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100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 6, 1917

ARKADELPHIA — The case of Alvis Hopkins, on trial for the death of his wife, was given to the jury this afternoon at the conclusion of six hours of argument. No verdict had been returned early tonight. During the argument by Attorney T.N. Wilson of the defense, Hopkins gave way to the emotion that he had kept under control during the trial and wept. His three small children sitting with him added to the pathos of the scene by crying bitterly.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 6, 1967

■ Teacher strikes and boycotts spread throughout the United States Tuesday, threatening to disrupt the beginning of classes in dozens of cities. Teachers in 34 school districts in Michigan refused to go to work Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor William Milliken reported. Last-minute negotiations brought contract settlements in other Michigan districts but Milliken said agreements had not been reached in 51 districts. In East St. Louis, Ill., a teacher boycott affecting 24,000 pupils entered its second week Tuesday, with only 300 of 920 teachers reporting for work.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 6, 1992

■ If you are a young man who has been boating or swimming on an Arkansas lake or river and you’ve been drinking, your chance of dying is high, according to a recent study by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. P.J. Spaul, media relations manager for the Little Rock District of the Engineers, points to the 12-year study of drownings at Engineers facilities to back up the deadly scenario. Of the 308 victims in the study, males outnumbered females more than 2-to-1. Well over half were ages 11 to 30.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 6, 2007

CONWAY — A former Faulkner County jailer who authorities say helped an Arkansas prisoner flee to Indiana with her and her three small children contends she was not a willing participant in the escape, her mother said Wednesday. Jean Mendoza of Conway said she talked by telephone last week with her daughter, Sarah Bergmann, after police and the FBI arrested Bergmann and the inmate, James S. Johnson, in Elkhart, Ind. “Her information to me was that this guy had threatened her and she was scared, and that’s what it was all about,” Mendoza said in an interview while she cared for Bergmann’s children — ages 3, 2 and 10 months.