Down on the farm near Perry
Elden and Dorothy Larson of near Perry, Mo., were featured on the agriculture page in the Hannibal Courier-Post on Aug. 23, 1950. They...
Weldon Ross: Child of the Depression; dairyman of the future
The Weldon Ross family as they posed for a picture in the front yard of their home in the summer of 1950. Seated on the ground are...
James William Little: In 1915, foreman of sack house at Ilasco cement plant
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...
Meet former Hannibal area nurseryman
Meet Simon F. Taft, who operated the North Missouri Nursery near Hannibal in in 1874. The Sept. 30, 1874 edition of the Hannibal Daily...
Cutting a white pine cant into two 4x8s
Brad Tutor of rural New London, Mo., uses his grandfather's vintage 1930s-era sawmill to cut a white pine cant into two 4x8s.
Tutor family milling legacy continues through the generations
Jim Tutor, left, removes the cut lumber from the conveyor, after his son, Brad, right, cuts side lumber from a white pine log. Brad is a...
In 2012, Ralls County farmer sold portion of vast John Deere tractor collection
Editor's note: In February 2012, I spent an afternoon with Russ Alexander, who was preparing for an auction to sell off a number of his...
Where was New London's founder William Marshall Jamison buried?
Mike Egloff wrote to me asking about the abandoned New London Cemetery story and Lynne McGee Tutor's research. He wrote: I am a direct...
Stones serve as a reminder of nearly forgotten cemetery
Lynne McGee Tutor looks over document copies regarding the old New London Cemetery. While long abandoned, she hopes to arrange for the...