With the growth of auto sales, a support industry evolved: Scyoc Battery, Electric Co.
Scyoc Tire and Battery, pictured by Otis Howell of the Hannibal Courier-Post in January 1950, located on the corner of Broadway and...
Scyoc (Melpontian) Hall played important role in Hannibal’s past
David R. Scyoc operated Farmers’ Custom Mill and the D.R. Scyoc grocery store in this building located at 200-206 North Third Street,...
A drive to Oklahoma in 1927, without a single tire puncture
The McClelland-Gentry Motor Co., Oklahoma City, Okla., offered this Chrysler touring car for sale via an advertisement in the Jan. 4,...
Death claims life of city clerk during 1929 Hannibal city council meet
The interior of the Wilhelm and Strode grocery store, 1300 Market St., is shown circa 1914. Steve Chou collection. MARY LOU MONTGOMERY...
Julia M. Bennett led way for women in journalism
Mrs. Julia M. Bennett, St. Louis Globe Democrat, 1915. Contributed by Mitchell E. Bennett. Archie Hayden shares this image of the M.K. &...
W.Va. native managed town’s 1st street railway
A horse-drawn streetcar is shown at the junction of Broadway and Market streets, Hannibal, Mo. The first street railway service began in...
P.W. Hawes found coal business both lucrative and challenging
This photo is identified in the “Story of Hannibal” by J. Hurley and Roberta Roland Hagood as taken during the Hannibal flood in 1903....
Roy P. Schwartz built lasting mortuary legacy
Roy P. Schwartz, as pictured in the 1912 Hannibal (Mo.) High School yearbook. Steve Chou collection. MARY LOU MONTGOMERY Just one week...
The rise and fall: Bank of Oakwood
Ed. H. Wilson served as cashier and secretary for the Bank of Oakwood, and later as special deputy commissioner for the state of...
Hannibal Stockyards: Where Texas longhorns grazed en route to market
Archie Hayden, a railroad aficionado, shares this photo of a lock used at the Hannibal stockyards during the late 19th Century. MARY LOU...