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RecordsFebruary 14, 2012

Fountainbleau Lodge, a state-licensed residential home that opened recently, has plans for expansion; an architect's plan for an addition to the nursing home -- a combination sun room, activity room -- has been approved by the lodge's board of directors...

25 years ago: Feb. 14, 1987

Fountainbleau Lodge, a state-licensed residential home that opened recently, has plans for expansion; an architect's plan for an addition to the nursing home -- a combination sun room, activity room -- has been approved by the lodge's board of directors.

The Rev. John D. Magee, pastor of St. James AME Church in Cape Girardeau, was recently honored for his work in prison ministry, receiving the Drum Major's Drummer award in St. Louis.

50 years ago: Feb. 14, 1962

A team of 10 architects is looking over large public and private buildings in Cape Girardeau this week to determine those suitable for consideration as public fallout shelters; the architects are with the St. Louis firm of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum.

Mayor Walter H. Ford endorses the constitutional amendment that, if passed, would allow cities and counties to share in state gasoline tax proceeds; the March 6 election will decide whether the two-cent tax addition that went into effect last October will become permanent; if so, the cities will receive three-quarters of a cent of the tax and the counties a quarter of a cent.

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75 years ago: Feb. 14, 1937

Nathaniel Jenkins and W.N. Weaver, Internal Revenue investigators stationed here, are back in Cape Girardeau after spending two weeks assisting the Red Cross with refugee work at Sikeston, Mo.; they had been assigned by their department to assist during the emergency, inasmuch as the flood and cold weather put a crimp in bootleg liquor making.

After sounding out public sentiment, a committee from the Ministerial Alliance has decided to conduct the annual union Easter sunrise service at Teachers College this year instead of at Cape Rock, as has been done the last two years.

100 years ago: Feb. 14, 1912

The Wednesday Club members have asked the cooperation of the Commercial Club in securing a matron for the union railroad station, to look after the women and girls who arrive on the various trains and to generally supervise the waiting rooms.

The Rev. Andrew Miller, 87, for more than a half-century pastor of the Universalist church at Millersville, dies quite suddenly in the morning; the deceased was born at Millersville, which was settled by his father and uncles in 1803 and named for the family.

-- Sharon K. Sanders

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