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An agreement is reached between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and officials with the Southeast Missouri Regional Port on a method to stop a slide along the slack water harbor at the port. Gina Beussink of Gordonville is the 1988 Homecomers Queen; other members of the court are first runner-up Jacklyn Smith of Cape Girardeau and second runner-up Shelley Pietsek of Ste. Genevieve, Mo...
1988
An agreement is reached between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and officials with the Southeast Missouri Regional Port on a method to stop a slide along the slack water harbor at the port.
Gina Beussink of Gordonville is the 1988 Homecomers Queen; other members of the court are first runner-up Jacklyn Smith of Cape Girardeau and second runner-up Shelley Pietsek of Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
1963
Brother Paul H. Loos, C.S.C., son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Adam H. Loos of Jackson, pronounced his first vows in the congregation of Holy Cross at a recent ceremony in Sacred Heart Novitiate, Jordan, Minn.
The Rev. A.C. Queen, secretary of the department of student ministries of Illinois Baptist State Association, fills the pulpit at both services of the First Baptist Church at Cape Girardeau.
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1938
Cape Girardeau cafe and restaurant owners, looking forward 10 days hence when upward of 10,000 people will be here for the American Legion state convention, are preparing to add extra cooks and waitresses in anticipation of the invasion, which will tax all available facilities.
The bobcat menace again prevails here; there is no doubt about it, either, as Josie Seabaugh, who resides on Cape Rock Drive about 300 yards west of the water plant, saw the animal Tuesday afternoon as it raided her chicken yard.
1913
The Southerland Construction Co. of St. Louis has been awarded the contract for building the new Saint Francis Hospital.
Giboney Houck is nursing a broken arm as the result of an auto ride to Burfordville yesterday; he, Fred Groves and Louis Juden went out to visit the Boy Scout camp; upon their return trip in the evening, they were running at a fair rate of speed when they crossed Seven-Mile Creek bridge; Houck was seated in the back seat and leaning forward with his arms resting on the iron bar near the front seat, when the auto hit the bridge, throwing all his weight on the left arm; both bones were broken just above the wrist.
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