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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 4, 1918
NEWPORT — It is reported that the City of Muskogee, one of the largest boats operating on White river, between Newport and Memphis, was sunk below Clarendon by an ice gorge. For many years the City of Muskogee was owned by Capt. F. L. Inman. It is reported that the boat had a cargo of 2,200 bags of rice. Many other boats on White river are in serious danger of being sunk.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 4, 1968
CROSSETT — The causes that would permit the alleged barbaric acts reported in the state prison must be wiped out, Representative David H. Pryor said here Saturday in a speech in which he called the Arkansas Penitentiary “Arkansas’s shame.” “Because of recent [Supreme] Court decisions, it is not too preposterous to assume that if our state fails to do this job properly and does not respond quickly and surely enough, then the federal government could foreseeably step into what is now and should be a state problem,” Pryor warned.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 4, 1993
Police remained unsure Wednesday about how an infant and his 2-year-old brother managed to get cocaine in their circulatory systems sometime before they were admitted to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital emergency room about 7 p.m. Monday. A state investigator spent Wednesday interviewing the mother, father, and uncle of the two boys, as well as hospital staff members. Edward Jerome Hayes, 4 months old, and Lomarr Michael Hayes, 2, were in good condition Wednesday in the hospital’s “baby unit.”
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 4, 2008
Arkansas attorneys and their advisors are turning more and more to the Internet to research everything from case law to potential jurors, though the practice does have its drawbacks. “You can get a better idea of the whole person” from their MySpace and Facebook pages, said pollster Zoe Oakleaf, whose Little Rock-based Opinion Research Associates also offers trial consulting services. MySpace and Facebook are social-networking Web sites where members can, and frequently do, post detailed personal information and photographs about themselves and link those postings to friends and other site members, some of whom they might never have physically met.