From the Morgue
The Southeast Missourian's resident historian Sharon K. Sanders blogs about interesting pieces of local history pulled from the newspaper's morgue -- the place where our old editions are kept.
Archives
- A third steamer Cape Girardeau was christened 100 years ago (3/26/24)
- Cape Girardeau christens its namesake (3/19/24)
- The humanist philosophy of Lester Mondale (3/12/24)1
- Cape Osteopathic Hospital opens its doors (3/5/24)
- 8 killed and a million dollars damage done in 1924 tornado (2/27/24)1
- Jackson's militant priest, county recorder at odds over marriage licenses (2/20/24)
- Streaking fad comes to Cape (2/13/24)2
- Recalling the start of MEW (2/6/24)
- A few more items from the 1923 end-of-the-year edition (1/30/24)1
- Predictions for 1924 in the year-end edition (1/23/24)
- Year-end edition provides history of Trinity Lutheran (1/16/24)
- Jackson Masons build a new temple (1/9/24)
- Mules on ice and the winter of 1923-24 (1/2/24)1
- Egg hatchery a 'mammoth' undertaking (12/26/23)1
- Winifred Johnson honored (12/19/23)
- Teachers College history teacher travels to Egypt (12/12/23)1
- Balloon parade ushers in Christmas season (12/5/23)
- Conclusion to Cape County's school districts consolidation (11/28/23)4
- Oak Ridge defends its high school (11/21/23)
- School consolidation talk in Cape County (11/14/23)
- Honor guard pays tribute to fallen veterans (11/7/23)
- Bodies stored for years before burial (10/31/23)1
- Pine Hill Railroad entertains at the fair (10/24/23)
- A look a Cape County in 1873 (10/17/23)2
- Chicago artists paddle the Mississippi (10/10/23)
- Celebrating the career of John T. Crowe, physician (10/3/23)2
- Washing dishes isn't just a job for women (9/26/23)1
- Leming home on Ellis razed for church parking (9/19/23)
- Paul Leming's jinx (9/12/23)
- The Cape County courthouse as it appeared in 1908 (9/5/23)
- Cape Girardeau woman's link to the deadly bubonic plague (8/29/23)
- Revolt at Albert Hall (8/22/23)2
- Frank Lowry's race for Missouri Attorney General (8/15/23)
- Surviving the 1973 flood (8/8/23)
- Modern times on the Joseph Kirchdoerfer farm (8/1/23)3
- D. Boone's fiddle (7/25/23)
- The sad tale of Theresia Wills (7/18/23)6
- 'Hartzell mansion,' magnolia fell to progress in 1948 (7/11/23)
- Rodding the Lorimier Elm (7/4/23)
- New Hamburg celebrates a triple jubilee (6/27/23)1
- Education Building dedicated 100 years ago (6/20/23)4
- Marquette Cement honors John Luchow (6/13/23)1
- Nora Gammon promises to clean up Thebes (6/6/23)2
- Tom Thumb wedding raises money for Centenary's Junior League (5/30/23)
- The life of Archie T. Smiley (5/23/23)6
- Perry Hopper, Confederate soldier (5/16/23)1
- Haarig bank opened 100 years ago (5/9/23)
- Bill Cato's pursuit of an education (5/2/23)
- Walter H. Ford begins his political career (4/25/23)
- A mystery from 1923 (4/18/23)1
- Remembering a beloved teacher (4/11/23)
- Peter Hilty describes 1873 Cape Girardeau (4/4/23)3
- Commissioner Brissenden comes to the aid of West Enders (3/28/23)
- West End sewer prompts legal battles (3/21/23)1
- Grace Methodist congregation processes to new edifice (3/14/23)
- Red Williams: Athletic trainer at SE takes on new role (3/7/23)
- German M.E. Church becomes Grace Church (2/28/23)
- A 'true community center' went up in flames 75 years ago (2/21/23)
- Ground broken for medical center 50 years ago (2/14/23)
- Hecht building a design of noted architect T.P. Barnett (2/7/23)
- Frozen pipe floods Hecht's store (1/31/23)
- Tracing Cape Girardeau's Masonic roots (1/24/23)
- Lamenting the passing of the harness maker (1/17/23)1
- What's in a name? The naming of two Cape Girardeau parks (1/10/23)1
- Warren and Betty come home (1/3/23)
- Cathryn Adams: ‘I walked in at noon eight years ago and I intend to walk out at the same time’ (12/27/22)
- Leslie Lindy's gift (12/20/22)
- Warren Hearnes looks back on his days as Missouri governor (12/13/22)
- James Brown should have met Flo Edwards (12/6/22)3
- Photos that continue to mystify (11/29/22)5
- Frieda Rieck's talents extended beyond music (11/22/22)2
- Auto polo takes center stage at the '22 fair (11/15/22)
- A hero returns to his hometown (11/8/22)
- Cross recalls 1699 event (11/1/22)
- Lagoon has been drained before, 1962 (10/25/22)
- Lagoon has been drained before, 1932 (10/18/22)
- 1922 travelers find Missouri roads 'simply terrible,' but the 'scenery grand' (10/11/22)1
- Lee L. Albert's service to Cape Girardeau (10/4/22)
- My family discusses Mo-Mo (9/27/22)
- Monkeying around on Bessie Street (9/20/22)2
- D.A. Glenn retires to Texas (9/13/22)
