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100 YEARS AGO March 5, 1923
ESSEN, Germany — Essen last night experienced the wildest night since the beginning of the occupation. In the early Sunday morning hours, food stores were looted and others broken into by armed mobs, said to be composed of the unemployed. One of the largest cabarets, the Trocadero, was held up last night, and several hundred patrons were robbed of all their cash. This robbery was carried out by 15 or 20 men who, the Germans declare, were Communists who had taken advantage of the absence of the security police, which force has not yet been adequately replaced by municipal police. The city is without police protection at present, and many of the residents, in fear of further robberies or violence by bands in the streets, are arming themselves as best they can for their own protection.
50 YEARS AGO March 5, 1973
WASHINGTON — The orange moon dust brought back by the Apollo 17 astronauts was not volcanic after all, government scientists reported Sunday, but is made of tiny glass beads, probably created by an ancient meteor. Astronaut Harrison (Jack) Schmitt suggested, while gathering the strange orange soil on the moon, that it might have come from relatively recent volcanic activity and earthbound scientists hoped it would tell them something about the seemingly cold moon’s inner life.
25 YEARS AGO March 5, 1998
FAYETTEVILLE — A hazardous materials cleanup crew siphoned more than 100 gallons of hydraulic fluid from a small lake at a Fayetteville apartment complex Wednesday. The fluid appeared Wednesday morning in one of two lakes at Lakeside Village Apartments, 324 Village Lake Drive, Fire Chief Mickey Jackson said. The fluid came from an automotive garage about six blocks away, Jackson said. Workers at Midas Auto Systems Experts, 2570 N. College Ave., inadvertently flushed the fluid out of the garage and into a storm drain Tuesday night, said Karl Kohler, president of Midas Auto Centers in Arkansas.
10 YEARS AGO March 5, 2013
■ More than two dozen homes were evacuated Monday after an explosion and fire at a natural-gas compression station in Van Buren County, authorities said. Arkansas Department of Emergency Management spokesman Tommy Jackson said the explosion occurred when an unknown amount of natural gas erupted at a BHP Billiton Petroleum station near Shirley, northeast of Clinton. The company said in a statement that the fire started around 1:30 p.m. Monday and was out by 2:15 p.m. The gas company shut down the compressor and the flow of gas from nearby wells. Jackson said 25 homes and 35 to 40 people were evacuated. They were allowed to return home within an hour, according to The Associated Press.