BUSINESS LINE: TIME LINE REFLECTS GROWING, CHANGING BUSINESS SCENE

1910-1919

1910 The Weekly Sentinel was published for several weeks.

1910 Cement plant started by John H. Himmelberger and William H. Harrison to utilize local limestone and clay.

1910 Idan Ha Hotel bought by George McBride.

1910 First automobile gas filling station established.

1910 Martin G. Lorberg started Haarig Furniture & Undertaking Co. at corner of Good Hope and Frederick.

1911 Fred Groves established his auto agency.

1911 C. Wielpuetz and his three sons, Arthur, Ernest and Max J., transferred their bakery to Cape Girardeau from Fornfelt

1911 First ambulance, horse-drawn, put in service by Lorberg Funeral Home.

1911 Parisian Cleaners established.

1912 Five-story fireproof addition constructed at Idan Ha Hotel.

1912 Broadway Hippodrome closed.

1912 W.F. Suedekum bought out Schwab, and Meyer & Suedekum Hardware Store was formed.

1913 C.P. Coley bought Business College.

1913 Albert Grocer Co. sold to Meyer-Albert Grocer Co.

1914 Park Theater opened.

1914 Woolworth Store opened.

1914 The Daily Tribune established; The Weekly Tribune, also called The Cape Tribune, appeared from February to October 1914.

1914 First National Bank failed.

1914 Fred Groves got Ford automobile agency.

1914 Day Transfer Co. opened by William A. Day.

1915 Charles A. Himmelberger took charge of Phillips Lumber Co.

1915 Ford Motor Co. incorporated.

1915 J.E. Rigdon bought Cape Steam Laundry.

1915 Bartel's Store opened.

1916 I. Ben Miller purchased site on South Spanish for ice cream factory from J. Matt Morrison. Site was then occupied by Brune blacksmith shop.

1916 Riverview Hotel, Terminal Hotel and Buckner-Ragsdale Store, on North Water, destroyed by fire.

1916 Cape Exchange Bank established at 517 Broadway.

1916 Ford Groves Co. moved to new garage on Fountain Street.

1916 Miller's ice cream plant started.

1916 Bergmann-Bartels Store divided.

1916 Buckner-Ragsdale Store in new building.

1916 Walther's Furniture opened in new store.

1916 Business College moved into Buckner-Ragsdale building.

1916 J.W. Gillingwater leased picture show at Broadway and Frederick.

1916 Hugo A. Lang bought N.S. Weiler's jewelry store on Main.

1916 Harris Motor Car Co. opened.

1916 Lang's Jewelry started.

1917 John Williams sold his livery stable, last one in city; located on east side of Frederick, between William and Good Hope.

1917 Hecht Store established.

1917 New Orpheum Theater in Haarig opened.

1917 Rigdon Laundry on Sprigg Street started.

1917 Strain & Doyle bought Park Theater from Naeter Brothers.

1917 New Orpheum Theater opened by Henry Sanders.

1917 Sturdivant Bank clock installed.

1918 Louis Hecht sold his store to Herbert Moss and went off to war.

1918 Name of The Daily Republcan became The Southeast Missourian.

1918 Walter Black resumed management of Broadway Garage.

1919 Nationwide prohibition began.

1919 Louis Hecht's new store, 123 N. Main, opened.

1919 Prescott Hotel on Main Street purchased by Johnston brothers.

1919 The Weekly Tribune changed its name to The Morning Sun; it suspended publication in 1922.

1919 Minton-Thompson Garage opened in former Bee Store building.

1919 Cape Mill Mfg. Co. incorporated.

1919 Broadway saloon first to close in Cape Girardeau under Prohibition.

1919 Arcade Saloon, corner of Main and Themis, now store for women, after being known as "wettest" place in town for past 50 years.

1919 A.H. Mueller bought old Riverview Hotel site on Water Street.

1919 Cape Girardeau-Jackson Printing Co. incorporated.

1919 Phillips Lumber Co. name changed to Southeast Missouri Lumber Co.

1919 Work on addition to shoe factory started.

1919 Potato Harvester Co. headquarters to Cape Girardeau.

1919 John Settle book store burned.

1919 Cronon Implement Co. organized.

1919 Security State Bank organized in Haarig.

1919 Lutz Bakery on Independence Street opened.

1919 Shoe factory workers organized union.

1919 Cape Smelting Co. dissolved.

1919 C.P. Coley sold Business College.

1919 New bakery opened at corner of Broadway and Spanish.

1919 Peter Deimund established Cape Girardeau Sand Co.

1919 Doughnut Bakery opened in Cahoon Building, Broadway and Spanish.

1919 George W. Heuer established Heuer & Sons Implement Co.