Mules pulled this Budweiser wagon
Abe Toalson stands in front of a Budweiser beer wagon - pulled by mules instead of the famed Clydesdales - in the 400 block of Broadway....
You couldn't beat the tenderloins at Abe's Bar and Grill in Hannibal
When the carnival was in town, business was particularly brisk at Abe's Bar and Grill. Carey Toalson remembers preparing tenderloins...
Abe's Bar and Grill patrons had their own names engraved on their steins
From left, Abe, Nellie and Roy Toalson. Contributed: Carey Toalson of Hannibal Abe's Bar and Grill, located on the southwest corner of...
1972: Phillip Brown and son, moving a bank safe down Broadway
Rhonda Hall described to me the day, back in the summer of 1972, when her father's company, Phillip Brown and Son, got the job to move...
Read the story from the HCP archives: Hannibal legacy continues, Brown Moving Company
J.T. Brown is proud that he has been able to keep the legacy started by his grandfather, and continued by his father, alive and thriving....
Old safe headed to new home
Brown Moving Company removes an antique safe from the old Klene Printing Company building at 205 N. Main Street, Hannibal, Missouri
Old safe’s removal from historic building requires combination of ingenuity, brawn
MARY LOU MONTGOMERY Retired editor, Hannibal Courier-Post Old and heavy. That’s how Greg Addison described a safe that was removed from a...
Standard Oil filling station made way for Courier-Post parking lot
The Courier-Post moved into the building at Center and Third streets, downtown Hannibal, in 1952. Otis Howell, newspaper photographer,...
1939: H.C. Koch buys Bird Street property for business site; razes historic house
Cutline: An old frame residence that stood at 306 Bird Street for more than 100 years was torn down in 1939 to make room for a modern...
1875: Pet wolf raids restaurant's kitchen
Robert H. Price, proprietor of the St. James restaurant, 211 N. Main Street, Hannibal, kept a pet wolf in a shed adjoining his kitchen,...