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Simultaneously published in the Hannibal Courier-Post December 19, 2015 An iron molder by trade, Arch Little made a name for himself...

Jack Kretzer of Yuma, Ariz., shared this photo of his second or third grade class at Mark Twain School in Hannibal, Mo. He said that Mrs....

Pictured are members of the Hannibal Rotary Club in 1969-70. Seated, front row, H.A. Scheidker, W.W. McMein, H.G. Reidel, D.H. Hafner,...

James William Little spent the better part of a century in Marion County, Missouri. When he died in 1938, his passing was noted in a...

Turner School students, Marion County, Mo., April 18, 1922. Students posed in front of the new flag. Back row, from left, Ruth Petrie,...

The Turner School picnic and fish fry was held Labor Day 1927 on the Boetjer farm on West Ely Road near Hannibal, Mo. There was a large...

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The dotted lines on this January 1928 map represent gravel portions of Highway 36 across Missouri. Solid lines show what portion of the...

This photo of the Fall Creek, Ill., depot was taken looking south so the line diverging to the right was the extension over to East...