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Crown Candy Kitchen has sweetened St. Louis with chocolate and ice cream since 1913, when Greek confectioners Harry Karandzieff and Pete Jugaloff opened shop. This is the city’s oldest soda fountain.

first appeared: 5/11/2003

President Harry S. Truman and baseball’s Stan Musial are among 45 famous Missourians in murals on the flood wall at Cape Girardeau (pop. 35,349).

first appeared: 5/4/2003

One of three known original issues of The Stars & Stripes is displayed at The Stars and Stripes Museum/Library in Bloomfield (pop. 1,952), where the military newspaper was first published by Union soldiers on Nov. 9, 1861.

first appeared: 4/27/2003

During World War II, Gen. Omar Bradley, born near Clark (pop. 275) in 1893, commanded 1.3 million troops, the largest American force ever under one man’s leadership.

first appeared: 4/20/2003

President Harry Truman popularized the Missouri Waltz by playing it at the White House, which led to its designation as the state song in 1949.

first appeared: 4/13/2003

In 1935 and 1936, during the Great Depression, children in St. Louis collected $2,000 to save the 1850 birthplace of Eugene Field, the children’s poet, from demolition. Field wrote Little Boy Blue and Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

first appeared: 4/6/2003

Halfway (pop. 176) is so-named because it’s halfway between Bolivar (pop. 9,143) and Buffalo (pop. 2,781).

first appeared: 3/30/2003

In 1845, Texas County was named after the Lone Star State and the county seat Houston (pop. 1,992) was named after Gen. Sam Houston.

first appeared: 3/23/2003

The USS Missouri, now a memorial moored on Pearl Harbor’s historic Battleship Row, was the site of Japan’s official surrender to the United States on Sept. 2, 1945, bringing an end to World War II.

first appeared: 3/16/2003

When Ray Ettinger of Independence stopped knitting his scarf in October 2000, it measured a world-record 3,523 feet long and weighed 75 pounds.

first appeared: 3/9/2003

Seventeen thousand letters are expected to be mailed this month to the hamlet of St. Patrick for a St. Patrick’s Day postmark. It is said to be the world’s only town with a post office named for Ireland’s patron saint.

first appeared: 3/2/2003

For 50 years, volunteers and members of the Kiwanis Club in Carthage (pop. 12,668) have operated Kiddieland, a tyke-sized amusement park.

first appeared: 2/23/2003

Coach Chester L. Brewer created the homecoming game tradition in 1911 after a football game was relocated from Kansas City to the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. Fearing poor attendance, Brewer urged Missouri alumni to “come home” for the game and 10,000 did, kicking off a “homecoming” tradition.

first appeared: 2/16/2003

Of the 384 principal Civil War battles, 29 were fought in Missouri. Only Virginia (123) and Tennessee (38) have more Civil War battlefields.

first appeared: 2/9/2003

Henry and Elizabeth Schell opened a trading post on the White River in 1835, but when the post office named the town after them, they dropped the “c” in Shell Knob (pop. 1,393).

first appeared: 2/2/2003

Fort Leonard Wood in south-central Missouri has launched the military careers of more than 3 million soldiers since it was established as a basic training center in 1940.

first appeared: 1/26/2003

Astronaut Tom Akers, veteran of four space shuttle missions, graduated from Eminence High School in Eminence (pop. 548) in 1969 and served as the school’s principal following college, before joining the Air Force in 1979.

first appeared: 1/19/2003

Some students barter hogs for tuition to attend Lindenwood University in St. Charles. The university then processes the hogs, serving ham, pork chops, and sausage in campus cafeterias.

first appeared: 1/12/2003

Built in 1770, The Old House Restaurant served as a trading post, tavern, stagecoach stop, antique shop, and tearoom before it was disassembled in Arnold (pop. 19,965) in 1973 and moved to Kimmswick (pop. 94) for restoration.

first appeared: 1/5/2003

Kirksville (pop. 16,988) was named after the town’s first postmaster, Jesse Kirk, who according to legend fed and entertained the surveyors who platted the community in 1841.

first appeared: 12/29/2002

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