- U.S. Grant honored by the Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas (9/6/22)
- Fruit-growing has a long history in Cape County (8/30/22)
- Burrowing through an 18-inch brick wall, Frank Casey escaped from the Cape pokey (8/23/22)1
- Bonus blog: Looking back at the 2017 total solar eclipse (8/21/22)
- Rodney Whitelaw: Former Cape mayor, genius of the Cape Fair (8/16/22)
- Triplet calves born on the Goodson farm (8/9/22)
- Recalling the '47 Capahas (8/2/22)1
- Capaha old timers play benefit for cerebral palsy (7/26/22)1
- City of Cape feuds with bus companies (7/19/22)
- Last concrete of I-55 between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis poured (7/12/22)
- The kind of war we would welcome (7/5/22)
- 'Line girl' dressed in hotpants, go-go boots greets pilots (6/28/22)2
- The end of the Golden Dragon (6/21/22)
- The 'Prosperity Special' visits Illmo (6/14/22)
- 200 Japanese cherry trees planted in Cape park (6/7/22)
- Unnerstall's Drug Store closed 25 years ago (5/31/22)
- Excelsior Music expands its quarters (5/24/22)
- Rose City took patrons for a ride (5/17/22)1
- True to their founding, Facultyettes stage a fun hat revue (5/10/22)
- Memories of Leming Hall (5/3/22)
- Air show celebrates passage of airport bond issue (4/26/22)
- Harris Field becomes a municipal airport (4/19/22)2
- Recalling the 1844 flood and the strange occurrences of 1811 (4/12/22)
- A massive log and the Langlois house (4/5/22)1
- 'One brief, shining moment...' (3/29/22)
- Oak Ridge native flew, crashed with Eddie Rickenbacker (3/22/22)1
- 1922: Shamrocks, Ferris wheels and moonshine stills (3/15/22)
- Ransom brothers reunite (3/8/22)1
- Rewarding heroics (3/1/22)
- Earlier fire damaged St. Mary's (2/22/22)
- Mary Frissell: Randles High's war-time basketball coach (2/15/22)1
- Arson fire destroys Charleston courthouse (2/8/22)
- St. Louis writer bemoans the loss of Cape's Civil War-era farm (2/1/22)5
- Central High picks its first 'Afro Queen' (1/25/22)1
- Tom Harte's first brush with culinary fame (1/18/22)
- The storm that damaged Grace Lutheran Church (1/11/22)
- The artwork of 'maverick' Grant Lund (1/4/22)
- A mystery: What happened to the portrait of Gen. Nathaniel W. Watkins? (12/28/21)
- Another prominent home completed in 1921 (12/21/21)
- Eugene Penny defends his right of free enterprise (12/14/21)3
- Powder puff mechanics learn auto maintenance (12/7/21)2
- Evangelist Culpepper attacks picture shows, Cape's 'lewd-loving public' (11/30/21)1
- When Cape Girardeau was condemned as a 'dancing community' (11/23/21)
- Jackson, Cape County's county seat, 1971 (11/16/21)
- Scott County's county seat, 1971 (11/9/21)
- Lucky James Barks becomes mayor of Cape Girardeau (11/2/21)1
- Otto Dingeldein's contributions to the arts (10/26/21)1
- Dr. Hope builds a house (10/19/21)
- Remember when newspapers had carrier boys? (10/12/21)1
- More on buses serving Cape Girardeau (10/5/21)2
- Bus transportation in 1946 (9/28/21)1
- Bob Hendrix on life after the chamber (9/21/21)
- Fire engulfs Lorberg store on Sprigg Street (9/14/21)1
- Six women made Cape County history in 1946 (9/7/21)2
- Close call for Girardean (8/31/21)
- The friendly town of Marble Hill (8/24/21)
- The modern features of May Greene School (8/17/21)
- More about the July 1971 storm (8/10/21)
- Storm takes the roof off of Burfordville bridge, destroys airport hangar (8/3/21)
- 1971 series features Oran (7/27/21)
- Judge Marybelle Mueller's legacy (7/20/21)4
- Cousin's log home razed (7/13/21)3
- 1858 Capitol View of Cape Girardeau (7/6/21)1
- Missouri's political pot boiled over in 1971 (6/29/21)
- Orphan trains: Solving NYC's child homeless problem (6/22/21)
- 'Baby show' finds homes for children (6/15/21)
- William H. Escue and White Mule (6/8/21)
- Rocket planes land at Cape airfield (6/1/21)1
- Anna Weise Bruihl was the first to dance at the Common Pleas (5/25/21)1
- Italian immigrant John Sciortino (5/18/21)
- Horses on stairs, flivvers on stairs (5/11/21)1
- 'Big Elam' Vangilder (5/4/21)
- From the archive: Namesake school honors May Greene (4/27/21)1
- From the archive: Cape's downtown dreamer (4/20/21)
- From the archive: Home of the big chair went up in smoke in 1989 (4/13/21)
- Cape's public school system turns 154 (4/6/21)
- Cape Girardeau Country Club marks a century of play (3/30/21)
- From the archive: Mom Sheppard's world (3/23/21)
- From the archive: Duels satisfied insults in pioneer Missouri (3/16/21)
- From the archive: St. Patty's Day customs seen through Irish eyes (3/5/21)1
- A new Frisco depot for Cape Girardeau (3/2/21)
