25 years ago: July 14, 1983

The Florsheim Shoe Co. has purchased the Superior Electric Products Co. building on Nash Road in the Cape Girardeau Greater Industrial Park and will be relocating the plant on North Main Street to the new site.

The nomination of Cape Girardeau attorney Stephen N. Limbaugh as a federal judge has been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee and needs only confirmation by the full Senate to become official.

50 years ago: July 14, 1958

The need of a new post office at Cape Girardeau is under study, but when the survey will be completed isn't known; however, if a new building is found to be necessary, it could be provided only through a commercial leasing program.

The Cape Girardeau City Council discusses construction of a bridge over Walker Creek, where one was removed because it caused a bottleneck of floodwater in the Galladay Addition; the issue comes up when Carlston Bohnsack of St. Andrew Lutheran Church asked the council what plans there are for putting in a bridge; the church is erecting a new building a half block to the north.

75 years ago: July 14, 1933

Rudy Heise and Russell Matsen have secured the dance pavilion at the clubhouse at Fairground Park for the season; they will open a series of dances Saturday night and hereafter will have dances on Wednesday and Saturday nights; Heise and his Seven Aces will furnish music for the dances.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Health has requested that the city council secure an incinerator, as the present method of having unpaid collectors haul away the town's garbage has proven unsatisfactory.

100 years ago: July 14, 1907

A.J. Flentge, the Broadway meat dealer, brings plans for his new hotel to The Republican newspaper office in the morning; the hotel will occupy the corner of Broadway and Fountain Street, opposite the Himmelberger-Harrison Building.

Jacob S. Kirby, who has an international reputation as a maker of sorghum, is in Cape Girardeau buying paint to coat McLain's Chapel at Oriole; he was awarded the contract Monday; Kirby says the "molasses crop" this year will be immense.

— Sharon K. Sanders