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100 years ago

July 13, 1914

BATESVILLE -- Fire at 8 o'clock Friday morning destroyed the barn belonging to E. H. Marshall, a prosperous farmer living about one mile west of Batesville. There was no insurance and the loss is about $500. The fire started when Mr. Marshall was beneath the stable near the hay killing chicken mites with a lighted torch.

50 years ago

July 13, 1964

• Gov. Faubus today gave the green light to a citizens committee study of the financial affairs and operations of state government "because we have nothing to hide." The Committee for a Two Party System has hired the firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. to make the study. Winthrop Rockefeller, Republican candidate for governor, was announced as one of the contributors to the privately financed project. Faubus called the study "all political and harassment, and I think they would like for me to refuse to let them make it." William M. Berry, chairman of the committee, is a former member of the Public Service Commission under Faubus and parted ways with the governor several years ago. Faubus said that Rockefeller "uses Bill Berry like Edgar Bergen uses Charlie McCarthy."

25 years ago

July 13, 1989

• The first test-tube baby conceived in Arkansas, a 7-pound, 10-ounce girl, was born Tuesday at Baptist Medical Center. Conception of the girl, whose parents wished to remain anonymous, was the result of the In Vitro Fertilization Program started last fall at University Hospital, a news release said. Dr. Glenn Weitzman, an associate director of the IVF program, said the program is a relatively safe approach that offers hope for thousands of women and men.

10 years ago

July 13, 2004

• Arkansans who've been campaigning for years to legalize marijuana as medicine say they'll continue their attempt to put the question before voters, with or without the financial backing of an Ohio billionaire. The national organization supporting the Arkansas Alliance for Medical Marijuana announced last week that it's pulling out of the state effort, citing the slim chances that a proposed initiative would qualify for the ballot. But state supporters, dismayed by a costly campaign that may have produced fewer petition signatures than needed, announced Monday they'll pick up where the national campaign left off.

Metro on 07/13/2014

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