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Prospects for debt breakthrough Saturday seem dim
(National News ~ 07/23/11)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prospects for a breakthrough in debt talks Saturday at the White House appeared dim as Republican leaders issued defiant statements ahead of their meeting with President Barack Obama. A visibly irritated Obama on Friday summoned congressional leaders from both parties to find a way to raise the debt limit before an Aug. 2 deadline cuts off the government's borrowing authority...
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Daizy Mae
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/23/11)
Favorite Activity: Sitting in the drivers seat of the car!
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AUNT HETTIE AND WOLF ISLAND
(Submitted Story ~ 07/23/11)
My Aunt Hettie Owings graduated highschool in Columbus, KY probably in abuot 1918 or 1919. She immediately got a job teaching on Wolf Island. She was asweet, timid southern lady and was not prepared to deal with what she described as the savage children she was supposed to teach. ...
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Out of the past 7/23/11
(Out of the Past ~ 07/23/11)
Republican senatorial candidate Kit Bond speaks at the first in a series of news conferences at the Cape Girardeau airport, declaring "voters of this state deserve an honest discussion of issues"; his likely Democratic opponent is Lt. Gov. Harriett Woods...
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Fred Graper
(Obituary ~ 07/23/11)
Fred Graper, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, July 21, 2011, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Henry Hennemann
(Obituary ~ 07/23/11)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Henry W. Hennemann, 87, of Perryville died Friday, July 22, 2011, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 13, 1924, at Biehle, Mo., son of Louis and Dorothea Buchheit Hennemann. He and Nelda L. Lintner were married June 2, 1956. She preceded him in death Feb. 13, 1999...
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Sophia Woolfolk
(Obituary ~ 07/23/11)
Sophia Ellen Woolfolk, 93, entered into rest Wednesday, July 20, 2011, at Monticello House in Jackson. She was born Feb. 5, 1918, in Centralia, Mo., daughter of Oliver and Zona Sewell Marshall. She and David Albert Woolfolk were married Dec. 31, 1937, in Mexico, Mo. He preceded her in death May 19, 1998...
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Edward Yancey
(Obituary ~ 07/23/11)
PATTON, Mo. -- Edward E. Yancey, 65, of Patton died Thursday, July 21, 2011, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 23, 1945, in Portland, Ore., son of James Brown and Lucille Berry Yancey. He married Lupie Johnson Verby of St. Louis, and then married P.J. Frick Feb. 7, 2007, at Patton...
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James Scholl
(Obituary ~ 07/23/11)
James L. "Jim" Scholl, 75, of Jackson passed away Friday, July 15, 2011, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 26, 1936, in Cape Girardeau, son of Rudolph E. and Martha F. Hoehn Scholl. He and Carol A. Ervin were married July 11, 1958, in Cape Girardeau...
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Glenn Schilling
(Obituary ~ 07/23/11)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Glenn E. Schilling, 58, of Perryville died Thursday, July 21, 2011, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Dec. 17, 1952, in Perry County, son of Erwin and Dolores Scholl Schilling. Schilling was a forklift operator at ART. He was of the Lutheran belief...
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Louise Presson
(Obituary ~ 07/23/11)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Louise M. Presson, 76, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., formerly of Cairo, died Friday, July 22, 2011, at Gulf Breeze Hospital. She was born June 3, 1935, in Cairo, the daughter of the late Aaron and Bertha Marrs Grigsby. She was married to Jim Presson, and taught in the Lebanon public schools in Lebanon, Ill. She also taught for ten years in the Gulf Breeze public schools. Mrs...
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