Out of the past 3/13/09

25 years ago: March 13, 1984

The Broadway Theater, hailed as one of the country's finest theaters when it opened on Christmas eve in 1921, is closing its doors Thursday; its final offering will be "Yentl," starring Barbra Streisand.

U.S. District Judge H. Kenneth Wangelin says he has been steadily reducing his St. Louis caseload so he can begin devoting full time to holding court in Cape Girardeau, which serves the Southeastern District of the Eastern Division of U.S. District Court in Missouri.

50 years ago: March 13, 1959

Farmer-Business Day is back on the schedule of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce and will be held next Wednesday; 36 area farmers have said they will attend the guided tour of manufacturing plants in Cape Girardeau.

Mr. and Mrs. Harris Foster have sold the Foster Barber and Beauty Supply Co., 521 Broadway, to Jack Mullins and Lucille Aaron, both of St. Louis; the Fosters started the business 36 years ago in Morley, Mo., moving here 24 years ago.

75 years ago: March 13, 1934

A furlough plan has been put into effect at the Cape Girardeau post office, the forced no-pay layoffs being effective for all postal employees except rural carriers; clerks in the office take a day off monthly; city carriers work their time off into their schedule by having one-hour leave for eight days of each month.

A boxing exhibition, the first to be staged in Cape Girardeau since last summer, will be given March 22 at Houck Field House with proceeds benefiting the Central Relief Organization; the main event will bring together Otis Bryant, formerly of Sikeston, Mo., who claims to have held the welterweight title of the Navy, and Johnny Goodman of Harrisburg, Ill.

100 years ago: March 13, 1909

Although 72 years old, Carl Karger of Cape Girardeau has a youthful heart and spirit; he recently walked to Gordonville to assist in furnishing violin music for a literary entertainment.

Normal School president W.S. Dearmont and Louis Houck, regent, return from St. Louis and Jefferson City, Mo., where they attended sessions of the legislature and tried to wheedle more money for the school out of the committee on appropriations.

-- Sharon K. Sanders