The Aug. 23, 1925, Quincy Daily Herald announced the launch of a statewide campaign by Illinois Gove. Len Small for the control and extermination of the pasture weed, White Snakeroot.
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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
Long before there was train service between Hannibal and St. Joseph. Long before the city of Hannibal had its first steam-powered fire engine. Long before budding writer Sam Clemens left
When Bettie (Williams Doxey) Whisler boarded one of the two Quincy, Ill.-bound steamboats docked along Hannibal’s riverfront following the fireworks display on July 4, 1902, she carried with her a