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...
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,...
Selling raffle tickets for The Military Order of the Purple Heart
Gary Daniel of Peoria, Ill., a 1957 graduate of Hannibal High School, was at the Loafers Car Show on Saturday, May 9, selling raffle...
Former thriving business district ultimately lost to river’s ravages
Flooding river photo This photo shows the 100 block of Third Street, South Side, facing north, circa 1903. At the north of the photo is...
Marion Hotel Clerk, Fred Schwartzberg
Marilyn Miles of Monroe City identifies the man in this photo as Fred Schwartzberg, who managed the Marion Hotel on South Main Street...
Two former South Main Street business families merging into one
The Mississippi River flood of 1947 was expertly recorded on black and white film by C.G. Tarleton Jr., a first cousin of my mother, Mary...
Heiser, Lackner among hundreds attending 1875 Turner Society ball
Hannibal’s German Turner Society hosted a masquerade ball in observance of Mardi Gras in February 1875. Among the participants were Miss...
1852: Two beeves passing on Hannibal's Main Street
This is one of the funniest little tidbits of information I've found in awhile. It came from the Hannibal Journal March 25, 1852. Just...