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Missouri to begin accepting medical-marijuana patient, caregiver applications June 28
(Local News ~ 06/15/19)
The State of Missouri will begin accepting medical-marijuana applications from patients and caregivers starting June 28, six days ahead of the July 4 deadline. Patients and caregivers must visit medicalmarijuana.mo.gov to enter information into the online application system, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) said in a news release Friday...
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Regents approve operating budget; small raise first in two years for staff
(Local News ~ 06/15/19)
The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents approved a total operating budget of nearly $174 million for the university’s upcoming fiscal year during its two-day annual retreat Thursday and Friday in St. Louis. The budget for fiscal year 2020, which begins July 1, is 0.8% more than the university’s budget for the current fiscal year ending June 30 and includes a merit salary increase for faculty and staff amounting to 1% or $700, whichever is greater, over their current salary. ...
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Great parents for Jayce
(Community ~ 06/15/19)
While most seniors spend their retirement years relaxing, Carl and Donna Holmes are spending theirs raising their great-grandson, Jayce. Across an age difference of 65 years, Carl, 70, and his wife Donna, 65, care for Jayce, 5, who lost his mother to the opioid epidemic about two years ago...
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Like Vikings and Jedi: Missouri to allow outdoor cremations
(Local News ~ 06/15/19)
Missouri could become the first state in the nation to legalize outdoor cremations fit for Vikings, some Native American tribes and even Jedi knights. State lawmakers passed a bill in the just-completed session to allow outdoor cremations at licensed crematoriums or on private sites. Such cremations would require state permits and be under the direction of licensed funeral directors...
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Business owners singing 'Gloria' after Blues' title win
(Local News ~ 06/15/19)
Virtually every sports bar in Cape Girardeau was packed Wednesday night as hockey fans watched and cheered the St. Louis Blues as they captured the Stanley Cup for the first time in the team’s 52-year history. Meanwhile, local stores selling Blues apparel say they can’t keep up with demand for Blues merchandise and even tattoo shops say they’ve seen an uptick in customers wanting tattoos of the Blues logo and the Stanley Cup...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
Today is Saturday, June 15, the 166th day of 2019. There are 199 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 15, 1944, American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II. B-29 Superfortresses carried out their first raids on Japan...
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Drewett - Mueller
(Engagement ~ 06/15/19)
Chuck and Cindy Drewett of Jackson announce the engagement of their daughter, Valerie Patricia Drewett, to Jared Matthew Mueller, both of Terra Haute, Indiana. He is the son of Wendell and Kim Mueller of Jackson. Valerie is a 2010 graduate of Jackson High School. She received a Bachelor of Arts in communications from Truman State University in 2014. She is a business analyst II at Centene Corporation...
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Protecting the home front: 7th Separate Company of the Missouri Home Guard
(Community ~ 06/15/19)
The United States entered First World War on April 6, 1917, when Congress declared war on Germany, followed by a similar declaration on Austria-Hungary on Dec. 7. American troops would not be sent en masse until 1918. With war being waged, the Missouri National Guard was federalized and sent overseas in August 1917. ...
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The European hornet
(Column ~ 06/15/19)
I found this dead European hornet about a week ago. It was lying on the front end loader of a John Deere tractor. I do not know how or why it died. Maybe our recent extensive wet weather played a part. Maybe a summer tanager caught and killed it. The summer tanager is a native songbird that eats bees...
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Senior Center Menus for June 17 through 21
(Community ~ 06/15/19)
Monday: Cheeseburger or smothered bratwurst, seasoned Tater Tots, steamed zucchini, whole-grain bun and cinnamon applesauce or lemonade cake. Tuesday: BBQ pork chop or chopped steak with bacon and onion gravy, baked potato, Brussels sprouts, whole-grain hot roll and sugar-free peach crisp or blonde brownie...
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Early gardening tips
(Column ~ 06/15/19)
The weather has turned off better for the farmers and gardeners, so those who were needing to work their soil might be able to. Many worked their gardens when it was too wet, which really messes up the soil especially when there is some clay in it. I sure appreciate some dry cool days...
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Adopt Jack and Jill
(Community ~ 06/15/19)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary Jack andJill are 8-week-old Chihuahuas. They are full of energy and are available for adoption at Safe Harbor; call (573) 243-9823.
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Generosity
(Community ~ 06/15/19)
Buchheit of Jackson raised $400 for the Jackson High School FFA chapter and $313 for the Saxony Lutheran FFA chapter. Customers of each Buchheit store raised funds for the FFA promotion from Feb. 13 through 26 by purchasing donation cards at the registers. Customers received an exclusive FFA coupon to use in store with their donation. The money raised goes toward supporting FFA members and agricultural education. Buchheit donated a total of $3,468.00 to local FFA chapters in 2019...
