RecordsSeptember 18, 2013
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A missionary convention is being held at First Church of the Nazarene this weekend; speakers are the Rev. and Mrs. Lindell Browning; they have lived and worked in Israel since 1981. Missouri is shaping up as a major battleground for the presidential campaign; an intense focus of that battle is the 8th Congressional District, where Republicans are trying to maintain the Democratic support that was strong for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and Democrats are trying to win back support...
1988
A missionary convention is being held at First Church of the Nazarene this weekend; speakers are the Rev. and Mrs. Lindell Browning; they have lived and worked in Israel since 1981.
Missouri is shaping up as a major battleground for the presidential campaign; an intense focus of that battle is the 8th Congressional District, where Republicans are trying to maintain the Democratic support that was strong for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and Democrats are trying to win back support.
1963
Floodwall construction to protect the North Main Street Levee District is inspected in the morning by Col. James B. Meanor Jr., St. Louis district engineer; he makes his first visit here since he succeeded Col. Alfred J. D'Arezzo recently.
Ben Schade has sold Schade's Cafe in Jackson to Lloyd Dillman, owner of Dillman's Midtown Restaurant in Cape Girardeau; Schade's Cafe had been operated by the Schade family since 1933; Ben Schade bought out the rest of the family in 1947.
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1938
Canon C.E. Remich of Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis is the speaker at Christ Episcopal Church here and at the mission church at Chaffee, Mo.
Bishop W.T. Watkins of Atlanta, here Saturday to pay his first official visit to the ministers of the Cape Girardeau district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, praised the work of the district and commented that it had one of the best records of any of the districts he has thus far visited.
1913
The fair started off yesterday with the best first-day crowd ever, with between 1,500 and 2,000 people attending; the grandstand was comfortably filled for the races, and much interest was manifested in both the pacing and trotting races.
Roy Francis, flying in a Curtis-Wright airplane, made a magnificent flight of approximately 30 miles yesterday afternoon, going to some of the towns south of Cape Girardeau, west over Dutchtown and Gordonville and north to Jackson, and then returned to the fairgrounds; spectators of the flight followed him easily without the aid of glasses throughout the entire tour.
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