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Published June 27, 1993.
Elephants with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus walk up Broadway in downtown Cape Girardeau Friday morning on their way to the Show Me Center. The circus had arrived by train for its performances this weekend. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
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Published July 2, 1993.
Kim Tripp, Bollinger Mill tour guide, and Jack Smoot, historic site administrator of the Bollinger Mill, oversee the state park area that includes the 140-foot covered bridge next to the mill in Burfordville. The bridge will be completely restored following a capital improvement budget signed by Gov. Mel Carnahan that allows $611,200 for the project. (Don Shrubshell ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
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Published April 22, 1988. Hale Irwin, right, PGA golfing professional and golf-course designer, looks over plans for a proposed golf course with developers Rob Litzelfelner, left, and Jack Litzelfelner. The plans are currently in the preliminary stages, but if everything progresses according to schedule, the course could be ready by summer 1990. [The course was named Bent Creek Golf Course.] (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
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Published Aug. 7, 1983.
Mable's Cafe in Chaffee is celebrating 25 years of service this month. That, in itself, isn't so unusual, but Mable's clientele is. They come on about every form of transportation around--some several times a day--and they all showed up Friday for a get-together and group picture. From left, they are: Fred J. Seyer, 83, of Chaffee, standing next to his golf cart; C.H. Duncan, 65, Chaffee, standing by the Model T automobile; Chaffee Police Chief Chet McCain; James M. Stubbs, 56, Chaffee, in the three-wheeler; Kenneth Youngman, 73, Oran, on the motorcycle; Robbie and J.P. Montgomery, 11 and 7, respectively, of Chaffee, standing to the viewer's left of the horses; Paul Montgomery, 67, Chaffee, standing to the viewer's right of the horses; Shirley Kitchen, 41, a waitress at the cafe, and Jimmy Hargrove, 4, standing behind the horses. (Randy Lilleston ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
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Published June 9, 1993.
Dr. Raymond A. Ritter Sr., center, shows some of the surgical tools from the early 1900s on display at Tuesday night's annual dinner meeting for Saint Francis Medical Center, to Helen Miner, left, who had dressed in 1880s-period nursing attire, and Ritter's wife, Lillian. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
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Published June 21, 1993.
William J. Sides, owner of Sides Steel Supply and Metal Recycling operations, stacks a package of baled aluminum cans. (Southeast Missourian archive)
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It looks like a cool day but good enough for a motorboat ride on the Mississippi River. This picture shows a 1958 Thunderbird assisting at Honkers Boat Dock in Cape Girardeau. The date is unknown. (G.D. FRONABARGER ~ Southeast Missourian archive)