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Southeast Missouri State University Spring 2019 Dean's list
(Local News ~ 06/15/19)
The following students were named to the Southeast Missouri State University Spring 2019 dean's list. Altenburg, Missouri: Noah Franke, Linzie Weaver. Anna, Illinois: Mackenzie Boget, Jada Hudson, Madison Jacobs, Katrina Karsen, Noah Prater, Tanner Stadelbacher...
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National Park Rangers to host paddling clinics, guided floats
(Community ~ 06/15/19)
A busy summer schedule for the Ozark National Scenic Riverways includes several learning opportunities for area residents related to river safety. Park rangers have expanded the number of dates this year for the American Canoe Association paddling clinics and guided floats because of the high amount of interest at previous events, explained Dena Matteson, chief of interpretation, planning and partnerships at the Riverways...
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Jackson High School second semester
(Honor Roll ~ 06/15/19)
Jackson High School Second semester Scholastic Honor Roll 10th grade: Duncan Brown, Arabella Grant, Elijah Jones, Winston Pais, Noah Sparks. 11th grade: Blake Barnes, Abigail Gates, Mara Golden, Taylor Goodson, Piper Guilliams, Christopher Krewson, Austin Lafave, Rilee Leckie, Caitlin Meinke, Meredith Perez, Reagan Peters, Benjamin Petzoldt, Elizabeth Schell, Kaitlyn Scott, Kyle Seabaugh, Sierra Skinner...
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Meridan Junior and Senior High School fourth quarter
(Honor Roll ~ 06/15/19)
Meridian Junior and Senior High School High honor roll 6th grade: Jared Bunting, Karma Hightower, Bryce Rutledge. 7th grade: Kerra Criddle, Alyssa Harris, Landon Herera, Alia Houston, Cole Kaufman, Matthew Masters, Alange Matthews, LeAjah Patterson, Dranaja Rogers, Sara Williams, Logan Wood...
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The secret of Uncle Joe
(Column ~ 06/15/19)
In a few months, I'll be 61 years old. I like this time in my life, perhaps more than any other time that has come before. Recently, I learned something that rattled my general sense of equanimity. Interested in family history, lately I've been investigating my maternal roots, ancestors I've never met but about whom bits and pieces have been shared over the years...
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Rest in God
(Column ~ 06/15/19)
On a recent Friday, I felt tired. More than tired, actually; I felt exhausted, the kind where I questioned my ability to physically do one more thing. My strength was gone, and my will was gone; I felt physically, mentally and spiritually depleted. It had been a busy, hard week; I was done. I needed to rest...
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Living one life within another
(Column ~ 06/15/19)
Are you amazed at how you can go from doing one thing to performing another? If your life is anything like mine, you know that things become very sticky sometimes. The happenings that take place, daily, sometimes weigh me down. If I don't watch myself, I can become overwhelmed and pressured. I wonder if whatever I'm experiencing will ever end...
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Gardening with dad
(Column ~ 06/15/19)
As I was growing up, I was very aware of gardens. My grandparents would take me out to the back lot and I would watch as they picked tomatoes and beans. I would pick a few, but got bored very easily and decided to run and jump in the dirt. Now that was fun...
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Relax marijuana dispensary buffer
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/15/19)
I am writing with regard to medical marijuana dispensaries in the City of Cape Girardeau. With the experience I have living just off Broadway in the city, I would welcome the dispensary to be within 200 feet of my home verses a restaurant. Does having dispensaries close to churches and schools really matter? Would you not allow a CVS or Walgreens in those areas? Medical marijuana dispensaries are exactly the same thing except they are selling THC in another form. ...
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Celebrating our dads on Father's Day
(Editorial ~ 06/15/19)
Editor's note: The following is our annual Father's Day editorial. The best fathers are the best teachers. They teach us how to throw a fastball, set a hook, tie our shoes, ride a bike. They teach us right from wrong, good from bad. They teach us humor and humility, discipline and decency...
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Police report 6-16-19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/15/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Brandon Coleman, 25, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Arrests n Cedric Howard, 20, of Charleston, Missouri, was arrested on suspicion of vision- obscuring material...
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Trump names 'border czar'
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Friday said he was bringing a longtime lawman and enthusiastic supporter out of retirement to serve as "border czar" as his administration struggles with a worsening crisis his hard-line immigration policies have failed to stem...
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Premature migrant baby found at Texas Border Patrol facility
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas. She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature and held in detention instead of where the advocate believes the baby should have been -- at a hospital neonatal unit...
