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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1913

Every garage in Little Rock has a sign warning the automobilists, employees and visitors to the place not to smoke, and to be a little bit different from the others the garage managers have exhausted almost every conceivable sentence to abate the smoke nuisance. One garage bears the sign “Do Not Smoke Because of Insurance.” Another has one reading, “Do Not Smoke - it Might Cause a Fire.” The managers of the garages are making a great fight against smoking within them, and in some places where the careless automobile owner may step in with his cigar lighted he will be quickly called to time. This care has averted many fires, for gasoline on igniting explodes.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1963

City officials will again station a policeman at the Walker Tennis Center parking lot to keep the public away. The officials have reserved this lot for themselves as a special place to park to attend Razorback football games in Memorial Stadium. The lot is just a stone’s throw north of the stadium. “Answer Please,” readers and others have been critical of city officials for using the power of their office and city policemen to prevent the public from parking on public property which the officials reserve for themselves.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1988

Elaine R. Britt is angry with Little Rock police for allowing Black and White Cab Co. drivers to watch for crime on convenience store parking lots. Britt opposes John Hall, president of Black and White Cab Co., in the race for North Little Rock justice of the peace, District 14. In a letter to Lt. R.L. “Bert” Jenkins, public information officer for Little Rock police, Britt said Hall was receiving “favoritism.” “If our youth can be hauled away to jail for hanging out in business parking lots … then the cab driver should also be hauled away,” the letter said.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 2003

The number of Arkansans living in poverty rose sharply last year, putting Arkansas in a statistical dead heat with Mississippi for the highest poverty rate in the nation, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday. Arkansas was one of eight states showing statistically significant changes in its poverty rate - and no other state suffered a larger increase in poverty, although Arkansas tied with two others. Nearly 19 percent of all Arkansans were poor during 2001 and 2002, up from 17 percent during 2000 and 2001.

Arkansas, Pages 12 on 09/27/2013

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