Jeffrey Jackson
NewsFebruary 28, 1999
LITTLE-KNOWN ELVIS PRESLEY PERFORMS AT ARENA BUILDINGAlmost a year to the day after recording his first hit song but a few months before he became an international sensation, Elvis Presley came to Cape Girardeau. On July 20, 1955, Presley performed at the A.C. Brase Arena building in Cape Girardeau as a part of a "da...NewsFebruary 28, 1999
CARRY NATION STIRS THE REGION AS PART OF HER TEMPERANCE TOURA Kansas woman, known nationally for her sometimes violent involvement in the temperance movement at the turn of the century, stirred the crowds when she brought her anti-alcohol crusade to Southeast Missouri. Carry Amelia Moore Nation visited Cape Girardeau for tw...NewsFebruary 28, 1999
REGION CHANGES TO MAKE WAY FOR NEW ERA DURING TURBULENT '60s, '70sLess than two months before his assassination in Los Angeles, New York Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy took time away from campaigning in the Indiana primary to visit Cape Girardeau. On April 15, 1968, just 41 days before his death, ...NewsFebruary 28, 1999
FIREFIGHTERS SAVE 7-YEAR-OLD DEJAN FROM BURNING HOSUEWhen firefighters found 7-year-old Dejan Kocevski locked in the basement of his Cape Girardeau burning home in April 1982, the boy was unconscious and barely breathing. His lungs were filling with smoke, and firefighters said he was within minutes of death when the...NewsFebruary 28, 1999
TALLEST MAN IN HISTORY PAYS THREE VISITS TO CAPE GIRARDEAUThe tallest man who ever lived visited Cape Girardeau three times during the 1930s as the guest of local shoe stores for whom he was doing promotional work. Robert Pershing Wadlow, known to many as the Alton Giant, visited Cape Girardeau in 1932, 1936 and 1939, as ...NewsFebruary 16, 1999
MARDI GRAS' BEGINNINGS EMBEDDED IN FAITH, LENTTo some today is Fat Tuesday. To others it is Carnival or Shrove Tuesday. To most it is Mardi Gras. The image that many have of Mardi Gras is of wild parties and elaborate parades through the streets of New Orleans with masked and costumed revelers...NewsFebruary 15, 1999
MEDIA MUST RESTORE ITS CREDIBILITYA two-time Pulitzer prize nominee and former White House correspondent warned an audience at Southeast Missouri State University Sunday that the media was in danger of losing freedom of the press unless it restored its credibility in the public's eyes...FeaturesFebruary 15, 1999
INSULT TO INJURY: SEX, LIES AND WHITE HOUSE TAPES: THE PRESIDENTS AS PINOCCHIO"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." -- Groucho Marx So, just who is it we think we're kidding with this whole Presidents' Day nonsense, eh? First of all, the name itself -- Presidents' Day -- is a crock. Despi...NewsFebruary 14, 1999
LEGENDS OF VALENTINE"For this was sent on St. Valentine's day When every fowl comes there to choose his mate." -- Geoffrey Chaucer "Parliament of Fowls." Valentine. It is name associated with romance and love, with roses and boxes of chocolates, with starry-eyed lovers sending message...NewsFebruary 14, 1999
LAST CALL: LAWMAKERS TRYING TO CLOSE LOOPHOLES IN LIQUOR LICENSE LAWSCape Girardeau's police chief and a police captain will be at the Capitol Tuesday to testify before the Missouri General Assembly about what they say is a loophole in the state's liquor license laws. They say the laws allow businesses to bypass the local control of...Advertisement
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