RecordsAugust 11, 2013
Out of the past 8/11/13
Cape Girardeau residents are picking up the pieces after a sudden storm struck a section of the city yesterday afternoon, unleashing high winds that toppled trees and dumped 3.7 inches of rain that caused flooding in some areas; tree limbs falling on power lines left 750 residences and businesses without power, some until 1 a.m. today...
1988
Cape Girardeau residents are picking up the pieces after a sudden storm struck a section of the city yesterday afternoon, unleashing high winds that toppled trees and dumped 3.7 inches of rain that caused flooding in some areas; tree limbs falling on power lines left 750 residences and businesses without power, some until 1 a.m. today.
Carolyn Ewing is the Cape Girardeau Business and Professional Women's "Woman of the Year" for 1988; Ewing was presented her plaque last night by the 1984 recipient, Mary Spell.
1963
In the absence of the Rev. J. Ray Trotter, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, during the remaining weeks of August, the pulpit will be filled with guest speakers for the morning worship; speaking today is Dr. Bryce March of State College.
A three-alarm fire discovered early yesterday morning in a building housing the Seventy-Five Cafe at 109 Independence destroyed the interior of the two-story brick building; the cafe was operated by L.B. Slinkard.
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1938
The annual Southeast Missouri Fire School is being held in Chaffee, Mo.; attending the talks and demonstrations from the Cape Girardeau Fire Department are Chief R.J. Kammer, Carl Lewis, Glenn Lewis, Roy Haman and Otto Fowler.
Excavation begins on the north end of Sunset Boulevard for the basement for a two-story, eight-room frame duplex for Elaine Davis, manager of the Co-op Drug & Sundry Shop on Main Street; Henry Steinhoff has the general contract.
1913
The Chautauqua opens in the afternoon, with a big crowd filling the tent to hear the Anita Singing Orchestra; although the temperature is high, the tent is strangely cool and breezy; it's likely the most comfortable spot in town; more entertainment is scheduled tonight, including a lecture by Fred J. Clark.
Pressley Hopper, farm manager for Louis Houck, demonstrated a Titan traction plow engine on Houck's "black-land" farm below Cape Girardeau on Saturday; the Titan pulled five large plows through the black gumbo soil; the plows, with their attachments, had a gross weight of more than 3,300 pounds.
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