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100 YEARS AGO May 27, 1917

CONWAY — J. D. Smith of Martinville, 20 miles from here, son of County Judge E. L. Smith of Faulkner county, and his daughter, Geraldine, aged 4, were seriously injured shortly after 6 o’clock tonight, when an auto in which they were riding was struck by Iron Mountain passenger train No. 203, southbound, near the station here. Both received internal injuries, the seriousness of which it is impossible to determine.

25 YEARS AGO May 27, 1992

■ The North Little Rock City Council decided in a 5-3 vote Tuesday night to spend $52,500 for riverfront property on which to develop a jogging and fitness trail. “I do not believe we ought to spend that kind of money on a jogging trail when there are other needs in the city,” Alderman Olen Thomas said. “I don’t believe they (residents) will use it. It’s dangerous down there.”