100 years ago May 26, 1914

If a man owns a dog and he don't think a dollar-and-a-half's worth of that dog, he hasn't any individual or collective right to lift his voice in any upper register howl when his pup gets a ride in the city's dog wagon. This is the logic of Collector James Lawson, arguing the affirmative side of "Pay Your Dog License." "There hasn't been any wild, hilarious rush to my office by dog owners and, with the co-operation of the Police Department, I am going to give them a little inspiration by sending the dog wagon to every corner of this city," said Mr. Lawson yesterday. "When a dog lands in the city pound he's a lost ball if his owner don't pay the $1.50 ransom."

50 years ago May 26, 1964

Little Rock police had to turn cowboys for an hour early this morning to round up five loose cows in the downtown section of the city. The cows escaped from a truck when a sideboard broke. They romped down streets, across lawns and through service station lots. Officers in squad cars chased two of them down Capitol Ave.

25 years ago May 26, 1989

HOT SPRINGS -- Nearly two dozen people, some of whom wore black, paid their last respects Thursday to a mangled portion of "Albert" as he peacefully rested in the back of a Ford pickup truck. The 10-foot piece of twisted metal was part of the once-erect 313-foot transmitting tower of Hot Springs radio station KBHS-AM, 590. During a May 17 storm, Mother Nature struck and "Albert" -- as the tower was affectionately nicknamed -- "hit the ground with a roar," said Larry Taylor, the station's news director. A silk flower arrangement and a white cardboard sign with "Rust In Pieces" printed on it were aboard the makeshift hearse.

10 years ago May 26, 2004

Smokers no longer will be able to light up in the tunnel at the main entrance to the state Capitol under a new policy announced Tuesday by Secretary of State Charlie Daniels. But the chairman of the House Public Health Committee said Daniels' action isn't enough and will still force schoolchildren to walk through cigarette smoke. Daniels, known to have smoked in the tunnel himself, has moved the concrete cigarette bins from the entry in the tunnel to just outside the tunnel entrance. State Rep. Jay Bradford, D-White Hall, chairman of the health committee, said the latest change won't do much good because people must walk through the tunnel entrance to get to the front door.

Metro on 05/26/2014