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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.
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1899: Turkey trot down Broadway
Posted Thursday, November 22, 2012, at 12:00 AM
This will be a short blog. After all, I'm sure everyone is anxious to start gobbling up that Thanksgiving Day dinner.
The late B.W. Harrison brought me this photograph in 1992, when the newspaper was gathering pictures for its long-out-of-print pictorial, "Images of the Past in the City of Roses." He made sure I credited his late wife, Hazel Huhn Harrison, as the owner of picture.
The writing on the photo reads, "761 turkeys," and it was obviously taken on Cape Girardeau's riverfront. Little else was known.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I finally put a date to the picture. While doing research in the Cape Girardeau Democrat, a weekly newspaper here from the late 1800s to 1909, I found this this front-page story in the Nov. 11, 1899, edition:
Here's hoping all my readers have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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