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As many as 1,000 applicants are expected to crowd into the Missouri Job Service office next week in hopes of being selected for up to 120 positions that will become available next year with the opening of the new Central Hardware store here. Archaeologists with the University of Missouri-St. Louis are making test excavations at the Bollinger Mill Historical Site; scientists are hoping to find evidence of American Indian villages along the banks of the Whitewater River at the site...
1988
As many as 1,000 applicants are expected to crowd into the Missouri Job Service office next week in hopes of being selected for up to 120 positions that will become available next year with the opening of the new Central Hardware store here.
Archaeologists with the University of Missouri-St. Louis are making test excavations at the Bollinger Mill Historical Site; scientists are hoping to find evidence of American Indian villages along the banks of the Whitewater River at the site.
1963
For those who missed last Sunday's distribution of Type I of the Sabin oral vaccine, a feeding station is open throughout the day at the Arena Building.
Wind gusts in the afternoon blow two high-voltage lines together at the Missouri Utilities Co.'s substation on U.S. 61 south, causing a short-circuit and power interruption in that area; a reduction of power is also experienced in the area of the power plant on North Main Street.
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1938
Fanned by oil field development in nearby Illinois, leasing of land that may be transformed into petroleum fields is going on in Southeast Missouri in a big way; in at least four counties -- Cape Girardeau, Scott, Bollinger and Stoddard -- leases are being taken from farmer after farmer; it's estimated upward of 60,000 acres have been signed under contracts drawn between landowners and proposed drilling interests.
Charles A. Juden completes negotiations for the purchase of the lot at 119 Themis St., occupied by the ruins of the former four-story Elks building, which was destroyed by fire Monday night.
1913
The hospital committee is arranging to place a large thermometer on the Houck Building at the corner of Main Street and Broadway, where each afternoon at 3 the total amount of subscriptions will be marked; the thermometer will be 20 feet high and 5 feet wide, and at night it will be illuminated with electric lights.
John Herbst's petition for a saloon at the corner of Broadway and Fountain Street, the old Crescent Bar, is withdrawn when the case is brought up by the County Court at Jackson; the number of signatures on the petition are insufficient to proceed.
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