Week of April 3-9

April 9, 1917

The Sturdivant Bank's New Time Piece

Every Fifteen Minutes It Chimes the Passing of Time

The Sturdivant Bank has a new clock. It's not a Big Ben, nor is it a Waterbury.

The new Sturdivant Bank clock is a big one, placed conspicuously over the main entrance to the building, its benign face beaming down upon the passers-by and its melodious chimes ringing out the quarters of the hours as they pass.

The Sturdivant Bank is the father of all banks in Southeast Missouri, it being the oldest. So it was fitting that a clock to properly represent it should have the dignity of age...

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April 9, 1973

Cmdr. Lewis welcomed home

Escorted by a welcoming committee of relatives and Naval Reserve personnel which met them at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Lt. Cmdr. and Mrs. Earl G. Lewis Jr. and son, Tres, are to arrive in Cape Girardeau early tonight.

For Cmdr. Lewis it will be a different home town from the one he last saw before spending nearly 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.

There will be heart-warming visits with his family, his wife's famly, relatives and friends.

Cmdr. Lewis, a Navy pilot, was captured by the enemy Oct. 24, 1967, when his plane was shot down over Hanoi. He was among 108 POWs released by the North Vietnamese on March 14.

Lewis was reported in good physical condition and is thought to now have completed the medical...

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April 9, 1996

Rush H. Limbaugh dies at age of 104

By Jay Eastlick

Southeast Missourian

In 1902, on a small farm along the Little Muddy Creek in Bollinger County, a passion for the law first stirred in a 10-year-old boy.

Fourteen years later, he set out on a legal career that spanned eight decades.

On Monday, the lifetime love affair between the man and the law ended.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh, one of Cape Girardeau's favorite sons and the nation' s oldest practicing lawyer, died Monday afternoon at his home at 635 Sylvan Lane. He was 104.

Limbaugh's interest in law never waned and even in recent months, he headed into work about twice a week at the Limbaugh, Russell, Payne and Howard law firm that he founded 50 years ago in Cape Girardeau