Out of the past 5/16/12
(05/16/12)
With the Show Me Center rapidly nearing completion, plans for its formal dedication and a series of special events...
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History quiz Take this week's history quiz. Answers may be found in last week's Out of the Past columns. 
Have a research request or a suggestion?Do you have a research request for Sharon Sanders, or a suggestion for something you'd like to see on this page? If so, email Sharon at ssanders@semissourian.com. Include the nature of your request in the subject line. Out of the Past columns
Out of the past 5/15/12
(05/15/12)
One year after floodwaters ravaged Cape Girardeau, city officials and community leaders are still working to help...
Out of the past 5/14/12
(05/14/12)
River royalty -- the Delta Queen -- was on hand yesterday, along with a crowd of about 200, for the dedication of the...
Out of the past 5/13/12
(05/13/12)
An internal investigation is underway by the Cape Girardeau Police Department to determine how a federal prisoner being...
Out of the past 5/12/12
(05/12/12)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Coast Guard officials say an oil spill of more than 10,000 gallons will cause temporary aesthetic damage...  Obituaries
Florence Bauer OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Florence Opal Martin Bauer, 97, of Olive Branch, formerly of Cairo, Ill., died Monday, May 14,...  Gene Heise Kenneth Gene Heise Sr., 85, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 12, 2012, at his home. He was born Oct. 27, 1926, in...  Ronnie Joyce Ronnie Joe Joyce, 45, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 13, 2012, at his home. He was born July 23, 1966, in Cape...  William Bowers William L. Bowers, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 13, 2012, at the Missouri Veterans Home. He was born July 4,...  Donald Daehnert MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Donald Lee Daehnert, 78, of Marble Hill passed away Saturday, May 12, 2012, at his home. He was...  Nelson Farrow Nelson C. Farrow, 88, of Jackson passed away Sunday, May 13, 2012, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau,...
Ronnie Joyce Ronnie Joe Joyce, 45, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 13, 2012, at his home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m....  Sumantha Nickens Beloved daughter and mother, Sumantha Jeanne Nickens, 29, of Scott City died Sunday, May 13, 2012, at the home of her...  Elizabeth Peters Elizabeth J. Latham Peters, 45, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Mound City, Ill., died Sunday, May 13, 2012, at her...  Laura Rilo Laura W. Rilo, 98, of Jackson passed away Saturday, May 12, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.... |
Today in History
Today in History
(05/16/12)
Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 137th day of 2012. There are 229 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on the eleven articles of impeachment against him...
Today in History
(05/15/12)
Today is Tuesday, May 15, the 136th day of 2012. There are 230 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 15, 1972, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed by Arthur H. Bremer while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination. (Wallace died in 1998; Bremer was released from prison in November 2007 after serving 35 years of a 53-year sentence for attempted murder.)... History in the news 
Town honors Mark Twain Home dedication anniversary
(05/16/12)
HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) -- The northeast Missouri town of Hannibal is celebrating the centennial of the dedication of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home. The famed author and humorist was born in nearby Florida, Mo., but grew up in Hannibal. The Quincy Herald-Whig (http://bit.ly/JsU0KU) reports that his boyhood home was about to be demolished when a wealthy benefactor stepped in to save it, then presented it to the city in a formal dedication on May 12, 1912... 
Downtown residents open their homes for third annual tour
(05/13/12)
 1Six downtown homeowners offered visitors a chance to view diverse and architecturally interesting homes in Cape Girardeau on Saturday afternoon during the third annual Downtown Historic District Home and Garden Tour. The Bertrand House at 306 Independence St. is owned by Dr. Lisa and Charles Bertrand. It was built in 1906. The floors in the living and dining rooms are an unusual wood pattern. The sink in the first-floor bathroom and the light in the family room came from the St. Charles Hotel...
Church organized in 1818 moves
(05/13/12)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A local congregation is celebrating another chapter in its nearly 200 years of history by moving to a new building. Black River Baptist Church was scheduled to host an open house last Sunday, followed by a dedication service with testimonies, hymns and prayer... 
In Egypt turmoil, thieves hunt pharaonic treasures
(05/13/12)
CAIRO -- Taking advantage of Egypt's political upheaval, thieves have gone on a treasure hunt with a spree of illegal digging, preying on the country's ancient pharaonic heritage. Illegal digs near ancient temples and in isolated desert sites have swelled a hundredfold over the past 16 months since a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak's 29-year regime and security fell apart in many areas as police simply stopped doing their jobs. ... 
2 NY sites recall Benedict Arnold's early heroics
(05/11/12)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Benedict Arnold is a hero again, at least temporarily, at two upstate New York historic sites where his pre-treason exploits are being remembered. Arnold's heroic actions in the Revolutionary War's Battles of Saratoga are detailed in a new exhibit opening Thursday at Saratoga National Historical Park, and his capture of British-held Fort Ticonderoga at the side of Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys is being re-staged later this month in a rare nighttime re-enactment.. ... 