- The Duckworth children (2/23/21)
- A.S. Duckworth's gift to the university (2/16/21)
- Myrtle Sheppard's world (2/15/21)
- From the archive: Century Farms honor homesteading families (2/9/21)
- From the archive: Kathryn Newman honored (2/2/21)
- From the archive: Monsignor Huels' Mass appeal (1/26/21)2
- From the archive: Jones Refreshment Stand a community gathering spot (1/19/21)1
- From the archive: The men in the old photo... (1/12/21)
- From the archive: A school with an identity crisis (1/5/21)
- From the archive: Discipline leads to Central band's success (12/29/20)
- From the archive: Meet a lucky man -- Harold Kuehle (12/15/20)3
- From the archive: Apple Creek fall festival (12/8/20)
- From the archive: The first Parade of Lights boasted 57 units (12/1/20)
- From the archive: The man who arrested Oswald shares his story (11/24/20)
- From the archive: The economics of goose hunting (11/17/20)
- From the archive: Harris Field and its Warbirds helped win WWII (11/10/20)
- From the archive: Cairo's Custom House re-purposed (11/3/20)
- From the archive: A spooky tale for the season (10/27/20)
- From the archive: I. Ben Miller's 'big cow palace' (10/20/20)
- From the archive: Jane Stacy has made an art of accumulating friends (10/13/20)
- From the archive: President Truman visits 1945 Caruthersville fair (10/6/20)1
- From the archive: Cape's wall a thing of beauty during times of flood (9/29/20)1
- From the archive: Rush H. Limbaugh Sr., at age 103 (9/22/20)
- From the archive: The games people played (9/15/20)1
- From the archive: '49 Central High hoopsters reminisce about glory days (9/8/20)1
- From the archive: Area ties to the Jesse James legend (9/1/20)
- From the archive: A look at Smelterville, Part 2 (8/25/20)3
- From the archive: A look at Smelterville, Part 1 (8/18/20)1
- From the archive: Tipton's history stretches back to 1948 (8/11/20)1
- From the archive: Pocahontas, the town, not the movie (8/4/20)
- From the archive: Artist Mark Farmer is a master builder (7/28/20)
- From the archive: Kent Library's Rare Book Room (7/21/20)
- Bonus blog: The other Jeff Hutson-Willie Willeford connection (7/16/20)1
- From the archive: Nash wrote the book on L. Lorimier, literally (7/14/20)
- From the archive: Commission works to preserve Scott City's history (7/7/20)
- From the archive: An interview with author Jean Bell Mosley (6/30/20)1
- From the archive: Cape doctor challenged the Mississippi (6/23/20)
- From the archive: A Father's Day memory (6/16/20)
- From the archive: Fruitland's growth (6/9/20)
- From the archive: Museum honored the Golden Troopers (6/2/20)
- From the archive: The thrill of tandem skydiving (5/26/20)
- From the archive: Old school, new name (5/19/20)
- From the archive: Memories of Bataan (5/12/20)
- From the archive: A history of Sedgewickville (5/5/20)
- From the archive: Kenny Rogers and the Cerebral Palsy Center (4/28/20)
- From the archive: A history of Altenburg (4/21/20)
- From the archive: Preserving his father's legacy (4/14/20)1
- From the archive: When the bells of St. Mary's fell silent (4/7/20)
- From the archive: 'Hair, hair... Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it...' (3/31/20)
- From the archive: Highway 61 revisited (3/24/20)
- From the archive: Perennial presidential candidate visited Jackson in 1987 (3/17/20)
- From the archive: Lexington extension forces razing of historic log home (3/10/20)
- From the archive: Threats force move of Cape LaCroix Cross (3/3/20)1
- From the archive: A wet tradition at the corner of Independence and Frederick (2/25/20)3
- From the archive: Saying goodbye to a retiring presiding commissioner (2/18/20)2
- From the archive: Taking care of business with the Johns family (2/11/20)
- From the archive: Line dancing in the Heartland (2/4/20)
- From the archive: Historic building gives way to Salvation Army (1/28/20)2
- From the archive: From Wimpy's to the Blue Hole, Cape's hangouts are reviewed (1/21/20)1
- From the archive: Arboreta is one of Cape's hidden treasures (1/14/20)
- From the archive: Contented Australian birds make Southeast Missouri home (1/7/20)
- Bonus blog: Tourney pic causes stir (1/3/20)1
- From the archive: Hunters test their marksmanship (12/31/19)
- From the archive: 1994 Christmas lights contest winners (12/24/19)
- From the archive: Safety patrol, 1993 (12/17/19)
- Bonus blog: 25 years ago, Bekki Cook became Missouri Secretary of State (12/16/19)
- From the archive: Three-alarm fire damages Plaza Tire, Lanter Company; firefighter injured (12/10/19)
- From the archive: Honoring a hero (12/3/19)
