Hannibal, Mo.: 1884 night fire reshaped 200 block of Broadway
This photo, from Bobby Heiser’s collection, shows the Lackner building at the corner of Main and Broadway in Hannibal, Mo., which burned...
McKee founded law-enforcement force, but couldn’t protect his son
W.W. Graves was the artist behind this illustration, which was published in the Marion County Herald at Palmyra, Mo., on July 14, 1909....
Mules, corn cob pipes: Missouri legendary lore
Missouri’s mule and corn cob pipe. Cartoon published in the Chickasha, Oklahoma newspaper, Nov. 5, 1909. Newspapers.com MARY LOU...
3 men, 3 Civil War stories of service to their country
George Hudson Sherwood, Martin Steffan and Charles A. McGlothlin each trained at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill., after enlistment...
Scotland County, Mo., family members born performers
Archie Royer and Mystya Steffan (of Memphis, Mo.) was published in the Topeka State Journal, Topeka, Kansas, on March 30, 1907....
During ‘wingwalker’ era, daredevil stunt goes awry
R.W. Shrock 1929 Decatur, Ill., Herald May 7, 1929 genealogybank.com MARY LOU MONTGOMERY On Oct. 5, 1924, veteran pilot Rolland...
Young telegraph operator blamed for fatal rail crash
The St. Louis Post Dispatch published a series of illustrations featuring Clay Brown, the M.K.&T. Railroad telegraph operator at Paris,...
Horrific train wreck: Four lives lost; 4 Missouri families forever altered
This photo of the actual steam engine accident of Sept.23, 1907, was published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch Sept. 29, 1907....
Four local men perished in 1907 ‘cornfield meet’
This photo of Charles Edward Winegar was posted on FIND-A-GRAVE by a relative, Sally (Winegar) Flaherty. Archie Hayden of Hannibal...
1890s: 'Pluck' Maloney known as 'the terror of Hannibal'
A building abandoned by the Presbyterians in favor of a more spacious house of worship became home to Hannibal’s Court of Common Pleas...