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100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 8, 1913

Fake deaf mutes are abroad in the land, asking charity from the public and have been operating successfully lately in many towns in Arkansas, was the information received yesterday by Secretary M.A. Auerbach of the United Charities. Two of these “deaf mutes,” according to information received yesterday by Mr. Auerbach, made $250 in Little Rock, and while plying their vocation in Fort Smith, were arrested and exposed. When summoned before the court they recovered their speech and were convicted on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses.

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 8, 1963

The State Health Department is urging the public to see their physicians about initial or stimulating doses of Salk or Sabin Polio vaccine. Dr. Edgar J. Easley, assistant state health officer, issued the appeal along with a report on the results of polio and the vaccine programs in the state. In a table on the state and Pulaski County for the last 10 years, it is seen that the cases of polio had diminished since advent of the vaccine.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 8, 1988

Gov. Bill Clinton found himself on the defensive Monday about a Dukakis-Bentsen news release being sent out with copies of Clinton’s most recent weekly travel schedule. The matter was raised by a reporter following Clinton’s appearance before the Arkansas Association of Elementary School Principals at the Excelsior Hotel. The Dukakis-Bentsen news release described a “flyaround” that Clinton and other Arkansas officials made Saturday for Dukakis. Clinton said including the news release did not increase the cost for the state of mailing out his official weekly schedule. Clinton sarcastically said he was glad to see the media interested in such “weighty matters” on the eve of the election. A reporter for Little Rock radio station KARN-AM, 920, who had been the first to raise the question about the news release, said Clinton later apologized about the remark.

10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 8, 2003

Rx Depot stores in Fort Smith and Lowell didn’t open for business Friday, after a U.S. district judge issued an edict a day earlier to stop the national company from distributing Canadian prescription drugs. About 1,000 customers, more than 80 percent of them elderly, purchase Canadian drugs at the Lowell store at up to a 50 percent discount over U.S. prices for similar drugs, store owner Harry Jones said Friday.