Out of the past: July 29

1991

A $5.5 million bubbling-bed boiler that supplies power to Southeast Missouri State University has been operational only about 30 percent of the time since early 1990; the boiler first was installed and used in May 1989 and is one of a few in the country that burns high-sulfur coal.

About 65 property owners from south-central Cape Girardeau attend a meeting at city hall to learn about the city's latest Community Development Block Grant program; the program could renovate 60 homes in the neighborhood of College and Jefferson streets during the next two years.

1966

Showers over much of Cape Girardeau County yesterday and today bring some relief from the heat and once more stave off a rising threat to crops; rainfall amounts ranged from a half-inch to nearly an inch over much of the county.

The city of Cape Girardeau has hired a new electrical inspector, Steve Propst, to succeed L.R. McDowell, who was promoted to city park superintendent earlier this month.

1941

Officials with the Dixie Greyhound Bus Lines Inc. indicate they are considering improving terminal bus facilities in Cape Girardeau; this is learned during a hearing before the Public Service Commission; the hearing is on applications by Greyhound and the Frisco Transportation Co. for permits to institute irregular charter-bus service between points on their perspective lines and other points within the state.

Elmore W. Kassel of the Kassel jewelry store, 621 Broadway, said he has purchased the building he now occupies; the room adjacent to it on the west, which had been occupied by Walther Furniture Exchange; and the two family apartments on the second floor from Mrs. Selma Vasterling; Kassel expects to start remodeling both the interior and exterior of the building within a day or two.

1916

The Lorberg Undertaking Co. of Good Hope Street closes a deal for the purchase of an automobile hearse; Martin Lorberg, manager of the company, signs the contract with the McCabe Powers Carriage Co. of St. Louis for the $4,000 hearse; there are several automobile hearses operating in Southeast Missouri, but none of them is so expensive as the one Lorberg is purchasing.

The official temperature reading, taken at the Normal School, is 95 degrees at 3 p.m., a degree higher than yesterday; the overnight low was around 80, indicating why it was so difficult for many to sleep last night.

-- Sharon K. Sanders