Out of the past 10/19/04

25 years ago: Oct. 19, 1979

The owner of the land and trailer out of which the controversial Deja Vu Massage Parlor at Leemon is operating has promised concerned residents that he will consult his attorney in an effort to determine if the present lease with the parlor can be terminated immediately.

Layton Pickard, a Charleston, Mo., businessman and longtime worker for improved health-care services in Southeast Missouri, receives the fifth Honorary Life Award from Friends of Saint Francis.

50 years ago: Oct. 19, 1954

A labor survey seeking to determine how many women and girls would be available for work in a proposed shoe factory in Oak Ridge is being taken by business leaders at the suggestion of company officials.

Between 3,000 and 4,000 people line the streets of Jackson in the morning to view the parade of bands taking part in the 10th annual Marching Band Festival of the Southeast Missouri School Band Association.

75 years ago: Oct. 19, 1929

More than 100 Girardeans, headed by Mayor Edward Barks, attended the Mississippi River bridge dedication at Cairo, Ill., yesterday; the weather was perfect, and the largest crowd ever in Cairo was in attendance.

Dr. G.B. Schulz enters the debate on the pages of The Missourian over which business in Cape Girardeau first had electricity; Schulz says the drug store at 609 Broadway, then owned by William H. Coerver, was the first business house to install electric lights.

100 years ago: Oct. 19, 1904

A dispatch from New Orleans says Capt. W.A. Duke of the Natchez Transportation Co., and also acting for the Mississippi Packet Co., has employed 200 white men to come here from Chicago to take the places of black roustabouts, who have been demanding better wages for their services.

Five hundred feet of hose for the Mill Town fire station have arrived and are inspected in the afternoon.

-- Sharon K. Sanders