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RecordsJuly 14, 2012

A joint committee, composed of Cape Girardeau and Jackson city officials, is expected to study developer Jim Drury's request that Jackson provide utilities to property east of Interstate 55; Cape Girardeau city officials have expressed concern that the request for utilities may lead to Jackson extending its city limits east of the interstate...

25 years ago: July 14, 1987

A joint committee, composed of Cape Girardeau and Jackson city officials, is expected to study developer Jim Drury's request that Jackson provide utilities to property east of Interstate 55; Cape Girardeau city officials have expressed concern that the request for utilities may lead to Jackson extending its city limits east of the interstate.

The Cape Girardeau School Board approves asking voters to decide on a 48-cent tax increase on Oct. 6; if the issue fails, the district will face another series of cuts in school programs.

50 years ago: July 14, 1962

ADVANCE, Mo. -- An estimated 75 to 100 men, some of them armed, beat five workers at a Diversion Channel construction site near here, then flee as officers arrive, leaving behind a warning they would return; the incident takes place at the Diversion Channel bridge on Highway 91 four miles north of Advance.

William Dawson Pikey, former State College and Notre Dame High basketball player, has been named head basketball coach at Advance (Mo.) High School.

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75 years ago: July 14, 1937

Architect A.F. Lindsay announces plans to build two additions to the administrative building of the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. plant here, one of which will be an entirely new structure; the additions will be of Spanish design to conform with the present office building's architecture.

An eight-passenger plane is scheduled to be here Sunday for flights over the city; it will be piloted by C. Garth Gates; the plane will land on a field off Highway 61 north of the Camp Cape property.

100 years ago: July 14, 1912

Professor Theo. Wilder of Bristol, Conn., is in Cape Girardeau visiting his parents, the Rev. August Wilder, and his numerous friends; he will spend his summer vacation here; his father is pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church.

The Rev. H. Sprenger of Illmo, who is a graduate of Concordia Seminary and who was ordained last Sunday by the Rev. George Hilpert at the Lutheran (Rock) church at Illmo, is preparing to depart in a few days for his field of labor in South Dakota.

-- Sharon K. Sanders

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