Out of the past: Aug. 7

1990

Dr. M. Marguerite Fuller of Cape Girardeau, 88, a prominent physician here 58 years and the first woman to receive the Golden Deeds Award, died yesterday at the Lutheran Home; after graduating from the Kirksville (Missouri) College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fuller came to Cape Girardeau in 1924 as an associate with the late Dr. Anita Bohnsack.

WASHINGTON -- In answer to the Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi forces, President Bush dispatches American warplanes and ground troops to Saudi Arabia, where sources say a multinational military force is being created to defend the vulnerable kingdom.

1965

Vicki Litzelfelner was crowned sesquicentennial queen, and Janet Nelson was named runner-up last night as the first day of Frontier Days in Jackson was brought to a close.

Cape Girardeau's new post office structure is dedicated in the afternoon; Rep. Paul C. Jones, who speaks at the ceremony, says he is pleased "any great controversy" was avoided in the selection of a site for the building; he adds that a new federal office building will be constructed "in a comparatively short time" on the site of the old post office at Broadway and Fountain Street.

1940

Casting a comparatively light vote, Cape Girardeau County picked its nominees yesterday to participate in the general election in November; the featured Republican race was for county sheriff, with Ruben Schade of Jackson emerging the winner in a three-way contest over Judge H.K. Sewing and William Hartung.

Improvement of the Gordonville Road, from U.S. 61 at Independence Street westward to Highway 25, a distance of nearly seven miles, is to be done by contract, says D.M. Scivally, engineer of the Cape Special Road District, which is making the project possible; if right of way can be secured without a hitch, the project should be under contract in a couple of weeks.

1915

M.W. Burdick of Dexter, Missouri, drives down from St. Louis in a newly purchased touring car; while proceeding up Broadway hill, his car dies; Burdick cranks it started, and before he can get back inside, it swings across the street, and the rear end crashes through the plate glass in the empty store room in the Cahoon Building at the corner of Spanish Street and Broadway.

Last week, a wonderfully beautiful and inspiring mausoleum was placed over the grave lot of the late Frederick Daues and his wife, who both died 10 years ago; four brothers, sons of the couple, came down from St. Louis and built the mausoleum.

-- Sharon K. Sanders