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Debates: Biden, Sanders on 2nd night; Warren on 1st
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
NEW YORK -- NBC set the lineup for its two-night debate of 2020 presidential contenders later this month, with a top-heavy second session pitting former Vice President Joe Biden onstage against 2016 Democratic runner-up Bernie Sanders, the youthful Mayor Pete Buttigieg and California Sen. Kamala Harris...
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Emails: Trump official pressed NASA on climate science
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
WASHINGTON -- Once a skeptic about climate change, Jim Bridenstine came around to the prevailing view of scientists before he took over as NASA administrator. That evolution did not sit well with a Trump environmental adviser, nor a think-tank analyst he was consulting, according to newly disclosed emails illustrating how skepticism of global warming has found a beachhead in the Trump White House...
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Trump: 'Of course' tell FBI about foreign dirt
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Friday "of course" he would go to the FBI or the attorney general if a foreign power offered him dirt about an opponent. It was an apparent walkback from his earlier comments he might not contact law enforcement in such a situation...
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Kansas Supreme Court says education funding is adequate
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas' highest court declared Friday the state finally is spending enough money on its public schools under a new education funding law but refused to end a lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago because it wants to monitor future funding by the Legislature...
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Calls mount for compromise over unpopular Hong Kong bill
(International News ~ 06/15/19)
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam faced calls from both outside and within her government Friday to delay extradition legislation spurring massive protests. Some members of the Executive Council, Hong Kong's Cabinet, said she should perhaps rethink plans to rush the bills' passage. ...
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Major oil companies commit to carbon pricing at Vatican
(International News ~ 06/15/19)
VATICAN CITY -- Some of the world's major oil producers committed Friday to supporting "economically meaningful" carbon pricing regimes after a Vatican climate summit and a personal appeal from Pope Francis to avoid "perpetrating a brutal act of injustice" against the poor and future generations...
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Small donors, not French tycoons, help pay Notre Dame workers
(International News ~ 06/15/19)
PARIS -- The billionaire French donors who publicly proclaimed they would give hundreds of millions to rebuild Notre Dame have not yet paid a penny toward the restoration of the French national monument, according to church and business officials. Instead, it's mainly American and French individuals, via Notre Dame charitable foundations, behind the first donations paying the bills and salaries for up to 150 workers employed by the cathedral since the April 15 fire that devastated its roof and caused its masterpiece spire to collapse. ...
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Confrontation at burial of Ebola victim
(International News ~ 06/15/19)
KARAMBI, Uganda -- At last the pickup truck carrying the Ebola victim's coffin arrived. The woman's relatives were relieved. But a small group of young people hissed in anger. They watched the burial team carefully put on protective suits and gloves, itching for a fight. They grabbed the rope meant to lower the coffin into the grave and used it to block the truck's path. One brandished a stick...
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Sudan military admits violations with protests
(International News ~ 06/15/19)
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan's ruling military acknowledged security forces committed violations when they moved in to disperse a protest sit-in camp outside the military headquarters in Khartoum last week. The spokesman for the ruling military council, Gen. Shams Eddin Kabashi, told reporters at a news conference late Thursday an investigation was underway and several military officers were already in custody for alleged "deviation" from the action plan set by military leaders...
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Trump says he won't fire advisor Conway over Hatch Act violations
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said he won't fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after a federal watchdog agency recommended her removal for repeatedly violating a law limiting political activity by government workers. Trump told "Fox & Friends" he was briefed on the Office of Special Counsel investigation Thursday and said "it looks to me like they're trying to take away her right of free speech and that's just not fair."...
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Neltha Wills
(Obituary ~ 06/15/19)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Neltha H. Wills, 96, of Perryville, died Friday, June 14, 2019, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be held 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Ford and Young Funeral Home Inc. of Perryville. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, with the Rev. Matthew Marks officiating. Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery...
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Leon Sander
(Obituary ~ 06/15/19)
Leon D. Sander, 80, of Scott City died Thursday, June 13, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 29, 1938, in Tilsit to Herbert and Hulda Fluegge Sander. He married Carron Rose Ham on Jan. 23, 1981. He was a truck driver for Marquette Cement Co. and was a member of Illmo Baptist Church in Scott Ctiy...
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Gloria Miller
(Obituary ~ 06/15/19)
** Gloria Miller Gloria Miller, 93, of Scott City died Friday, June 14, 2019, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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Dr. George Ketcham
(Obituary ~ 06/15/19)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Dr. George Ketcham, professor emeritus of Southeast Missouri State University, passed away at his home in Springfield on Friday, May 31, 2019. He was 90 years old. He passed in his sleep peacefully. His sister, Virginia Cushing of Kansas City, Missouri, and his son, Charles Ketcham of Springfield, survive him...
