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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1917

NEWPORT — Silva Fowler, aged 14, mysteriously disappeared from her home here yesterday. Her father, a mechanic employed at Loumsted, believes that she has met with foul play. The girl, who has been picking cotton for a farmer near the city, left the field at 9 o’clock yesterday morning, going to her employer and collecting the money for her work. Since that time she has not been seen. A party is searching for her.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1967

■ Four boys 10 to 14 were turned over to juvenile authorities Thursday, the police said, after they captured two of them inside the WalMart Discount Store at the new Levy Shopping Center near Thirty-eighth and Pike Avenue early Thursday. The four were accused of 13 burglaries committed in the last six weeks in the neighborhood. Two of the boys implicated the other two, who denied taking part, officers said. The Wal-Mart store has been burglarized three times in the last two weeks.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1992

HOT SPRINGS — The mother of a 16-month-old alleged murder victim was warned of possible child abuse at least six weeks before the infants death, she testified Monday. “She asked, ‘Who’s beating this baby?’” mother Mary Ellen Robbins testified, quoting Dr. Rheeta Stecker of Hot Springs. Stecker reportedly asked the question July 29 while treating infant Laura A. Fullbright for facial swelling and bruises. Stecker had treated Laura for a broken arm June 10. Asked what her reply was, Robbins said: “Nobody. I left with the impression that she (Stecker) was going to report it just as a precaution.”

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 2007

■ Two people are recovering from injuries after separate accidental shootings Thursday evening, according to Little Rock police. The two calls were about three hours apart. One involved a boyfriend and girlfriend, and the other involved an individual, police said. Accidental shootings are uncommon — there are usually only “one or two a year,” said Lt. Terry Hastings, police spokesman. “Very rarely do we have accidental shootings,” he said. “Having two in one night is very odd.” Police said 22-year-old Bryan McDaniel was playing with a .38-caliber “snub-nosed” revolver when he accidentally fired the gun, striking his girlfriend, Jennifer Leboeuf, 28, in the chest.