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LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1912

An ordinarily well-behaved and strictly sober comma got on a jag at the Gazette office yesterday morning, and wandering about in this condition, got in the wrong place and did some classy tricks in alchemy, with the city’s finances. In a statement of City Treasurer Claude Ringo’s report for the month ending October 31, this dippy comma got into the wrong place and changed the balance now in the library fund from $2,780.09 to $278,009. Still dippy, the comma butted into the balance in the general fund on October 1 and changed the sum from $8,744.89 to $874,489.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1962

FAYETTEVILLE - Dr. Rodney C. Baker, chairman of the Washington County Medical Society, said 3,952 persons took doses of Type I Sabin oral polio vaccine in makeup clinics yesterday for persons who did not take the vaccine offered Nov. 4. Approximately 90 percent of the 55,000 residents of Washington County have taken the vaccine, Baker said. The immunization program was initiated after an outbreak of polio left a 9-year-old boy dead and hospitalized nine other persons.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1987

One more soldier came home Wednesday. A life sized statue representing the 650 Arkansans who died in the Vietnam War was unveiled in an emotional Veterans Day ceremony at the state Capitol. The statue is a centerpiece and final element of the Arkansas Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The statue, titled “Going Home,” was sculpted by John W. Deering, 31, of Little Rock, chief staff artist for the Arkansas Democrat.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 2002

Most state, federal and local government employees in central Arkansas took a load off on Monday. But Little Rock’s employees schlepped to work on Veterans Day as they have for as long as anyone can remember. “It’s been that way since I’ve been employed with the city,” said interim City Manager Bruce Moore, who is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. “I’m not sure why we don’t close. Obviously, we respect and honor the veterans of our country.”