Night-blooming flower draws attention during river voyage
A night-blooming cereus in full bloom. Wikipedia. MARY LOU MONTGOMERY When Bettie (Williams Doxey) Whisler boarded one of the two Quincy,...
Main St., flames spark fire department’s birth
Shown above is one of Hannibal’s early fire fighting crews, circa 1877-79. They are, front row, left to right, Oliver Beach, J.C....
Annie Hall Gosnell’s legacy lingers on Lindell, Market
Pete Hall, at left, stands with his young daughter, Geraldine Hall, circa 1908. The man in the doorway is William Hall, and the man in...
Long-time Market St. butcher became bank president in 1890
This undated sketch of the American Trust Company bank at 135 Market Street is taken from a matchbook cover in Steve Chou’s collection....
Vaudeville actor with Hannibal ties eye witness to famed ’06 SF murder
Lem Welch was pictured in the Oct. 7, 1906 edition of the San Francisco Call newspaper, as an eye witness to an historical bank robbery...
60 years, Turner family lived, worked along Market Street
Ras and Cleve Turner operated Turner Bro’s Grocery beginning at the end of the first decade of the 20th Century. The store was located at...
Tragedy follows Hannibal’s 1902 July 4th celebration
Illustration shows Uncle Sam, holding a firecracker, trying to reassure a concerned-looking female figure with wings and wearing a gown...
Despite warning to ‘Stay in Mo.,’ gold seekers head to Colorado
Markings on this photo identify Daniel H. Ashmore, as the driver of this one horse carriage. In the late 1890s, before leaving Marion...
Meat packers adapt as new processing procedures evolve
Glenn (Woody) Ewing, left, and Max Sonis, right, pose behind the meat counter of the Sonis Meat Market, 623 Broadway, Hannibal, circa...
Toncray’s riverfront hotel early Hannibal landmark
This is an illustration showing trains and steamboats at Hannibal, Missouri. The illustration appears in The Great South-West, June 1874....