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100 years ago

Aug. 4, 1914

FORT SMITH -- Suit was filed in the County Court at Van Buren today to compel Judge C. A. Starbird to remove Grant M. Meadows, a Republican, as superintendent of the Crawford County Infirmary. The suit was filed by the United Charities Association of that city. It alleges that Crawford is incompetent and that the inmates are not properly provided for. The petition charges whiskey is being unlawfully used at the infirmary and that the expenses of the institution have increased 30 percent in the last year. Meadows was appointed by Judge Starbird.

50 years ago

Aug. 4, 1964

FORDYCE -- Republican Winthrop Rockefeller hit the road Monday in his campaign bus, which is rigged out with most of the comforts of home, and before his tour of Dallas County ended the candidate's means of transportation conked out. The air conditioning system in the bus was the first to fail. It was repaired. Then a tire went flat. It was repaired. Then, for reasons unknown, the bus stopped running altogether and Rockefeller boarded a pickup truck to complete his tour of spots where residents said they hadn't been visited by a candidate for major office in at least 10 years. The bus was working fine at Fordyce, where Rockefeller stopped at noon and delivered a brief speech. He said his Democratic opponent, Gov. Faubus, had not kept promises to pave country roads.

25 years ago

Aug. 4, 1989

• Fifty-five inmates were released or transferred Thursday from the Little Rock Jail, a day after a near-riot during which prisoners set fire to mattresses and ripped wires from the ceiling. Little Rock Police Capt. Horace Walters, who supervises the jail, said the reduction in prisoners helped return the jail to normal. No incidents were reported Wednesday night or Thursday, police said.

10 years ago

Aug. 4, 2004

• She's home. About 2:30 Tuesday afternoon the USS Razorback glided across the Arkansas River -- sandwiched between two barges and pushed along by a towboat -- into the Port of Little Rock. A broom attached to the top of the submarine, bristles up, signaled "mission accomplished," a tradition from World War II. Onlookers in a half-dozen pleasure boats and a crowd on the shore watched the end of the submarine's 6,500-mile voyage from Turkey.

Metro on 08/04/2014

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