Out of the past 12/19/13

1988

An inspection of the car belonging to Southeast Missouri State University student Jackie L. Lichte, who disappeared in January, gives no clues of the woman's whereabouts; the vehicle was found in the Mississippi River yesterday near Honkers Boat Dock.

The city of Cape Girardeau is looking at the possibility of developing a business park at the municipal airport; the idea will be explored in the $61,950 airport master plan.

1963

Sites for three additional dormitory units to be built whenever funds become available, and location of three high-rise dormitory structures that are on the drawing board, have been approved by the State College Board of Regents; the high-rise dorms will be southeast of Magill Hall of Science in the Home of the Birds area as originally announced, but will be on slightly different spots than originally contemplated.

Traffic is tied up for an hour early in the morning on both sides of the river when the bed from a large coal truck is knocked loose after the bed strikes an overhead beam on the traffic bridge; traffic lines up to the Purple Crackle Club on the Illinois side and is only on the bridge on the Missouri side.

1938

The front page of the Southeast Missourian presents the death notices of several prominent men; John F. Vogelsanger, 80, who was engaged in the hardware business in Cape Girardeau for a half-century, died Saturday of pneumonia; Peter Niswonger, 92, one of the last Civil War veterans in Cape Girardeau County, died here yesterday; Dr. R.P. Dalton, 71, died the same day in Cape Girardeau; and federal court Judge Charles B. Farris died Sunday at his St. Louis home at age 74.

The Cape Girardeau City Council instructs city attorney B. Hugh Smith to prepare an ordinance prohibiting the professional practice of "phrenology, or fortune telling in Cape Girardeau."

1913

About 60 men and boys are employed at plucking and preparing fowl at Jackson's poultry plant; turkeys, geese, chickens and ducks are slaughtered there by the thousand each day.

First Baptist Church is packed in the evening with a happy and expectant congregation for the annual Christmas entertainment of the large and growing Sunday school.

__Sharon K. Sanders__