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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1916

PARAGOULD — Louise Brewer and Lillie MacDonigal were arrested yesterday by Sheriff Al Grooms on charges of complicity in the murder of Harry Skinner, itinerant horse trader, whose skeleton was found concealed in a wood lot two miles north of Paragould on September 14. Investigations made by the officers lead them to believe Skinner was murdered on the night of July 16 in a cabin a mile from the place where his body was found.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1966

The Pulaski County Election Commission made plans Friday to train volunteers next week in the use of the new Automatic Voting Machines leased by the Commission for the November 8 general election. The volunteers will demonstrate the machines to the public at several strategic locations beginning in two weeks. The Commission also announced that it would conduct a drawing at 2 p.m. next Wednesday in the old courtroom on the south end of the third floor of the County Courthouse for positions on the general election ballot.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1991

A closed downtown Little Rock nightclub was gutted late Sunday by a fire that apparently began in the ceiling, fire officials said. The Quarter Note, at 1001 S. Main St., apparently had smouldered for several hours before police officers on routine patrol noticed smoke pouring from the club about 11:30 p.m., a report said. Officials estimated the damages to the building at $50,000. Though the club had been closed for several months after its liquor license was suspended, its electricity was still hooked up and alcohol was stored there.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 2006

The violence that left more than 30 people dead in the first half of 2006 and threatened to set a new homicide record in Little Rock has slowed, falling behind the pace set during the gang wars of the early 1990s. But the 48 homicides in Arkansas’ capital city so far this year exceed by seven all those in 2005 and reflect part of an upswing in killings since the relative peace of the late 1990s. In the past decade, only one other year — 2003, when 50 homicides were reported — was deadlier than 2006 has been. Police and crime experts say this year’s violence can’t be entirely blamed on the gangs that drove killings during the early 1990s. Instead, they say the homicides are the result of personal disputes that go too far or take a tragic turn.