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RecordsDecember 23, 2011

Area satellite dish owners are now able to subscribe to satellite television programming through Satellite Services Inc., a subsidiary of Tele-Communications Inc., the Denver-based company that operates the cable system here. A little doe yesterday jumped over a six-foot fence and landed in a swimming pool, which had been covered, at the home of Mary Blackiston, 1717 Colonial; after a brief swim, the deer leapt back over the fence and made her escape...

25 years ago: Dec. 23, 1986

Area satellite dish owners are now able to subscribe to satellite television programming through Satellite Services Inc., a subsidiary of Tele-Communications Inc., the Denver-based company that operates the cable system here.

A little doe yesterday jumped over a six-foot fence and landed in a swimming pool, which had been covered, at the home of Mary Blackiston, 1717 Colonial; after a brief swim, the deer leapt back over the fence and made her escape.

50 years ago: Dec. 23, 1961

A second white Christmas in as many years appears in prospect for Cape Girardeau and the area in the wake of a somewhat unannounced snowfall; snow begins falling in the early morning hours, following yesterday's rain; the combination serves to slicken roads in the area.

In a basketball duel of Cape Girardeau schools, the Notre Dame High School Bulldogs fall to the Central High Tigers 53-40 in the title game of the College High Holiday Tournament at Houck Field House; leading the victorious Tigers in scoring are Paul Ebaugh and Jerry Suedekum, both with 15 points.

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75 years ago: Dec. 23, 1936

Scott County Sheriff Joe Anderson has 100 armed men in a posse searching the hill country near Doniphan, Mo., for a gunman believed to be the convicted killer who crawled out of the Scott County Jail at Benton, Mo., the night of Nov. 17.

Horse and buggy days have been revived at Old Appleton due to the condition of Highway 25; farmers living south of there, with no time for a 30-mile detour around by Biehle, Mo., have left their automobiles parked in the garage, dusted off the abandoned family buggy and harnessed old Dobbin to it.

100 years ago: Dec. 23, 1911

Maj. J.F. Brooks has arrived home for the holidays with his family; for nearly a year, Brooks has been down in Georgia in charge of an engineering corps that has been preparing a right of way for a new railroad.

The raising of the steamer the City of Savannah, which sank at Buffalo Island in the Mississippi River, has been suspended because of the rapid rise of the river.

-- Sharon K. Sanders

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