Multi-talented stage actress Grace Hayward was well known to theatergoers of Quincy, Ill., and beyond at the beginning of the 20th Century, as a regular on the traveling stage circuit
Back in the days when steam engines were used to power trains, there was a stretch of Burlington rail in Macon County, Mo., near the Chariton River, where the grade
When 34-year-old Marie Greve married George Rupprecht on June 29, 1904, in Sioux City, Iowa, she was head of the curtain department for the T.S. Martin and Company Store there.
In 1929, Frank B. Clay, 42, a mechanic for the St. Joseph and Hannibal Railroad, saw an opportunity. Automobiles had all but replaced horse power on the roadways, a federal
A single-story frame house, with a porch addition on the front, served as the popular business location for James W. (Jimmie) Link from the late 1940s through 1956. Located at