- 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.
A trapper's story
Posted Tuesday, December 27, 2016, at 12:00 AM
John Ackman, a Cape Girardeau County farmer of the Neelys Landing area, told the story of an old hunter, who taught him how to trap beaver and other varmints. It's an interesting tale, retold in 1940 by Missourian correspondent John Putz, that I thought I would share.
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