- From the archive: Colon a winner on and off court (11/26/19)1
- From the archive: Demo man's Last Chance (11/19/19)1
- From the archive: Clippard kids learn playground lessons (11/12/19)
- From the archive: Ole Hickory Pits continues to turn out smokers, cookers (11/5/19)
- Bonus blog: Halloween and coffins just seem to go together (10/31/19)
- From the archive: Cotton is big business in Missouri's Bootheel (10/29/19)
- From the archive: Three generations of Oak Ridge family raise Mo. mules (10/22/19)
- From the archive: Earthquake Anderson breaks Smallwood's rushing record (10/15/19)
- From the archive: Dreams came true for Missourian pressman (10/8/19)
- Bonus blog: Annual Heritage Ball raised money for Glenn House restoration (10/3/19)
- From the archive: Python bites Jackson teacher (10/1/19)
- From the archive: Kellermans restore historic Fountain Street house (9/24/19)1
- From the archive: Cape residents stunned by second triple murder in six weeks (9/17/19)
- From the archive: Linder Deimund's life on the Mississippi (9/10/19)
- Segregation and Cape's municipal swimming pool (9/3/19)2
- Logging in Southeast Missouri, Part 3 (8/27/19)
- Logging in Southeast Missouri, Part 2 (8/20/19)
- Logging in Southeast Missouri, Part 1 (8/13/19)
- WWI changed the way we learned, prayed (8/6/19)3
- Farmers Mutual Telephone Co. survived 1919 spat (7/30/19)
- Watch your language on the phone (7/23/19)
- Jackson man witnessed circus disaster (7/16/19)
- Houck votes against women's suffrage (7/9/19)
- Honoring Revolutionary War patriot Uriah Brock (7/2/19)
- Prohibition makes an early appearance in Cape Girardeau (6/25/19)1
- The military service of Gene Ellis (6/18/19)
- History of the Nancy Hunter Chapter of the DAR (6/11/19)
- Girardeans joined the nation in prayer 75 years ago (6/4/19)
- Thomas Hart Benton (5/28/19)
- Cape tornado's 70th anniversary; more history of the railroad bonds (5/21/19)1
- Committee torches $438,400 in railroad bonds (5/14/19)
- Two more excerpts from Houck's 'Reminiscences' (5/7/19)2
- Houck describes 1860s Cape Girarardeau (4/30/19)
- 150th anniversary of arrival of Louis Houck (4/23/19)
- Research leads to A.D. Leech (4/16/19)
- The unfortunate Mr. McSpadden (4/9/19)
- A tenuous family connection (4/2/19)
- Rare book collection a gift of Charles Harrison (3/26/19)
- Cape County Red Cross acquires a 'mobile canteen' (3/19/19)
- Last of the DAR stories (3/12/19)
- DAR stories continued, part 2 (3/5/19)
- DAR stories continued (2/26/19)
- DAR benefit yields Patriots' stories (2/19/19)
- Gas filling stations made their Cape debut in 1917 (2/12/19)1
- Honoring Robert Faurot (2/5/19)
- A dynamite solution to a water problem (1/29/19)
- 1969 fire destroys Midwest Dairy building (1/22/19)
- Longtime jurist succumbs (1/15/19)
- 'Palatial country residence' of Peironnet family destroyed by fire (1/8/19)
- The close of 1918 (1/1/19)
- Mayor Haas imposes ban (12/25/18)
- The oddest named for a newspaper: The Jimplicute (12/18/18)1
- George Herbert Walker Bush (12/11/18)
- Daddy Kain fed the children of Cape (12/4/18)
- Hobbs Chapel burned 25 years ago (11/27/18)
- November tornado wreaks havoc in Cape (11/20/18)
- Pipeline construction leads to union unrest (11/13/18)2
- The end of the 'war to end all wars' (11/6/18)
- 'And they shall make an ark...' (10/30/18)
- Military training at the Normal School (10/23/18)
- A Cherokee Ridge history lesson (10/16/18)2
- Cape's first drive-through cleaner (10/9/18)
- Carnegie library would make a great museum (10/2/18)
- A doctor named Miller, from Moccasin Springs (9/25/18)
- M. Charles Rhinehart's artistry on display (9/18/18)
- President Taft visited Cape Girardeau in 1909 (9/11/18)
- Remembering St. Vincent's College grotto (9/4/18)
- Church plaque honors one of the founders of Christ Episcopal (8/28/18)
- Barber shop talk turns to saloon talk (8/21/18)
- Cape Country Club's golf pro won U.S. Women's Open (8/14/18)
- A re-dressed Kent Library (8/7/18)
- Scrapbook treasure: The Randol log house (7/31/18)
- Boy, is my face red... (7/24/18)2
- Cape Girardeau architect designed Charleston's Russell Hotel (7/17/18)
- A history of Leemon (7/10/18)
- A piece of Texas in Cape County (7/3/18)
- Haarig landmark ran out of luck in 1923 (6/26/18)
- The life of Major James Francis Brooks (6/19/18)
- Schumer Spring's healing waters (6/12/18)
- Rev. Lilly's first Mass (6/5/18)
- Remembering Randall A. Mattingly (5/29/18)
- Blue Angels perform at runway dedication (5/22/18)
- McClure and the 1943 flood (5/8/18)
- Rush Limbaugh Sr.'s aborted mayoral race (5/8/18)
