

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Was a Wise Old Bird and a Great Talker. Could Carry on a Conversation With Herself -- Cyclones Her Only Terror. WEST PLAINS, Mo., May 20 -- ...