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100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 9, 1917

TEXARKANA — Florence, the 18-month-old daughter of James Young, was drowned in a small tub of water this afternoon. The little tot went out on the back porch and, failing to return for nearly an hour, or to answer repeated calls, the mother went to see about her and found her dead. She had fallen into the tub head first. The water was only six inches deep. Mr. Young is working at the cantonment at Little Rock.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1967

BENTON — A Saline County Circuit jury has given a judgment of $194,800 to the family of a woman killed in a wreck near Little Rock in March. It was the largest amount ever awarded in Arkansas in a wrongful death lawsuit. The judgment was against the Moon Distributing Company, a wholesale liquor firm, and Paul E. Hastings, the driver of one of its trucks. The jury returned the verdict last Thursday and it was signed Tuesday by Judge Henry B. Means of Malvern. Hastings was driving a truck that was towing a dump truck and his father, Harry Hastings Sr., president of the Company, was in the cab with him.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1992

■ The chairman of the Arkansas Juvenile Advisory Group said Sunday that he is confident the Clinton administration will renew emphasis on the juvenile justice system — an issue he said has been long ignored by Presidents Reagan and Bush. “We had to fight to keep the Office of Juvenile Justice open during the Reagan-Bush years,” Jerry Walsh, the group’s chairman said. The office is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Walsh made the remarks Sunday afternoon during a break from a meeting of the National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 2007

■ Colorful beads made in China horrified the parents of a Jacksonville toddler who swallowed part of a toy set and passed out when their coating metabolized into a chemical compound known as the “date rape drug.” “I thought he was going to die. I didn’t want to tell my kids that, of course, but I thought he was going to die,” said Shelby Esses, whose son Jack swallowed a handful of Spin Master Aqua Dots the day before Halloween. “It was horrible.” In the latest recall involving Chinese toymakers, the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday ordered Aqua Dots off store shelves. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads.