Booklet from the 31st Annual Oak Ridge Farmer’s Institute in Oak Ridge, [Mo]. Booklet lists schedules of events, rules, and advertisements.

Program from dinner honoring company’s 50th anniversary and the Cape Girardeau Sesquicentennial, May 8, 1956 Lists company executives.

Harbinger was a monthly magazine published by the Missouri Division of Commerce and Industrial Development. This issue, Volume II, Number 6, has articles on Cape Girardeau (pgs 14-31), discussing the city, industry, and the arts.

Four holograph, signed poems by Foard including “Alma Mater of the Doniphan [Mo] High School, 1925,” as well as carbon typescript of “Commemoration Ode” by Foard written in honor of Southeast Missouri State Teachers College Diamond Jubilee celebration.

Typed manuscript (1p) on “The Early Telegraph in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,” by Dillon, chronicling the history of the first telegraph lines running between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis in 1850, the impact of the American Civil War, and line construction by the Western Union Telegraph Company in the 1870's.

Advertisement for the Cape Girardeau Business College discussing its location, history and curriculum.

Ordinance No. 930 (22p) regarding a contract dispute between the city and the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company over maintenance and operation of tracks and depots.

Bound and illustrated reports (47p) prepared by the highway department proposing a system of highways in Cape Girardeau to relieve traffic congestion and expedite traffic flow.

Illustrated pamphlet advertising the services offered at Simpson’s Colonial Tavern, a service station and restaurant that opened in the 1940s in Cape Girardeau.

Photocopied typed manuscript (80p) of reminiscences of Southeast Missouri railroad entrepreneur, Houck. Original owned by Andy and Jeanette Juden. Photocopying requires permission.