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Elmer Hagemeyer was a Si Louis policeman before and after WWII. While stationed in Kentucky, he befriended a younger soldier from Minnesota, Charles Monroe Schulz, LDUIS POST-DISPATCH Go shopping in the Post-Dispatch Whether you're interested in Retail, known to his buddies as Charlie. When Hagemeyer would drive Real Estate, Travel or Automotive, back to St. Louis on leave to visit his wife Margaret, young Charlie would come along. The Hagemeyers became almost a surrogate family to Charlie.

Charlie liked to draw, and even decorated the letters Elmer would write, as well as use Elmer as a sketch subject. In 1950, Charles Schulz (1922-2000), aka "Sparky," created the legendary "Peanuts" comic, the most famous in history. He used the Hagemeyer name as the married name of Linus' teacher, as well as when your're ready to shop, go shopping in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, COMICS the name of Marcie's organ teacher. The strip appeared for decades in the Globe-Democrat and then later in this section.

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