100 years ago
Aug. 25, 1914
FORT SMITH -- In the United States Court today in the contempt hearing against union coal miners, who are charged with violating the court's restraining order in the Prairie Creek mine strike, James Mastell, a Prairie Creek merchant, testified he sold between $450 and $500 worth of high-power rifles between March when the strike began and July 16, the eve of the battles at Mine No. 4. However, he said he could not remember the identity of any of the purchasers. Judge Frank A. Youmans said: "It seems a most remarkable occurrence that this witness could sell as many guns as he has testified to, which was undoubtedly an unusual occurrence, and cannot remember the name of any of the purchasers. It is even more remarkable that he knows nothing of the battle at the mine on the 17th even though his store is within short distance of the mine. It is certain that the union miners did not purchase rifles to dig coal with."
50 years ago
Aug. 25, 1964
• Arkansas and Tennessee Highway officials said today they are "very anxious" to get started on the construction of a proposed six-lane bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis. Highway commissions of the two states met Monday at Memphis and signed an agreement whereby Tennessee would pay 60 percent of the states' share and Arkansas would pay 40 percent. The bridge, if built for six lanes, would cost between $40 and $50 million.
25 years ago
Aug. 25, 1989
• Rep. Lloyd George of Danville has a solution to the state's nursing shortage -- recruit more males. The reason? "About the time a young lady finishes nursing school she gets married," George said. "Then after about a year, she has a baby and leaves nursing. Once nurses drop out they're reluctant to come back. Things advance so much that they feel they can't catch up." The subject came up during a Thursday morning meeting of the Legislative Council's Review Subcommittee.
10 years ago
Aug. 25, 2004
• The DeValls Bluff School District cannot offer prayers at mandatory teachers meetings whether or not a teacher who challenged the prayers is present, a federal appellate panel declared Tuesday. The three-judge panel upheld a 2002 ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright of Little Rock. Wright ruled that by allowing the prayers, the district violated the First Amendment's prohibition against school prayers endorsing a particular religion.
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