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100 YEARS AGO May 1, 1914

CONWAY - The “co-eds” of the State Normal College have adopted baseball as a recreation, and bid fair to rival the real “Pedagogue” team composed of the young men, it is said. A full quota of two teams appears on the campus each afternoon, in various kinds of uniforms, and indulge in the national pastime. The slang of the game is English to them, and they say as many hard things about the “umps” as their brethren of the profession. It is probable that a game will be played at an early date.

50 YEARS AGO May 1, 1964

Jack Dallas, manager of the Embers Restaurant said today that the “Wishing Well” pool located in the entry lobby had been cleared of coins tossed there by visiting “wishers” and donated to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Two one-gallon jars were filled with coins, mostly pennies, which were sorted and counted by hospital personnel this week. Mrs. Ruby Rainwater, administrator of the hospital, said that $112.01 was received in the jars. The Embers Wishing Well has been donating the money cleaned from the pond to the Children’s Hospital for several years but this was the largest single collection made to date.

25 YEARS AGO May 1, 1989

Listerine mouthwash likely will be back on the shelves today at Wal-Mart stores after it was removed over the weekend, a company spokesman said. Don Shinkle, Wal-Mart’s director of corporate and public affairs, said a woman returned a bottle of Listerine to the store in Rogers on Saturday, saying it had caused a “burning irritation in the mouth.” He did not identify the woman. Tests on the suspect bottle Sunday showed that it was untainted. “Their initial analysis of the product shows that it contains only Listerine,” said Shinkle.

10 YEARS AGO May 1, 2004

The national headquarters of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity has temporarily suspended the charter of a chapter at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia while it investigates reports of a hazing after a male student was hospitalized. The executive vice-president of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity, based in Warrensburg, Mo., will be in Arkansas next week to start the fraternity’s own investigation into an off-campus activity that Arkansas State Police say took place April 16-17. “This is not what Sigma Tau Gamma is about,” said vice president Bill Bernier.

Arkansas, Pages 12 on 05/01/2014

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