Otis Howell won top MPA photography awards in 1961
Otis Howell, photographer for the Hannibal Courier-Post, won high honors in the Missouri Press Association’s 1961 Better Newspaper...
1933: J.B. Jeffries dies at Hannibal, was noted publisher
Prominent Editor had been GOP leader and civil worker Jefferson City Post-Tribune Dec. 4, 1933 Stricken at dinner, he failed to rally...
1952: Rhino retires, with Courier-Post 46 years
June 26, 1952 Delmer W. Rhino, 828 Bird Street, a printer for 60 years, with 46 years' service in the composing room of the...
1884: Coroner Evans Fritz investigates pool hall death at 'Stringtown'
Evans Fritz, the first in succession of undertakers in the Smith Funeral Home & Chapel lineage, was coroner in January 1884, and was...
Two long-ago South Main Street business families unite as one
Brian Montgomery, great-great grandson of Thomas Robinson, co-owner of Robinson Bros. Paint and Wallpaper Co., 119 S. Main in 1920)...
1940s: Smith’s Funeral Home provided ambulance and transport service
Jack Kretzer of Yuma, Ariz., formerly of Hannibal, called with a memory about Smith Funeral Home, which is featured today on this...
Crawford Smith: Mid 1950s
Clarence Schaffer, who operated Schaffer's Smoke House in the 300 block of Broadway for more than 30 years, created a sketch collection...
Robert Curts, a noted Hannibal businessman and entrepreneur
Robert A. Curts, in a photo accompanying his biography in "Mirror of Hannibal." Note that his teeth are visible when he's smiling....
Available for rent: Suitable carriages
1881: Jordan & Nelson (Harvel Jordan & Jas A. Nelson), livery, sale and feed stables, 4th, Between Broadway and Church. This photo, part...
From steamboat and early railroad days, undertaking legacy continues
Smith Funeral Home on Broadway, Hannibal, 1953. The home was located directly to the east of the Marion County Courthouse at Hannibal....