Vice President George Bush answered a few questions from the news media upon his arrival at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport on the morning of Oct. 22, 1984. Gov. Kit Bond is standing at Bush's right. Behind him, from left to right, are Mary Kasten, Kevin Phillips and U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson. (Southeast Missourian archive)...

The one-story white building in the center of this photograph is the Stucco restaurant, built by Fred A. "Daddy" Kain in the fall of 1916. It stood on the site of the Riverview Hotel on the northwest corner of Broadway and Water Street. (Southeast Missourian archive)...

Twenty-five years ago, on Nov. 26, 1993, Cape Girardeau County lost a historic structure: Hobbs Chapel United Methodist Church. The morning after Thanksgiving Day, volunteer firefighters were called to the 101-year-old structure, only to find it "fully engulfed in smoke and flames." Little could be done, but watch the chapel and its companion 12-year-old education center surrender to the flames...

This is a line drawing of the original St. Vincent's Catholic Church, built in Cape Girardeau in 1838. The stone edifice was destroyed by a tornado in 1850. (Southeast Missourian archive)...

Published Dec. 30, 1942, pg. 1 The above photo, made recently, shows the first sections of the big War Emergency Pipe Line, which will carry oil from Texas to Illinois, being laid across the Mississippi River south of Cape Girardeau. The photo was made from the pipe-laying barge, looking towards the Missouri shore. ...

Nov. 11, 2018, marks the centennial of the end of World War I, the "war to end all wars." So much for grand promises... It's an anniversary that shouldn't be forgotten...

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying... And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall thou overlay it, and shall make upon it a crown of gold round about... And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee... (Exodus 25: 1, 10-11, 14)...

A portion of a panoramic photograph made by Kassel Studio in 1918 is shown here. Pictured are members of the Student Army Training Corps and the Southeast Missouri State Normal School Military Band in front of Academic Hall. (Kassel Studio photograph ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

While I was never a Girl Scout, I can appreciate the efforts supporters are making to retain Camp Cherokee Ridge as a resident Girl Scout camp. Members of the board of directors of Missouri Heartland Girl Scouts voted in September to close the Wayne County camp Dec. 16 and sell the property...

Among the thousands of unidentified negatives Garland D. Fronabarger delivered to the Missourian after his retirement in 1986 was one for the image below, which we have teasingly referred to as "Cape's first drive-through cleaner."...

Cape Girardeau's Carnegie library opened its doors in 1922 and served as the public library until a new facility was built on Clark Avenue in 1980. This photograph was taken before the 1959 addition obscured the original appearance of the structure. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

I frequently get telephone calls asking me for historical information, such as when something was built or who owned a certain piece of property. Recently, a caller asked me to supply the name of a physician who practiced medicine in Moccasin Springs...

In this November 1968 photograph, M. Charles Rhinehart, right, chats with Gustav F. and Hazel Goetsch, who were the guest artists for the annual Missourian Art Show that year. Rhinehart had served in the same capacity in 1966 and did so again in 1971. (Southeast Missourian archive)...

Anyone keeping up with the news of the day knows that Cape Girardeau will play host to President Donald Trump on Thursday at the Show Me Center. Trump will be the fourth chief executive to visit our fair city while a still in office. The others were William Howard Taft in 1909, Ronald Reagan in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 1996. ...

The grotto on the grounds of historic St. Vincent's College can be seen in this November 1960 photograph. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian)...

Christ Episcopal Church is at the northwest corner of Fountain and Themis streets in Cape Girardeau. (Sharon Sanders ~ ssanders@missourian.com)...

Two of my great uncles — Cyril Stehr and Frank Glaus — were both barbers, but not in the same shop. While Frank clipped hair and pumped gasoline in Commerce, Missouri, Cyril plied his tonsorial trade among what family lore says were underworld figures in St. Louis...

In March 1962 the Cape Girardeau Country Club hired a married couple -- Fred and Murle Lindstrom -- as golf pros, after several years of having no one in that position. Three months later, Murle Lindstrom headed for Florida and the U.S. Women's Open golf championship, intending it to be her last tournament. She came home with an unexpected first-place finish...

Kent Library has graced the campus of Southeast Missouri State University since the Depression era of 1939. But in the building-happy days of the Dr. Mark Scully administration, Kent was expanded and redressed, eliminating any semblance of the original structure. Fifty years ago this month, workers were putting the finishing touches on the project...

Tucked away in my office closet at the Missourian is a stack of scrapbooks. Most were compiled by Missourian staffers long gone. Others were donated by readers, who asked us to preserve the stories and photos contained within the books, donating them to the Missourian's archive...