Panel discusses AP reporter's WWII surrender scoop
(05/10/12)
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Speakers at a panel on Tuesday disagreed over whether a correspondent for The Associated Press who defied military censors by reporting that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally in World War II had acted properly...
Dred Scott honored at Missouri Capitol ceremony
(05/10/12)
Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Dred Scott, the former slave who sued for his freedom in a St. Louis court and helped galvanize anti-slavery efforts around the nation in the 19th century, was inducted Wednesday into the Hall of Famous Missourians...
Historic Route 66 motel to reopen in Carthage
(05/10/12)
CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) -- Preservationists in southwest Missouri have been hailing plans to reopen part of an iconic Route 66 motel. Deborah Harvey and Priscilla Bledsaw, new owners of the Boots Motel in Carthage, are scheduled to reopen five rooms at the motel Tuesday to coincide with a rally marking the start of summer tourism, according to The Joplin Globe (http://bit.ly/IC0ktv ). They bought the motel last year after the bank foreclosed on it... 
‘Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dead at 83
(05/09/12)
NEW YORK -- Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early Tuesday. He was 83. Longtime friend and caretaker Lynn Caponera said she was with Sendak when he died at a hospital in Danbury, Conn. She said he had a stroke Friday...
Part of Cape Girardeau County railroad line likely to be removed
(05/08/12)
More than 13 miles of disused train tracks between Gordonville and Delta that were part of Southeast Missouri's first rail line are likely to be abandoned and removed, pending federal approval. The Jackson, Gordonville and Delta Railroad Co. is planning to file a notice to abandon the portion of tracks with the U.S. Surface Transportation Board on May 14. Approval is expected within 50 days, based on a rule that allows abandonment after a line has been out of service two years... 
Annual fundraiser held for Oliver House
(05/07/12)
The Jackson Heritage Association welcomed dozens of visitors during its third annual Wine Tasting and Tours fundraiser at the Oliver House Museum in Jackson on Sunday. The Oliver House is a museum decorated in a late 19th-century style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Homes... 
Southeast History Department presents 'Meet Me in 1904'
(05/06/12)
Southeast Missouri State senior Jessica Dickey explains what will happen during the living history performance 'Meet Me in 1904 or A Tale of Victorians Unbound,' Saturday, May 5, at the Glenn House, 325 S. Spanish, in Cape Girardeau. Presented by the Southeast Missouri State History Department students dressed in period costume to give performances examining the role of class, gender, technology, leisure, family in 1904 Victorian era... 
A year later, Gen. Walsh reflects on 'grave' decision to activate floodway
(05/04/12)
It was his call. Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh became a familiar figure in the days leading up to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' activation of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The soggy masses awaited word daily from the silver-haired two-star general who held the fate of communities in a half-dozen states in his hands. ...
Historians develop Civil War tour of New Madrid
(05/04/12)
NEW MADRID, Mo. (AP) -- While the nation commemorates the Civil War battles of Appomattox and Gettysburg, and of Bull Run and Shiloh, one of the key battles in the western theater of the War Between the States was fought at New Madrid. Local historians want the public to know there is a lot to learn about the war and those who fought in it in New Madrid... 
Flood of 2011 anniversary: Flood's scars remain a year later
(05/02/12)
1Randy Sutton had heard that the three-star general with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had officially made the decision. He had seen the Missouri National Guard trucks roll through, ordering everyone from their homes. And now, the Mississippi County farmer was along a dark rainy roadway with everyone else awaiting the blast... 
Old Franklin school to be torn down in June; new one opens in August
(05/01/12)
4In 1931, Cape Girardeau's school board chairman called the still-new brick two-story school on Louisiana Street the "show house of the city's public school system." The board pinched money to provide it for the community, according to a newspaper article from the time, when Albert M. Spradling addressed the need to expand the school after just a few years since its doors opened in 1927... 
Flood of 2011 anniversary: Some farmers still counting what flood cost them
(04/29/12)
Farmers feared the worst as water rushed over fields of winter wheat, filled silos storing their profits and engulfed the houses they called home. A year after the intentional breach of the Birds Point levee by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, fourth generation floodway farmer Eddie Marshall is still repairing the damage and counting what the breach cost him... 
Old Town Cape to host historic home and garden tour
(04/29/12)
Old Town Cape will showcase downtown living during its third annual Downtown Historic Home and Garden Tour. The tour, which will feature six homes, will be from noon to 4 p.m. May 12. "It's a service for people to enjoy our downtown and to promote downtown living," event organizer and Old Town Cape volunteer Lisa Bertrand said... 
Flood of 2011 anniversary: Limbaugh: Corps had law on its side in levee breach
(04/27/12)
3It is still the biggest case that has been heard in the new federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau. The corridors and courtrooms were filled April 28, 2011, with contingents from Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky arguing that steps should be taken to protect their land and livelihoods while, outside, record flooding threatened, inch by inch, to wipe out residents along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers...
