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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1917

CLARKSVILLE — Miss Addie Howard, 15-yearold daughter of Thomas Howard, living in the southern part of the city, drank carbolic acid this afternoon about 4 o’clock, dying before physicians could make an attempt to save her life. She attended church and Sunday school this morning and seemed to be in the best of spirits. Her stepmother and the smaller children had gone for a walk, leaving her and a sister at home. She is said to have given her sister a watch, telling her to leave the room, and to not return for 15 minutes. Before the time was up the sister heard her screaming and returned, where she found the girl lying on the floor in convulsions. She left a note saying “that because of unkind remarks made by girl associates that she wanted to die.”

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1967

■ The Little Rock and Cammack Village Fire Departments will begin Fire Prevention Week at 1:30 p.m. Monday with the annual parade of fire trucks through downtown. The parade will be composed of 21 trucks, dating from a 1934 model to newer models. All will have their red lights and sirens operating.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1992

■ Brenda Green, 30, of 2520 Dixon Rd. in Little Rock pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of hindering apprehension in the ritualistic slaying of a 14-year-old Jacksonville girl in October 1991. Green pleaded guilty to the charge during a hearing before Lonoke Circuit-Chancery Judge Lance Hanshaw at the Lonoke County Courthouse. She will remain free on $50,000 bond until she is sentenced Nov. 4, Hanshaw said. Bryan Harp, 31, and Nathan Childree, Amy’s 16-year-old brother, pleaded guilty earlier this year to the first-degree murder of the girl.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 2007

■ A proposal for North Little Rock to change its health insurance coverage for about 800 employees has city workers on edge and city aldermen being peppered with questions. North Little Rock’s City Council will have its first discussion about switching from the Arkansas Municipal League health benefits fund to the private QualChoice of Arkansas at its 7 p.m. meeting tonight. No vote is planned, Mayor Patrick Hays said. The city has asked QualChoice to make a presentation of its plan at the meeting to educate everyone about what it offers, Hays said.