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This story was published in the Hannibal, Missouri, Courier-Post on Aug. 22, 1979. Marble champion Adair Holliday posed for a portrait in...

Ethelbert Baier is pictured in the Boston Globe on April 16, 1911. He was a candidate for police commissioner. newspapers.com This...

Linda Ham Thompson shared this photo of the Hannibal Police Department, circa 1904. John H. Totsch, who served most of his career in...

MARY LOU MONTGOMERY Hannibal Courier-Post Archives Sept. 25, 2010 The Midwesterners, a Hannibal band, play on a WTAD radio program...

J.T. O’Connor, pictured front row, third from the left, (with the beard) was city marshal when this picture of members of the Hannibal...

This undated Hannibal (Mo.) Courier-Post photo shows demolition in progress of the historic “Green House” which was located on the west...

Advertisement promoting Hannibal College, under the leadership of Rev. Leo Bailer. Hannibal Clipper Aug. 24, 1875. Accessed via the...

MARY LOU MONTGOMERY Imagine this scene from Monday, January 21, 1901: Six friends from Hannibal’s high school, now in their early 40s,...

This advertisement from the Missouri Courier newspaper dates R.D. Brewington’s business presence in Hannibal to Jan. 1, 1852. Source:...

Shelton R. Lowman is pictured with a bull on his farm south of Bixby circa 1940. Lowman was kicked by a bull in 1941, and died of...