- Mayor Ford, Kiwanis light up Capaha Park's diamond (4/16/24)1
- The rise and fall of Capaha Park's wooden grandstand (4/9/24)
- Death of Judge Pat Dyer, prosecutor of the famous peonage case here in 1906 (4/2/24)2
- 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)
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.
More about pioneer Cape stores
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2012, at 12:00 AM
In my last blog I dealt with the history of Doyle's Hat Shop. When it closed in 1960, it was 101 years old. That blog was a continuation of an earlier installment about pioneer retail establishments in Cape Girardeau. Two other longtime stores were mentioned in that 1939 article: Vandeven's Grocery and Hirsch's general store.
While brief histories were given of each, I thought more in-depth articles would be of interest to my readers.
March 27, 1969:
Part 2
G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger announced the closing of Hirsch's in his business column on June 12, 1977, but offered little background. Here's a story that provides a better history of this Haarig mainstay.
Part 2:
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