Prohibition makes an early appearance in Cape Girardeau
The Haas Brothers Saloon was located in Haarig at 637 Good Hope St. (Courtesy of River Heritage Museum; Southeast Missourian archive) We're all familiar with the history of national Prohibition in the...
View ArticleHonoring Revolutionary War patriot Uriah Brock
Twenty-five years ago, the grave of the only known Revolutionary War soldier buried in Old Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau was marked with a new military stone thanks to the efforts of former city...
View ArticleHouck votes against women's suffrage
Major Giboney Houck (from "Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1919-1920") Major Giboney Houck was the only son of prominent Cape Girardeans Louis and Mary Hunter Giboney Houck. An attorney by...
View ArticleJackson man witnessed circus disaster
On July 5, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, the worst fires in circus history struck the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, killing more than 150 people. Among those who witnessed the blaze...
View ArticleWatch your language on the phone
As a child, I can remember listening to my mother speaking on the telephone. I wasn't eavesdropping exactly. I couldn't. I didn't understand German, and that's the language Mom typically used when...
View ArticleFarmers Mutual Telephone Co. survived 1919 spat
In last week's blog, I discussed how speaking the German language over the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company's line in Pocahontas caused a huge spat. It seems that in 1919 some subscribers who used...
View ArticleWWI changed the way we learned, prayed
The "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...
View ArticleLogging in Southeast Missouri, Part 1
Several 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...
View ArticleLogging in Southeast Missouri, Part 2
Continuing 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...
View ArticleLogging in Southeast Missouri, Part 3
This 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...
View ArticleSegregation and Cape's municipal swimming pool
Cape 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) Some years ago,...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Linder Deimund's life on the Mississippi
Published 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...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Cape residents stunned by second triple murder in six weeks
Published 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...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Kellermans restore historic Fountain Street house
Bert 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)...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Python bites Jackson teacher
Published 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 ~...
View ArticleBonus blog: Annual Heritage Ball raised money for Glenn House restoration
In 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...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Dreams came true for Missourian pressman
Published 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...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Earthquake Anderson breaks Smallwood's rushing record
Published 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....
View ArticleFrom the archive: Three generations of Oak Ridge family raise Mo. mules
A trio of riding mules. (Chris Stanfield - Southeast Missourian archive) (Published in the Southeast Missourian Sept. 1, 1994.) Missouri mules: Oak Ridge family dead-set on them for three generations...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Cotton is big business in Missouri's Bootheel
Published 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...
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