March 31, 2020
March 31, 1919
People across the state were protesting prohibition. A crowd of 10,000 assembled at the St. Louis Coliseum.
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March 31, 2020
Missouri’s Native Flowering Trees
Watch for our native blooming trees this spring, and work them into your landscapes.
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March 30, 2020
March 30, 1945
Missouri's present Constitution became effective. It is our fourth.
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March 27, 2020
March 27, 1848
This is the birthday of Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard. She taught at Central Female College in Lexington then founded Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri. She served for decades…
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March 26, 2020
March 26, 1870
On this day, Lemma Barkaloo was admitted to the Missouri Bar and became the first woman to practice law in the state. However, she died a few months later from of typhoid fever.
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March 25, 2020
March 25, 1905
A teachers training college was founded at Maryville. Today it is called Northwest Missouri State University.
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March 24, 2020
March 24, 1911
Legislation was signed and bond issues awarded on this day for the building of our present Capitol Building.
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March 23, 2020
March 23, 1903
Automobile license plates came to Missouri on this day. The same legislation set a state speed limit of nine miles per hour and required automobiles to sound a horn or a bell…
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