Out of the past 10/24/14

1989

Riverside Home Centers, Inc., which was founded more than 85 years ago as a basic lumber yard and became one of the largest hardware and building materials firm in Southeast Missouri, may soon close its doors; the company has started to liquidate its stock; it will either be sold or close.

In the wake of recent national disasters, City Manager J. Ronald Fischer has asked representatives of city departments to meet and review the city's emergency response plan; the request came in the light of the recent earthquake in San Francisco and the hurricane in Charleston, South Carolina.

1964

Building permits in Cape Girardeau amounting to $624,900 in declared costs have been issued during the first three weeks of October; the largest of the commercial projects is the Sunny Hill Motor Inn under construction at a declared cost of $320,000.

COMMERCE, Mo. -- A unique project on the Mississippi River just north of here will result in the elimination of a hazard that has plagued river traffic since the time large craft started navigating on a commercial basis; using a 55-year-old dipper dredge, the Army Corps of Engineers is working to remove a natural rock formation that spreads across the river in a stretch known as the Commerce Chute.

1939

Plans are announced for mobilization of the entire strength of the 140th Infantry, National Guard, for seven days of intensive field training, likely during November.

Members of the Tri-County Bankers Association, meeting around the dinner table at Jackson, discuss the matter of living by the new federal 42-hour work week; the federal law calls for time and one-half pay for any time worked over 42 hours a week.

1914

Jane Addams, accompanied by Mrs. Walter McNabb Miller, president of the Missouri Equal Suffrage League, arrives in Cape Girardeau on the noon train from St. Louis; Addams is the guest of Mrs. L.B. Houck, and Miller is being entertained by Mrs. R.B. Oliver; Addams will speak this afternoon at the Normal School, and both women will speak tonight at the courthouse in support of women's suffrage.

Emily Kage, daughter of Mayor Fred A. Kage, is knocked unconscious, when a horse in Frank Kimmel's barn on North Spanish Street kicks her in the face.

-- Sharon K. Sanders