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Work is progressing to repair a slide along the middle third of the 1,800-foot slackwater harbor at the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority site; Luhr Brothers Construction Co., which built the harbor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is making the repairs...
1988
Work is progressing to repair a slide along the middle third of the 1,800-foot slackwater harbor at the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority site; Luhr Brothers Construction Co., which built the harbor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is making the repairs.
Circuit Judge A.J. Seier says he will call a county grand jury this week to investigate evidence in a massive undercover drug investigation; 44 adults have been named in warrants and six juveniles are suspects in connection with the 10-month-long probe.
1963
The Missourian has received several reports that motorists, despite numerous warnings and directional signs, are still turning into the wrong lane on Interstate 55 and on a short, four-lane section of U.S. 61.
State College's Lyman Brown finished second in football scoring in the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic race behind Southwest Missouri's Cornelius Perry; Brown tied with Northeast Missouri's Mike Via and Southwest's Ed Willard with 32 points behind Perry's 60.
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1938
The first 2,000 of the new Jefferson nickels for Cape Girardeau are received by the First National Bank; the coins have Thomas Jefferson's picture on one side and his Monticello home on the other.
A proposition to issue $7,000 in bonds with which to supplement a federal grant for a new central grade school for the Consolidated Fruitland School District fails to carry at a special election; residents of the Leemon, Sawyer, Dogwood and Fruitland communities vote on the proposal; the plan was to eliminate two of the present rural schools, with pupils to have been bussed to a new school.
1913
Eighty business men and prominent citizens were present last night at a meeting of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club, during which the ultimatum delivered by the superintendent of the Frisco Railroad was considered; the crowd voted unanimously to request that the city council hold the Frisco to its franchise obligations to improve the town's riverfront.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Meyers, formerly of Advance, Mo., and who have been living with his parents near Jackson, pass through Cape Girardeau on their way to Atlanta, where Mr. Meyer will enter a sanitarium for treatment; Alvin Milde of Jackson is accompanying them.
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