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Antique Ordinances
The Library Center has a copy of the Springfield, Mo., 1887 City Ordinances that regulate the shooting of firecrackers and disposal of melon rinds and other fruit.
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What You Can Find in the Local History Department
If you are planning a trip to Springfield, Missouri, this article will give you an outline of materials available at the Local History and Genealogy department at the Library Center.
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Save the Date
Community & Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks public unveiling of an online database of scanned original documents and artifacts. Also, ICON Computer Users' Group Family Group Sheets in Family Tree Maker 2009.
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Ghosts on the trolley
Ghosts on the trolley lines in 1892. What started as an editorial against tellers of ghosts stories seems to have sold papers because two more grisly tales followed soon after.
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Gospel for Bloomer Girls
Alternative religious services for bicyclists proposed in St. Louis’ Forest Park area in 1897.
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