100 YEARS AGO Oct. 28, 1913
CONWAY - Dr. Frank A. Goodwin of Hot Springs today pleaded guilty to a charge of practicing medicine without a license and was fined $25 by Justice of the Peace M. Easterwood. Dr. Goodwin has been visiting Conway for a number of years, and with a black face comedian to draw crowd, delivered “lectures” on the streets to advertise his medicines. He formerly sold his medicines from the stand, but when the anti-peddling act became effective, he placed them on sale at a local drug store.50 YEARS AGO Oct. 28, 1963
Nearly one-third of the gasoline pumps checked by the new Arkansas Weights and Measures Division are incorrect, the director of the division said today. Authorized by the 1963 legislature, the division has been busy setting up its office and training employees but for the past month it has concentrated on the measurements given by some 2,200 gasoline pumps throughout the state. Robert W. Anderson, director of the division, and A. L. Little, division head, who works with the men in the field, said that 737 of the pumps were “off,” either giving too much gasoline or too little and in most cases too little.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 28, 1988
A cheering, flag-waving crowd of 20,000 saluted President Reagan in his “last hurrah” visit to Arkansas, and the president answered back Thursday by rooting for the Razorbacks and Vice President George Bush. Reagan delivered a strong, emotional call for voters “to do exactly what I did eight years ago … choose George Bush,” the Republican presidential candidate. With Air Force One as a backdrop, a tanned and fit-looking Reagan delivered a 22-minute speech that never mentioned Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis by name, but referred to his polices and beliefs as “liberal,” “left” or “left-wing” 13 times.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 28, 2003
After 12 years of federal court supervision, the Arkansas State Police has met and exceeded a judge’s order to install video cameras in at least 75 percent of the agency’s patrol cars. When U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Eisele learned last week that the agency had installed cameras in about 90 percent of its fleet of 340 cars, he released state police from the 1991 consent decree. The decree stemmed from a 1988 lawsuit accusing the agency of targeting Hispanics when making traffic stops of suspected drug couriers.
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