{"id":279712,"date":"2026-06-27T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279712\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:22:08","slug":"captured-on-film-illinois-and-missouri-queens-chosen-at-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279712\/","title":{"rendered":"Captured on Film: Illinois and Missouri queens chosen at Cap&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Two queens were selected during bridge-freeing festivities at Cape Girardeau Saturday, June 29, 1957. Left to right are Mimi Tieman of Cairo, maid of honor to Illinois Queen Linda Cooksey of Marion, Missouri Queen Georgia Kinder of Painton, Dorothy Seabaugh Knehans, who crowned the queens, and Missouri Maid of Honor Julie Bredall of Perryville. Knehans was a queen contestant when the bridge was dedicated in 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two queens were selected during bridge-freeing festivities at Cape Girardeau Saturday, June 29, 1957. Left to right are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[107412,107411,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-279712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-captured-on-film","tag-good-times","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}