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Captured on Film
Circus performers visiting Cape Girardeau for the Southeast Missourian's 50th anniversary celebration brought joy to polio patients at Saint Francis Hospital on June 7, 1954.
David Faris, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Faris of Cape Girardeau, who was stricken with polio in August 1952, receives a copy of a proclamation from Mayor Narvol Randol setting aside the two weeks Aug. 6 to 30, 1954, as the emergency March of Dimes period in Cape Girardeau. The youngster is accompanied by Louise Steimle of the physical therapy department of the polio center, Saint. Francis Hospital.
David Faris, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Faris of Cape Girardeau, who was stricken with polio in August 1952, receives a copy of a proclamation from Mayor Narvol Randol setting aside the two weeks Aug. 6 to 30, 1954, as the emergency March of Dimes period in Cape Girardeau. The youngster is accompanied by Louise Steimle of the physical therapy department of the polio center, Saint. Francis Hospital.G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive

Circus folks, performing in Cape Girardeau as part of the Southeast Missourian's 50th anniversary celebration, visit with polio patients at Saint Francis Hospital on June 7, 1954. The children are Ruthie De Hart, 5, of Malden in the bed and Sondra C. Dickerson, 6, of Mound City, Illinois, in the wheelchair.

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