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RecordsSeptember 29, 2013

After 21 years at 10 N. Pacific St., the Cape Girardeau County chapter of the American Red Cross is moving; this weekend, volunteers and staff members will pack up all the supplies and records and move the office to 2610 Gerhardt St., just off South Kingshighway...

1988

After 21 years at 10 N. Pacific St., the Cape Girardeau County chapter of the American Red Cross is moving; this weekend, volunteers and staff members will pack up all the supplies and records and move the office to 2610 Gerhardt St., just off South Kingshighway.

Robert Hendrix, president of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, has received the Top Level Award, the highest award presented by the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Missouri; Hendrix is only the 19th recipient of the award.

1963

Rally Day is observed by Trinity Lutheran Sunday school pupils and workers, with about 500 persons taking part; in addition, 81 teachers and workers and their pupils parade from the school on North Pacific Street to the church at Frederick and Themis streets.

MARBLE HILL-LUTESVILLE, Mo. -- The Jaycees of Marble Hill and Lutesville are sponsoring a massive program designed to immunize every resident of the twin cities with the Sabin oral polio vaccine; the Sabin series consists of three doses of vaccine, designed to protect against three known types of polio.

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1938

A bobcat was shot and killed within the Cape Girardeau city limits late yesterday; Paul Seabaugh, a Teachers College student, dispatched the cat near the Seabaugh dwelling on Cape Rock Drive with a shotgun; the bobcat weighed about 20 pounds.

Cape Girardeau County Judge John S. Kochtitzky piloted a party of teachers, scientists and historians from Southern Illinois, through Jackson and from there to Moccasin Springs, on Wednesday afternoon; the party followed the "Trail of Tears," the route taken by the Cherokee Indians on their trek to the Indian Territory 100 years ago.

1913

Methodist Bishop E.E. Hoos announces the appointments of pastors for the ensuing year; the University City, Mo., congregation, which had hoped for the return of Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, is disappointed; Holt will remain at Centenary Church in Cape Girardeau.

Cape Girardeau's Bill Barenkamp, who has been playing baseball in the Eastern League, has been drafted for next year by the Oakland, Calif., team of the Pacific Coast League from Pittsfield, Mass.

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