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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1918
HOPE — Miss Sarah C. Shields, local attorney, is receiving congratulations on having stood a most successful examination for admission to the practice before all the courts of the state. She made a very high grade in most of the important quizzes, the figure being 100. The examination was conducted at Prescott by three of the ablest lawyers in this district. Miss Shields is a graduate of Kentucky Law School and has taken post-graduate work at the Cumberland Law School in Tennessee. She enjoys the distinction of being the only woman lawyer in this section.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25, 1968 More than 75 per cent of all scheduled commercial airline departures from Little Rock soon will be pure jet or jet powered, according to the Traffic and Transportation Department of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce. Starting February 12, there will be 18 pure jet flights daily at Little Rock. Jet powered flights will total 12 and there will be nine daily departures by piston-type aircraft.
25 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25, 1993 State officials may give some of the credit for higher alcohol tax revenues to people celebrating President Clinton’s election, but several liquor distributors say last fall’s threat of a trade war with Europe actually led to the surge. “There’s no doubt that local hotels and restaurants were where all the (Clinton) supporters were,” said Jim Davis, president of Central Distributors Inc. of Little Rock. “But I brought in several (cargo) containers of white wine to protect my business.”
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25, 2008
A Pulaski County Circuit judge said he was ready to transfer a 16-year-old capital-murder suspect’s case to juvenile court Thursday but two things happened: He saw the video of store owner Ghazi “Jeff” Hammad being killed and he heard Robert Michaelyn “Michael” Williams testify that he’d been forced at gunpoint by his co-defendant to participate in the July robbery. Williams took the stand to convince Judge Willard Proctor Jr. that he is more child than man, but the judge ruled that Williams should be tried as an adult on capital murder, attempted capital murder and aggravated robbery charges. “The one thing I have a problem with … it’s the honesty factor,” Proctor said as he announced his ruling. “I just do not believe a gun was put to his head and he did all these things.”