100 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 1913
ST. LOUIS - Sweet potatoes, dumplings and chunks of bread flew across the broad nave of Thomas Hall, the dining room of Washington University, and smote the pates of undergraduates and waiters, in a “food fight” waged between students at opposite tables last night. The food fight is not an annual event, but the students say it will be a frequent event if the menu continues as it has been. They say none of the food which they used as missiles, except the bread, was suitable for eating, and that the sweet potatoes were hardly larger than crabapples. Jack Batschy of Quincy, Ill., started the fight by picking up a sweet potato and hurling it at Gene Smith of Little Rock, Ark., who sat across the room. Smith dodged and returned the fire with a dumpling, which struck Batschy’s necktie and spattered gravy over the man sitting next to him. “Well that’s going some,” commented Alderman Charles E. Smith, father of the Gene Smith mentioned when the dispatch was read to him over the telephone last night. “I’m glad it was nothing serious,” said Alderman Smith. “I suppose it’s another proof of the old adage that ‘Boys will be boys.’”
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 1963
The Sherwood City Council last night approved an ordinance placing restrictions on the keeping of horses within the city limits. The ordinance makes it unlawful to keep a horse within 75 feet of a house occupied by another person. It also requires a minimum of 1,000 square feet of running space for each horse.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 1988
After a 13-year absence from the Cotton Bowl, the Arkansas Razorbacks have become the first team in Southwest Conference history to secure the host spot before the month of November. It all came about Saturday when the Razorbacks, ranked No. 11 in the nation, ran their SWC record to 5-0 and assured themselves of at least a tie for the league crown with a 21-14 victory over Rice at War Memorial Stadium.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 2003
The chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences knocked the wind out of some smokers Wednesday with his decision to ban smoking from the school’s campus and hospital. Smoking is already prohibited in UAMS buildings. But starting July 4, cigarette use will be banned from the entire campus, so employees, students, patients and visitors will have to leave UAMS property if they want to light up.
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