- Funeral homes bow out of the ambulance business (5/1/18)
- Kelso's link to Kelso (4/24/18)
- Visits Cape after absence of 61 years (4/17/18)
- Frank Unnerstall at the reins (4/10/18)
- Honoring Liston Rhodes Comer (4/3/18)1
- Impatient youth causes Easter stampede (3/27/18)
- A brief history of Neelys Landing (3/20/18)
- Neelys Landing's third boom (3/13/18)
- 100 years of the Southeast Missourian (3/6/18)
- The harsh winter of 1917-18 (2/27/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Mississippi River Parkway (2/20/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's Legacy: Golden Troopers (2/13/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Common Pleas Courthouse, downtown flood control (2/6/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Houck Field House (1/30/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Navy V-12, Houck Field House (1/23/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: State College campus 2 (1/16/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: State College campus 1 (1/9/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Capaha Park (1/2/18)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Kelso Bird Sanctuary, Twin Trees Park (12/26/17)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Cape Rock (12/19/17)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: City water plant and the Alvarado (12/12/17)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: The Frisco franchise, part 3 (12/5/17)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: The Frisco franchise, part 2 (11/28/17)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: The Frisco franchise, part 1 (11/21/17)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: First Christian Church (11/14/17)1
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Prominent men of Kelso's time (11/7/17)
- Evaluating Kelso's legacy: Shoe factory (10/31/17)
- I.R. Kelso (10/24/17)
- Downtown Cape's first 'skyscraper' (10/17/17)
- St. Vincent's builds a new school (10/10/17)
- Old St. Vincent's grade school razed (10/3/17)
- WWI farewells took on a somber tone (9/26/17)
- Cape County's 'First Eight' (9/19/17)2
- Local heroes rescued fountain (9/12/17)
- The evolution of a park (9/5/17)1
- 1953 train derailment took the life of a Lilbourn Guardsman (8/29/17)1
- Dr. A.C. Magill turned personal tragedy into triumph (8/22/17)1
- Family search yields story of John William Daugherty (8/15/17)2
- UPDATE: Missing Murdoch's saber isn't really missing (8/8/17)1
- TWIKA standard became airport landmark (8/1/17)1
- A cross for Tower Rock (7/25/17)1
- Tarzan Jr., visits Cape (7/18/17)
- War removes Cape's mayor (7/11/17)
- Yes, George Washington's cousin is buried at OL (7/4/17)
- Dr. William H. Lawrie Sr. and the Booker T. Washington Theater (6/27/17)
- William Brunke made the bricks that made Cape Girardeau (6/20/17)
- A house that looked the same front and back (6/13/17)4
- Carnegie medal presented twice to Ruby Lindsay Hargis (6/6/17)1
- The sacrifice of brothers Roland and Elwin Busch (5/30/17)
- A 1918 fire consumed second Elmwood Manor (5/23/17)
- War increased demand for photos (5/16/17)
- The death of Judge Benjamin Franklin Davis (5/9/17)
- Carroll house razed in 1941 for A&P store (5/2/17)1
- 'James' Laskaris and the Coney Island (4/25/17)
- Cape's bicycle track had a short run (4/18/17)
- Sodality pre-dates establishment of church (4/11/17)
- Carl Wielpuetz declares himself a loyal American (4/4/17)1
- A second castle in Cape Girardeau (3/28/17)2
- Old federal building demolished 50 years ago (3/21/17)1
- Matilda Rodney Block: "Her kindness to the needy was boundless" (3/14/17)3
- Indian Park marker dedicated (3/7/17)
- Ever hear of the Coffee Drinkers Friendship Club? (2/28/17)1
- Civil War executions (2/21/17)1
- Host of new regulations, programs followed Pearl Harbor attack (2/14/17)
- Lealon Jones' first book (2/7/17)1
- Charles W. Stehr (1/31/17)
- Chero-Cola: "A tasty beverage..." (1/24/17)1
- The complicated history of the Orpheum Theater (1/17/17)
- Himmelberger house damaged in fire (1/10/17)1
- Old Lorimier home to Scripps marker (1/3/17)
- A trapper's story (12/27/16)1
- Christmases past (12/20/16)1
- Local reaction to Pearl Harbor attack (12/13/16)
- The world changed Dec. 7, 1941 (12/6/16)
- Odd little items make up this blog (11/29/16)
- Cape Rock artist died in 1941 (11/22/16)1
- 20th anniversary of May Greene School (11/15/16)
- Cape Girardeau once had a paint factory (11/8/16)
- Coerver house becomes surgical hospital (11/1/16)2
- Brown mansion destroyed in 1916 (10/25/16)1
