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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1917

■ When Stanley made his remarkable trip to the wilds of Africa to find the missing explorer, Livingstone, he found him all right, but Mr. Livingstone declared he was not lost. He knew where he was all the time. Much the same condition applies to Mrs. Rachel Elrod, who six weeks ago disappeared from the home of her son, Herman Elrod, in Saline county. A prolonged search was made for her. Yesterday she was “found” pursuing the even tenor of her way, domiciled in a hotel at Hot Springs, quite unaware of the hue and cry and denying that she was lost at all.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1967

BENTON — Orren A. Miller, 58, of 1211 Pike Avenue, North Little Rock, was injured fatally Saturday afternoon in a head on collision on U.S. Highway 70 about eight miles west of here. State Trooper Chuck King said Mrs. Miller, a passenger in her husband’s car, was treated at a Benton hospital and released. James M. Taylor, 37, of Oklahoma City, Okla., the driver of the other car, was charged with negligent homicide and released on $1,500 bond, King said. Taylor was alone.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1992

■ HOT SPRINGS — Being the Snark of the Universe is fun but not as much as it used to be, reigning Snark Jeff Loth said Wednesday. The tongue-in-cheek International Order of the HooHoo has found itself pushed closer and closer to taking on a more active, serious role on behalf of the timber industry employees that make up its membership, Loth said. “We’ve always avoided that,” Loth said in an interview during the group’s 100th annual convention at Hot Springs. “But the timber industry is facing its hardest times since the Great Depression” of the 1930s. The group has always been a social organization, not a political group, Loth said.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 2007

■ During a medical career that spanned more than 40 years in Little Rock starting at the turn of the last century, Dr. Annie Schoppach, the first woman believed to have graduated from the University of Arkansas Medical Department, welcomed thousands of new babies into the world. On a muggy, overcast afternoon Sunday, dozens of people gathered in Little Rock’s Oakland Cemetery to pay tribute to the pioneer. Included in the group was Schoppach’s great-granddaughter, who arrived from Chicago to talk about her historic ancestor.