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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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Riding the Mississippi in a No. 2 wash tub
Posted Thursday, February 13, 2014, at 12:00 AM
My dad, Louis Sanders, used to tell stories from his days as a young man living near Commerce in Scott County, Mo. Frequently, he would refer to the time he saw a man float past that river town in "a No. 2 wash tub."
Despite my best efforts, I never was able to find an article about the mysterious voyager while my dad was living. But I did find it last week in the pages of the Southeast Missourian. Dad would have been 21 the year this happened. He was still living on the family farm with his parents and younger siblings.
Sorry to say, G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger was either out of town or didn't think a man floating down the river in a wash tub was worth his time. There were no photos of the event published in the Missourian. But here are the articles we printed:
Recently I found a story that explains the unhappy ending of Floyd Thompson's voyage.
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