SEMO Students Create Exhibit on Local History
(04/27/12)
Under the direction of Dr. Eric Clements, Professor of History at Southeast Missouri State University, graduate and undergraduate students are designing and installing exhibits on Cape Girardeau's history at the Cape River Heritage Museum, 538 Independence. ... |
Have a historical photo to share?If you have a historical photo of something in Southeast Missouri, we'd love to see it. Submit your photo by clicking below. Missourian timeline  The Southeast Missourian newspaper celebrated its centennial in 2004, publishing a timeline of its history. This is an updated version of that timeline.... Photo galleries 
Mystery photo gallery #6Do you like old photographs? Take a look at these images captured by longtime Missourian photographer G.D. Fronabarger. If you can identify any of them, drop a note to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com. 
Downtown Historic Home & Garden TourOld Town Cape's third annual Downtown Historic Home & Garden Tour Saturday, May 12, 2012 in Cape Girardeau. 
Mystery photo gallery #5We need your help to identify some old photographs that G.D. Fronabarger took. His organizational skills left much to be desired, and we are left with a lot of unanswered questions. If you spot something you recognize in this gallery, contact library Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com and earn her undying gratitude. 
Mystery photo gallery #4This week's historic mystery photo gallery features floats and follies, drinks and doll houses. If you recognize a face or can date an event, drop librarian Sharon Sanders a note at ssanders@semissourian.com. 
Mystery photo gallery #3Longtime Missourian employee G.D. Fronabarger photographed everything from kite festivals to picnics during his tenure with the newspaper. See if you can identify any of the images in this gallery. If you can supply any information about the photos, drop a note to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com. 
Mystery photo gallery #2More mysteries await in this, our second mystery photo gallery. All of the images were taken by longtime photographer G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger, but none are dated or identified. If you can supply any information about the images, drop a note to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com. 
Mystery photo gallery #1The Southeast Missourian archive is home to thousands of images that chronicle the history of the Cape Girardeau area. Each week we'll feature a gallery of historic photos for your enjoyment. In this first gallery, we've gathered a number of unidentified pictures made by longtime photographer G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger. If you can help identify any of the images, drop a note to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com 
John Glenn orbits Earth 50 years agoAstronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth in the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft on Feb. 20, 1962. Twenty years later, U.S. Sen. John Glenn appears in Sikeston, Mo. on behalf of Jerry Ford of Cape Girardeau, 8th District Democratic candidate. 
Remembering 9/11Ceremonies in Cape Girardeau and Jackson Sept. 11, 2011 commemorated the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States. 
9/11 in Southeast MissouriSoutheast Missourian photographers captured the local scene on 9/11 and the following days. 
9/11 Then and NowThese Associated Press photos show the before and after of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York City. 
Downtown Cape Girardeau clock turns 25People come out to celebrate the clock at the intersection of Themis and Main streets 25th birthday Tuesday, June 28, 2011 in downtown Cape Girardeau. A custom birthday hat sat atop the clock as people listened to tunes from the Jerry Ford Band, munched on hot dogs and cupcakes and sang "Happy Birthday" to the clock. 
A vacant Pinhook, Mo.Floodwater from the breached Birds Point levee has left the town of Pinhook, Mo. void of residents as seen on Thursday, June 16, 2011. 
Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway after the breachThe waters in the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway are receding, leaving behind a desolate Mississippi County landscape as seen on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. 
Steam locomotive in Cape GirardeauTrain fans get up close to Union Pacific's steam locomotive No. 844 on display Sunday, June 5, 2011 in Cape Girardeau. 
Railroads historical galleryRailroads have played a role in the history of Cape Girardeau. Here is a collection of photos from the history of rail travel in the area, taken from the Southeast Missourian archives. 
Rural Schools historical galleryRural schools in the surrounding Cape Girardeau area. Most of the buildings no longer exist. 
Racing historical galleryRacing of all kinds has always been popular in Cape Girardeau. Here are photos of boat races, horse races, car races and other types of races that took place in Cape Girardeau over the years. 
Memorial Day historical galleryMemorial Day was originally called Decoration Day. The holiday grew out of the tradition of decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. In Cape Girardeau, early observances included musical programs and patriotic speeches conducted in the shade of the Courthouse Park. Those in attendance would then parade to Old Lorimier Cemetery, where veterans' graves would be cleaned and decorated with flowers and flags. 
Flash Flooding in Cape GirardeauMajor flooding occurred along Cape LaCroix Creek in the Town Plaza area of Cape Girardeau after more than six inches of rain fell on May 15, 1986. 
Cape Girardeau aerials historical galleryGarland D. "Frony" Fronabarger took hundreds of aerial photos of Cape Girardeau during his tenure as the Southeast Missourian's photographer. Fronabarger joined the newspaper in 1927 and retired in 1986. Staff members have chosen a few to share. |