- Red granite church dedicated in 1941 (10/18/16)
- Navy Days brought LST to Cape Girardeau in 1945 (10/11/16)
- Sorghum making a fall tradition (10/4/16)
- Commerce lad survived the wreck of the USS Memphis (9/27/16)
- St. Mary's makeover that never was (9/20/16)
- A few of Frony's '41 fair photos (9/13/16)
- 1951 train derailment in Cape Girardeau (9/6/16)
- 1960 map illustrated early history of park area (8/30/16)
- Sky dancers thrilled Cape Girardeau crowd (8/23/16)
- Controversy accompanied construction of Naval Reserve building in Cape Girardeau (8/16/16)
- Bergmann-Bartels dissolved partnership in 1916 (8/9/16)1
- Fiberglass giant has been gone 25 years (8/2/16)1
- The disappearance of Roy E. Schneider (7/26/16)1
- 1966 hangar fire (7/19/16)
- Jumbo's fate (7/12/16)2
- 1916 brought Cape a motorized fire department (7/5/16)1
- Remembering Alex and Joe (6/28/16)
- A few more stand-alone photos (6/21/16)
- The sinkings of the Golden Eagle (6/14/16)
- Filming the 'Blues' in Cape Girardeau (6/7/16)
- The boys in Dr. Schuchert's band (5/31/16)1
- Remembering Tony Rubich (5/24/16)
- Courthouse makeover suggested (5/17/16)
- Remembering Joe Woods (5/10/16)
- Fornfelt students go on strike (5/3/16)
- D.A.R. stone also marks Lorimier's Red House (4/26/16)
- Stand-alone photos can fill a blog (4/19/16)
- 8,000 people turned out for Hotel Marquette opening (4/11/16)1
- D.A.R. marks the King's Highway (4/5/16)2
- City buses began rolling in Cape Girardeau in 1941 (3/29/16)1
- Quality Corner recreated itself from the ashes of 1916 fire (3/22/16)
- Three big buildings destroyed in 1916 conflagration (3/15/16)2
- Sabin polio vaccine introduced here on day of tragedy (3/8/16)1
- Ellen Wright home (3/1/16)1
- Bones removed from creek-side grave (2/23/16)1
- Frony reminisces (2/16/16)1
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Appleton revisited (2/9/16)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Appleton (2/2/16)1
- 'Mother' Kelly raises 13 orphan children (1/26/16)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: More about Daisy (1/19/16)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Beautiful Town of Daisy (1/12/16)
- Cape County volunteers prepared for war (1/5/16)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: The hustling town of Gordonville revisited (12/29/15)
- Letters to Santa were all the rage once (12/22/15)1
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Gordonville's roller mills (12/15/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Hustling town of Gordonville (12/8/15)
- Nellie Holcomb was a hero (12/1/15)
- Grave digger runs afoul of the law (11/24/15)2
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Oak Ridge (11/17/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: The peaceful town of Friedheim (11/10/15)
- Daume brothers of Cape County (11/3/15)
- Yes, it's Halloween time again (10/27/15)2
- 'Peanuts' a part of Missourian readers' lives for 50 years (10/20/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Pocahontas businesses 2 (10/13/15)1
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Pocahontas businesses 1 (10/6/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: The bustling town of Pocahontas (9/29/15)
- Standalone photos (9/22/15)2
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Neelys Landing (9/15/15)
- Tippie S. Hawkins and her renowned jurist husband (9/8/15)2
- Local high schools mark anniversaries (9/1/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: New Wells was the home of Cotner & Schuppan store (8/25/15)
- 35 years later, and we still don't know what this is (8/18/15)3
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Crites & Keller Mercantile in Dutchtown (8/11/15)1
- 10th Anniversary Edition: All about Burfordville (8/4/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: J.A. Withers' Distillery, Allenville, Mo. (7/28/15)2
- Items from my 'Boys Will Be Boys' file (7/21/15)3
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Allenville, Mo. (7/14/15)
- Ollie Amick's tribute to WWII soldier (7/7/15)1
- 10th Anniversary Edition: More about Whitewater (6/30/15)1
- Charles W. Armgardt, 1868-1946 (6/23/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: The town of Whitewater (6/16/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Cape County Milling Co. (6/9/15)2
- 10th Anniversary Edition: The history of Jackson (6/2/15)
- John Randolph: Proud of the Cape FD uniform (5/26/15)
- Survivors remember 1949 escape (5/19/15)1
