
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.
-
From the archive: Honoring a hero
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished Nov. 14, 1994, in the Southeast Missourian: Stafford Moore, left, was honored with an appreciation plaque for heroism by Cape Girardeau Fire Chief Bob Ridgeway at Fire Station No. 1 Tuesday. A former Cape Girardeau firefighter, Moore rescued a man from a burning house. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Colon a winner on and off court
Posted Tuesday, November 26, 2019, at 12:00 AM1Published Nov. 29, 1994, in the Southeast Missourian: Pat Colon, who starred for Southeast from 1982-87, had her jersey retired Monday night. (Christ Stanfield ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Demo man's Last Chance
Posted Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at 12:00 AM1Published in the Southeast Missourian, Oct. 3, 1994: Delmar Cruce used a crowbar to pull down the upper-floor ceiling of the former Last Chance Bar at 903 Broadway. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Clippard kids learn playground lessons
Posted Tuesday, November 12, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished in the Southeast Missourian, Tuesday, October 25, 1994: Boys at Charles C. Clippard Elementary School got together to play with a basketball, including, from left, Jason Mercer, Vitaly Mourazine, T.J. Fort, Thomas Keener and Kris Metje. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Ole Hickory Pits continues to turn out smokers, cookers
Posted Tuesday, November 5, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished in the Southeast Missourian, Monday, October 24, 1994: Terry Emmons, head welder at Ole Hickory Pits, uses a mig welder to weld a fire box for a smoker cooker. (Don Shrubshell ~ Southeast Missouri archive)... -
Bonus blog: Halloween and coffins just seem to go together
Posted Thursday, October 31, 2019, at 12:00 AMThis being Halloween, I thought this odd little story about a glass-lidded coffin might be appropriately weird for the day. It also tweaked my memory about a story from my first year at the Southeast Missourian, and I found the article with little effort. I've removed the names of the university students charged in the case of the purloined prop. No doubt, today they are all three upstanding members of society... -
From the archive: Cotton is big business in Missouri's Bootheel
Posted Tuesday, October 29, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished in the Southeast Missourian, Monday, October 31, 1994: James Griswell of Vanduser waited for a cotton picker to dump a load of cotton onto a trailer destined for the Vanduser Gin Co. It takes ab out four acres of cotton to fill a trailer. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Three generations of Oak Ridge family raise Mo. mules
Posted Tuesday, October 22, 2019, at 12:00 AMA trio of riding mules. (Chris Stanfield - Southeast Missourian archive) (Published in the Southeast Missourian Sept. 1, 1994.)... -
From the archive: Earthquake Anderson breaks Smallwood's rushing record
Posted Tuesday, October 15, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished in the Southeast Missourian, Oct. 15, 1994: Southeast Missouri State's Kelvin "Earthquake" Anderson (29) moves into the end zone on a 66-yard touchdown run against SIU in Carbondale on Sept. 12, 1992. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Dreams came true for Missourian pressman
Posted Tuesday, October 8, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished in the Southeast Missourian, Aug. 30, 1992: Walter Wilson has retired after having a hand in the production of the Southeast Missourian for more than four decades, many of them at the controls of printing presses. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
Bonus blog: Annual Heritage Ball raised money for Glenn House restoration
Posted Thursday, October 3, 2019, at 12:00 AMIn 1968 the Greater Cape Girardeau Historical Association acquired the historic David A. Glenn residence at 325 S. Spanish St., from Robert W. Erlbacher. Plans were made to restore the property to its former glory and open it as a house museum for the city. But to do that, funds were necessary... -
From the archive: Python bites Jackson teacher
Posted Tuesday, October 1, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished in the Southeast Missourian, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1994: Mark Goodwin, left, biology teacher at Jackson High School, watched Amy Doberens practice using a microscope in class. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Kellermans restore historic Fountain Street house
Posted Tuesday, September 24, 2019, at 12:00 AM1Bert and Mary Ann Kellerman relaxed in the living room of their home at 6 S. Fountain, which has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Cape residents stunned by second triple murder in six weeks
Posted Tuesday, September 17, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished in the Southeast Missourian, Sept. 21, 1992: Friends and relatives console Evelyn Harris, above, whose mother, Evelyn Sparks; sister, Bridgette Harris, and nephew, Dontay Harris, were shot to death Sunday morning in Sparks' home at 1117 S. Ranney St. in Cape Girardeau. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
From the archive: Linder Deimund's life on the Mississippi
Posted Tuesday, September 10, 2019, at 12:00 AMPublished Sept. 8, 1983, in the Southeast Missourian: Linder Deimund, who turned 87 today, looks out at the Mississippi River which has played a big part of his life. (Mary L. Spell ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
Segregation and Cape's municipal swimming pool
Posted Tuesday, September 3, 2019, at 12:00 AM2Cape Girardeau's original city swimming pool in Capaha Park was segregated, with whites using the pool six days a week and blacks one. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)... -
Logging in Southeast Missouri, Part 3
Posted Tuesday, August 27, 2019, at 12:00 AMThis week's blog contains the final story in a three-part series on the logging industry in Southeast Missouri in 1944. While the previous articles dealt with the history of logging in the district and the effects of World War II on the industry, the final installment looked to the future timber harvesting in Southeast Missouri... -
Logging in Southeast Missouri, Part 2
Posted Tuesday, August 20, 2019, at 12:00 AMContinuing where we left off in last week's blog, we were discussing the logging industry in Southeast Missouri. This blog contains the second in the three-part series of articles published in 1944 as the war in Europe seemed to be winding down... -
Logging in Southeast Missouri, Part 1
Posted Tuesday, August 13, 2019, at 12:00 AMSeveral years after G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger retired (for the last time) in 1986, he showed up at the Missourian library with several boxes filled with 4-by-5 negatives. A treasure he was gifting the Missourian. Most of the negatives were unlabeled and undated. And Frony didn't have the patience to go through them and help identify them. He had started on a new chapter in his life, and looking at old, dusty negatives wasn't a part of it... -
WWI changed the way we learned, prayed
Posted Tuesday, August 6, 2019, at 12:00 AM3The "No German" hysteria stemming from World War I pressured Fred Kies into changing the name of the Jackson Deutscher Volksfreund newspaper to the Cape County Post in July 1918. (Southeast Missourian archive)...
View all blog posts (433)