RecordsSeptember 13, 2013
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When President Reagan visits Cape Girardeau tomorrow, it will mark the culmination of a week of exhaustive planning; a White House advance team has been here since last Wednesday directing preparations for the visit; the president is scheduled to land at the Cape Girardeau airport on Air Force One about 11:40 a.m...
1988
When President Reagan visits Cape Girardeau tomorrow, it will mark the culmination of a week of exhaustive planning; a White House advance team has been here since last Wednesday directing preparations for the visit; the president is scheduled to land at the Cape Girardeau airport on Air Force One about 11:40 a.m.
The grandstand is full in the evening for the traditional Tuesday tractor pull at the 133rd annual SEMO District Fair at Arena Park; attendance for the day is about 9,191, about the same as last year.
1963
Proceedings at the SEMO District fair yesterday gave way to chaos when an unexpected storm poured three inches of rain over humans and animals alike; many thousands of people were on the fairgrounds when the storm hit.
American citizenship is conferred on three Poplar Bluff, Mo., residents in a ceremony held at the State College auditorium; those who are naturalized are Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Piercey, natives of Canada, and Hedwig A.M. Rabe, a native of Germany; a fourth candidate doesn't report for the ceremony.
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1938
Escaping injury when their automobile overturned on slippery U.S. 61, a mile west of Cape Girardeau, during yesterday's rainstorm, the wives of Jerome "Dizzy" and Paul Dean, baseball's famous pitching brothers, and three other passengers are on their way after a night spent here recuperating from shock and excitement; a Buick "Roadmaster" driven by Mrs. Dizzy Dean skidded in the mud on the pavement and overturned on its side on the shoulder on the west side of the road.
Formal contracts are signed in the office of Jamieson and Spearl, architects, in St. Louis, for design of the library building at the Teachers College.
1913
Eddie Lamprich, the accommodating salesman at the Caldwell-Sherman Clothing Store, has resigned his position and left for Canada, where he will join his parents who are living there.
N.D. Browning, a prominent young farmer living near Jackson, passed through Cape Girardeau yesterday on his way to Louisville, Ky., where he will enter a fine Berkshire hog at the Kentucky State Fair next week.
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