- Golden wedding anniversaries in the Stehr clan (5/12/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: A lumber yard, a mercantile and a meat market (5/5/15)1
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Jackson's Central Hotel (4/28/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Miscellaneous bios (4/21/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Exchange Bank of Jackson (4/14/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Jackson newspapers, churches (4/7/15)2
- A snowy Easter in 1940 (3/31/15)
- 10th Anniversary Edition: Wessell's Furniture Co. (3/24/15)
- A glimpse of Cape County in 1915 (3/17/15)
- Cape hotrod took home first-place trophy (3/10/15)2
- Cape Rock painted pink (3/3/15)
- John G. Putz, historian and poet (2/26/15)
- The forgotten La Mascot (2/19/15)1
- Valet Laundry was owned by an optimist (2/12/15)
- Photo recalls 1922 Sulphur Springs train wreck (2/5/15)1
- Boxing inaugurates Arena Building (1/29/15)
- We all scream for ice cream (1/22/15)2
- Longtime employees retire from newspaper (1/15/15)2
- Mules for E.P. Coleman (1/8/15)3
- The long life and death of George Washington Davis (1/1/15)2
- Cape's first muny Christmas tree celebration held 100 years ago (12/25/14)1
- Items from a 1939 edition (12/18/14)3
- The Warsaw, the Gladys and the A.C. Jaynes: Ferry service in Cape Girardeau (12/11/14)4
- Clemens remade the Renaissance building (12/4/14)2
- Mystery of the Missing Bell solved (11/27/14)4
- From reading room to public library (11/20/14)2
- Bus serves as camper for Jackson family (11/13/14)
- The indomitable Sadie Kent (11/6/14)1
- A few odd clips (10/30/14)
- Chief Lewis reflects on fire department career (10/23/14)
- Pirates win diamond glory in 1964 (10/16/14)
- Wills shed light on slavery (10/9/14)1
- Old Bethel records preserved in 1939 (10/2/14)1
- Cemetery oddities (9/25/14)3
- Brooks house razed in 1939 (9/18/14)1
- Civil War casualty list (9/11/14)
- Correcting a 54-year-old mistake... again (9/4/14)
- Combined fire/police station rejected by voters (8/28/14)
- Find your Union vet's name on this list (8/21/14)1
- Legion posts honor fallen heroes (8/14/14)2
- Frony's first business column (8/7/14)1
- Centennial of the Great War (7/31/14)2
- Local departments buy Tommy guns (7/24/14)1
- 1939 wheat harvest (7/17/14)1
- Celebrating Missouri's sesquicentennial (7/10/14)1
- Trace your family tree; you may find a Revolutionary War hero (7/3/14)1
- Farmer Heuer moves a bridge (6/26/14)1
- Broadway mill burned 100 years ago (6/19/14)
- Items from a 1964 newspaper (6/12/14)2
- D-Day: '... A nightmare played in color -- olive drab and red' (6/5/14)
- Decoration Day (5/29/14)
- Cape construction, 1940s (5/22/14)
- Cape construction, 1930s (5/15/14)
- Cape construction, 1920s (5/8/14)
- Meet the Rev. Martin Scherer, New Hamburg pastor 31 years (5/1/14)
- Meet Dr. H.L. Cunningham, oculist (4/24/14)2
- Cape County's Anti-Horsethief Association (4/17/14)
- Celebrating Jackson's bicentennial (4/10/14)
- A whole lot of history at Main and Themis (4/3/14)4
- The Good Friday Earthquake remembered (3/27/14)1
- Meet Gottfried Hartung, gun- and locksmith (3/20/14)3
- Cape Girardeau's orphans home (3/13/14)3
- Bill Upton pitched in the Majors (3/6/14)1
- Centenary UMC burned a century ago (2/27/14)
- Samuel A. Martin: A veteran of four wars (2/20/14)1
- Riding the Mississippi in a No. 2 wash tub (2/13/14)
- 58 years of wedded bliss (2/6/14)
- Plans for Meyer-Albert building announced in 1914 (1/30/14)3
- Bill Wilferth served Cape schools for 31 years (1/23/14)1
- Cape's ice-skating tradition (1/16/14)3
- The talented Keys family (1/9/14)
- St. Mary's to take on more traditional look (1/2/14)4
- A few 1913 ads (12/26/13)4
- Gobbler makes a break for it (12/19/13)
- Ma Kopper retires (12/12/13)5
- Mausoleum honors Peironnet family (12/5/13)
- Remembering the Trail of Tears (11/28/13)1
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (11/21/13)1
- Cat mascot brings Indians luck (11/14/13)
- Boys will be boys, and other mischief (11/7/13)4
- Cape County haunting (10/31/13)5
- Uncle Andy's great adventure (10/24/13)3
- Bock receives medal at last (10/17/13)1
- Dr. Blomeyer's White Steamer and the trouble it caused (10/10/13)1
- Cleaning up Cape in 1913 (10/3/13)4
- Industrial Supplement, Part 11: The End (9/26/13)1
- Industrial Supplement, Part 10: Cape Girardeau's newest homes (9/19/13)3
- Industrial Supplement, Part 9: Haarig and the West End (9/12/13)4
- Industrial Supplement, Part 8: The smelter and the boulevard (9/5/13)5
- Industrial Supplement, Part 7: Important Cape happenings of 1907 (8/29/13)1
- Industrial Supplement, Part 6: Cape's future (8/22/13)