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Michael Farrar
(Obituary ~ 06/15/19)
Michael James Farrar, 59, of Jackson died Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at Heartland Care and Rehab in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 20, 1959, in Perryville, Missouri, to Frank J. and Iola Ann Clements Farrar Jr. He and Helen Cordia were married Aug. 4, 1990, at Cape Girardeau...
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Alma Coomer
(Obituary ~ 06/15/19)
Alma Gertrude Coomer, 102, of Arbor passed away Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at her home. She was born Dec. 11, 1916, at High Ridge, Missouri, daughter of John W. and Clara A. Hendricks Wondel. Alma and Robert Rufus Coomer were united in marriage in April 1935 in Cape Girardeau County, and he preceded her in death June 29, 1996...
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Trump blames Iran for tanker attacks but calls for talks
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but he also held out hope implicit U.S. threats to use force will yield talks with the Islamic Republic as the Pentagon considers beefing up defenses in the Persian Gulf area...
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U.S. Naval War College is getting its 1st female president
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A helicopter pilot who heads a military command in Guam will be the first female leader of the U.S. Naval War College, the Navy announced Friday, days after removing the college president who came under investigation over questionable behavior...
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AP Explains: Juneteenth celebrates end of slavery in the U.S.
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
WASHINGTON -- A holiday spreading across the U.S. and beyond, Juneteenth is considered the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. It was originally celebrated June 19, the day Union soldiers in 1865 told enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, the Civil War had ended and they were free...
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Family: Baby cut from slain Chicago woman's womb dies
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
CHICAGO -- An infant boy who was cut from a Chicago woman's womb with a butcher knife died Friday at a hospital where he had been in grave condition since the April attack that killed his mother, family spokeswomen said. Yovanny Jadiel Lopez died at Christ Medical Center in suburban Oak Lawn from a severe brain injury, according to a statement posted on Facebook by family spokeswoman Julie Contreras, who expressed "great sadness" in announcing the baby's death. ...
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Push for public vote on Missouri abortion law hits roadblock
(State News ~ 06/15/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Efforts to put a new Missouri law banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy to a public vote hit another roadblock. Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by prominent Republican donor David Humphreys, who is seeking to force GOP Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft to approve his referendum petition on the new law...
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Happiness is...
(Submitted Story ~ 06/15/19)
Donuts at the Riverfront Market
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Randy Kilburn Jrs First Fish!
(Submitted Story ~ 06/15/19)
Randy Kilburn Jr, age 9; caught his first fish (bass) this weekend on June 14th at Whippoorwill Lake while fishing with his dad Randy Kilburn Sr and his mom Sirena Kilburn. Randy loves spending time at the lake every weekend meeting new friends.
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Out of the past: June 15
(Out of the Past ~ 06/15/19)
Union Electric Co. is working at the William-Sheridan intersection this week to upgrade its gas mains as part of an ongoing project to replace cast iron mains along William Street; UE is installing a section of 10-inch, high pressure, steel gas main beneath the intersection...
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Out of the past: June 16
(Out of the Past ~ 06/15/19)
Boyd Gaming Corp. consultant Dan Davis is in Cape Girardeau to help coordinate a petition drive for the 8th congressional District; the petition will seek 20,000 signatures from this district to help secure a gambling amendment on the Nov. 8 state ballot...
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Prayer 6/16/19
(Prayer ~ 06/15/19)
Help us, O God, to make sound decisions when facing complex problems. Amen.
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O'Rourke: White Americans don't know full story of slavery
(National News ~ 06/15/19)
BEAUFORT, S.C. -- Beto O'Rourke took a path somewhat less traveled Friday, meeting with a small group representing a community of slave descendants in South Carolina as he strives to make connections with the black voters who will play a dominant role in next year's Southern presidential primaries...
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Bloomfield museum brings history to life
(Column ~ 06/15/19)
You might know Bloomfield, Missouri as the small town with a Purina factory. Or for its Christmas high school basketball tournament. One of Missouri's cemeteries for veterans is located in Bloomfield. But did you know that this rural Missouri town of less than 2,000 people is home to the Stars and Stripes Museum and Library?...
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Edwin Eltzroth
(Obituary ~ 06/15/19)
Edwin L. Eltzroth, 96, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Nov. 6, 1922, in Indianapolis to the late Carter W. Sr. and Glades Roshear Eltzroth. Edwin worked for General Motors in product design and had resided in Indiana most of his life...
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