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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1917

HOT SPRINGS — More than 2,000 men, women, and children, led by Governor Brough, gave to Jane Addams of Chicago the most enthusiastic reception any woman in public life has ever received in Arkansas, when the noted settlement worker delivered a patriotic message to the women of the state relative to food conservation. Miss Adams spoke under the auspices of the educational branch of the Department of the Interior.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1967

TEXARKANA — A man forced his way into a house here about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, shot a 10-year-old boy in the shoulder and fled, taking the boy’s mother as hostage. A suspect was caught about 11:45 at Prescott by Nevada County Sheriff Arthur Wicker and two Prescott city policemen. The woman, Mrs. Bill Wagner, the daughter-inlaw of Miller County Deputy Sheriff Jimmy Wagner, was not harmed.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1992

JASPER — Newton County Sheriff Ray Watkins was slow to believe it Monday when U.S. customs officers told him they had Ronald Milton Smith in custody. “I never thought I’d see him again,” said Watkins, who arrested Smith nearly 20 years ago. “I thought he was dead.” Smith, 48, and three other men escaped from the Newton County Jail in 1973 while awaiting trial on charges of manufacturing a controlled substance — 300 pounds of marijuana. The other three were recaptured within two months. Smith was never seen again. Until Friday.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 2007

• Seven weeks ago, Eudora resident Gwendolyn Dotson called 911 and asked for an ambulance to come get her 13-year-old son Gavin, who is plagued with a rare heart disease and was having a seizure. The ambulance company, Emergency Ambulance Services Inc., notified her that a truck was coming to transport the teen to Chicot Memorial Hospital in Lake Village. Minutes later, Dotson said she received a call from dispatch notifying her that the ambulance service had a change of plans and was unable to make the 16-mile run from Lake Village to Eudora to pick up Gavin, who by that point had passed out from lack of oxygen. For the past year, the city of Eudora has had no guaranteed ambulance service to transfer residents to hospitals, a problem the local 911 coordinator says reverts the town near the Louisiana border back to the Stone Age.