- Mayor Ford, Kiwanis light up Capaha Park's diamond (4/16/24)1
- The rise and fall of Capaha Park's wooden grandstand (4/9/24)
- Death of Judge Pat Dyer, prosecutor of the famous peonage case here in 1906 (4/2/24)2
- A third steamer Cape Girardeau was christened 100 years ago (3/26/24)
- Cape Girardeau christens its namesake (3/19/24)
- The humanist philosophy of Lester Mondale (3/12/24)1
- Cape Osteopathic Hospital opens its doors (3/5/24)
Host of new regulations, programs followed Pearl Harbor attack
In the weeks that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans were faced with a plethora of new regulations and programs designed to aid the war effort.
Some I had heard about or read of before, but others were completely new to me. I've gathered up a few of them in this blog.
Published in the Southeast Missourian Feb. 9, 1942:
When daylight saving went into effect today, shoe factory workers in Cape Girardeau went to work one hour before daylight. The above photo, looking south towards the shoe factory, shows the big building lit up throughout probably the first time in its history. The two-block-long building resembled a giant river excursion steamer with its various decks all brilliantly illuminated. Shoe workers are Cape's early risers; they go to work at 7 a.m. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast MIssourian archive)
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