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100 years ago

July 23, 1918

• Will Freeman, North Little Rock negro, yesterday asked County Judge Lee Miles for commitment papers to the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases for both his wife and for his six months' old baby. Freeman says his wife and baby are both crazy. He says his wife, Mary, will not stay at home. She will leave the house in the middle of the night if he does not hide her clothes, he says, and she is always acting as if she were scared or frightened. He says the baby, Willie Mary, has a head as big as its father's and the doctor has told him it is crazy too.

50 years ago

July 23, 1968

• The Pulaski County Action Council voted Monday night to oppose the closing of the all-Negro Shaw Elementary School on the Conway Pike and recommended that the Pulaski County (rural) School Board pair the school with the Oak Grove Elementary School. The Board voted recently to close Shaw and transport its students to the Oak Grove School. A group of residents from Marche asked the Council to oppose the closing of Shaw and to recommend that it be enlarged to take care of some white students who now attend Oak Grove. The Council didn't go that far, but it did adopt a resolution calling for the pairing of the two schools, the first three grades to be at one location and the second three at the other.

25 years ago

July 23, 1993

• Former telemarketers for a police chiefs association deliberately deceived consumers they solicited money from, a Pulaski County chancellor ruled Thursday. Chancellor Vann Smith assessed penalties of $315,000 and permanently barred the telemarketers from fund-raising in the state. The firms raised almost $1.4 million, but only about 3 cents on the dollar went to the chiefs' drug prevention program, says Attorney General Winston Bryant, who sued in June 1991.

10 years ago

July 23, 2008

FORDYCE -- Dallas County Sheriff Donny Ford sat down in front of a green screen Tuesday as a TV crew patted down his face with makeup, getting him ready to share with a national audience the unlikely tale of a dental-floss jailbreak. America's Most Wanted is in the south Arkansas town this week, filming a segment that Ford hopes will land a fugitive back behind bars. Last December, two cellmates used dental floss and a heated razor blade to cut through a thick metal bar and a window before scaling a barbed-wire fence and escaping to freedom.

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