- Industrial Supplement, Part 5: The Normal (8/15/13)
- Industrial Supplement, Part 4: Broadway pics (8/8/13)
- Industrial Supplement, Part 3 (8/1/13)1
- Industrial Supplement, Part 2 (7/25/13)
- Industrial supplement illustrates 1907 Cape Girardeau (7/18/13)1
- Beating the heat before AC (7/11/13)1
- Freedom Corner a reminder of the price of liberty (7/4/13)2
- Veterans gather at Gettysburg (6/27/13)
- Cape's first house of worship (6/20/13)3
- The final resting place of Sen. Lewis F. Linn (6/13/13)
- Look-Stein-Smude house razed in 1948 (6/6/13)2
- Uncle, nephew served St. Augustine Parish (5/30/13)1
- Memorial to Alexander Buckner (5/23/13)
- Girardeans mourn with Moore (5/21/13)1
- William Vedder's interesting life (5/16/13)1
- William Vogel was a tinner (5/9/13)
- The death of Wade Anderson (5/2/13)
- His name was Mudd (4/25/13)
- Cape had a shirt factory (4/18/13)1
- Eiseleben Lutheran Church (4/11/13)1
- Smothers Brothers find Cape (4/4/13)
- Changes... sometimes they're good (3/28/13)
- Celebrating Missouri flag centennial (3/21/13)
- Churches rock and roll in '63 quake (3/14/13)
- Gathering & Disseminating News (3/7/13)
- The Art of Printing (2/28/13)2
- Early Cape blacksmiths (2/21/13)4
- 1920: Mr. Roosevelt campaigns in Cape (2/14/13)
- Mrs. Roosevelt speaks (2/7/13)
- Courthouse Park sundial honors William F.D. Batjer (1/31/13)1
- 1937: Massive hunt for man who stole gasoline (1/24/13)
- 1953-54: Can you help ID these Kage School children? (1/17/13)2
- 1912: Famous aviator visits Cape (1/10/13)
- Future 'Past' topics (1/3/13)
- Remembering Robert Sturdivant (12/27/12)2
- Christmas advertising through the years (12/20/12)2
- 1951: Stories from Chief Mills (12/13/12)
- Doughnut Club takes flight (12/6/12)1
- Hunting deer in the 1890s (11/29/12)
- 1899: Turkey trot down Broadway (11/22/12)
- Officer Talley's misfortune (11/15/12)
- Veterans Day marks WWI Armistice (11/8/12)
- Rectory move no cakewalk (11/1/12)1
- Coca-Cola Bottling on West Broadway (10/25/12)6
- Uncle Pete shot the lions (10/18/12)2
- Another look at the Fulton Flash (10/11/12)
- Happy birthday, Southeast Missourian! (10/4/12)3
- Meet the Boss of Quality Corner (9/27/12)2
- Cape treasure unearthed (9/20/12)
- 'Arabian Nights' thrills Cape audiences (9/13/12)1
- New Lorimier School opened 75 years ago (9/6/12)1
- 3 police chiefs in one year (8/30/12)1
- Uncle Sam called John Brown in 1917 (8/23/12)1
- Olympic stars visit Cape (8/16/12)1
- Puzzling out the Kiel/Daues connection (8/9/12)1
- Identity of Civil War vet revealed (8/2/12)1
- Listing Cape's school superintendents (7/26/12)3
- Preserving Fort A (7/19/12)2
- Cape's own movie (7/12/12)8
- Independence Day thoughts (7/5/12)
- Local Scouts attended first national jamboree (6/28/12)1
- Sugar Creek Creamery (6/21/12)2
- Fire destroys Cape Cut Rate, Cape Hotel (6/14/12)2
- The Lighthall Indian Sanitarium (6/7/12)1
- 3 honored as 'presidents emeritus' of Southeast (5/31/12)
- Gator hunting in Cape Girardeau (5/24/12)2
- Old ads of interest (5/17/12)2
- Mother's Day roses (5/10/12)2
- Broadway corner site of numerous businesses (5/1/12)2
- The Normal before the fire (4/26/12)2
- March Madness circa 1937 (4/19/12)
- Cape landmark burned in 1902 (4/12/12)
- George and Virginia Alt throw a party (4/5/12)1
- Alt home became Trinity Hall (3/29/12)2
- City's namesake sank in 1967 (3/22/12)
- Quince Gray was Cape's first uniformed police officer (3/15/12)
- Broadway building housed bakeries almost 50 years (3/8/12)
- More about pioneer Cape stores (3/1/12)1
- Doyle's Hat Shop closed after 101 years in business (2/23/12)2
- Ruehmann building on North Main destroyed by fire in 1930 (2/16/12)
- A review of Cape Girardeau's pioneer stores (2/9/12)1
- Preserving Cape Rock (2/2/12)4
- Fr. Murtaugh: 'A friend upon whom we could rely' (1/26/12)1
- Who doesn't like an animal tale? (1/19/12)1
- Missourian features century farms (1/12/12)1
- A visit by Carry Nation (1/5/12)3
- Christmas basketball tourney introduced in 1945 (12/29/11)
- My Christmas gift to you (12/22/11)2
- A man of mystery (12/15/11)1
- Lloyd Dale Clippard (12/8/11)3
- Dutchtown's Catholic church (12/1/11)1
- Moving Thanksgiving (11/24/11)1
- Mapping the 'white way' revisited (11/17/11)2
- Comrades in arms (11/10/11)1
- Themis Street house being remade (11/3/11)1
- Mapping the original 'white way' (10/27/11)1
- Old school saved by doctors (10/20/11)4
- House takes bumpy ride (10/13/11)
- Happy birthday, Dad (10/6/11)5
- 'Pop" Stacy (9/29/11)3
- Honoring Richard Wilson (9/22/11)1
- Castro in Cape (9/14/11)3