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Monthly Archives: February 2026
First Missouri Theatre Destroyed by Fire April 28, 1944
The Missouri Theater on the west side of Main between First and 2nd was destroyed in a fire on April 28, 1944. The theater palace was designed in 1926 by the Boller Brothers, who also designed the Missouri theatre palaces … Continue reading
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Townsend’s Faustiana Farm Nickel Plate was also the name of wholesalers’ coffee and tea products, as well as the name of the sports teams it sponsored
Townsend’s Faustiana Farm Nickel Plate was also the name of wholesalers’ coffee and tea products and of the sports teams it sponsored, per the Maryville Daily Forum, December 12, 1922.
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Maryville Business College
The Maryville Business College was organized in 1906 by E. S. Cook and George H. Meek. It was incorporated as the Western School Company when a sister campus started at the Creston Business College in Creston, Iowa, in 1908. The … Continue reading
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Postcard – RPPC
Maryville Sanitary Swimming Pool – Part RPPC Postcard Collection (colorized version)
NWMSU Homecoming Parade on Game vs. Springfield Before Dec 30, 1960 Townsend Wholesale Grocery Fire
Photos from Northwest Missouri homecoming parade before Dec 30, 1960, fire at the Townsend Wholesale Grocery Store on Fourth Street
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Corwin-Murrin Billboard at Maryville Sanitary Swimming Pool
Billboard for the Corwin-Murrin Clothing (Maryville’s oldest at the time) at the Maryville Sanitary Swimming Pool (which is diagonally across from the old Washington School at First and Vine at what today is Autumn House). The pool was privately owned.
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1941 College Leap Year Celebration
Note for 1980: will Nodaway County boys attending the Maryville Teachers College ever be the same after the strenuous event of Leap Week, which climaxed Friday night with a dance where styles were reversed? The figure on the left isn’t … Continue reading
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Lovers Lane, Maryville
From about 1900 to 1945, the section of what today is South Walnut between Lincoln and South Street was known as Lover’s Lane. There were poems about the Lane, a stories about being one of the “beauty spots of Maryville…with … Continue reading
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Great Jesse James Bank Scare of 1881
In 1881 (or possibly 1882), Maryville had a scare that outlaw Jesse James was staying at Dr. David Mulholland’s home, next door to First National Bank President Joseph Jackson’s landmark mansion at Lincoln and Walnut. Bankers were reported to have … Continue reading
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David Mulholland, Pioneer Doctor
David Mulholland (1830-1882) was a pioneer doctor in Maryville. He married to one of the daughters of Nodaway County founder Israel Newton Prather.