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100 years ago

Feb. 22, 1918

• NEWPORT -- The Littleton Brothers' gin in East Newport burned this morning about 4:30 o'clock. When discovered the fire had gained much headway that efforts to extinguish the flames were useless. The origin of the fire is unknown. Besides the ginning plant, the office nearby, and the adjoining seed house were burned. Forty-two bales of cotton and 50 tons of seed were so badly damaged that they are of little value. Mr. Littleton priced his loss at $10,000. The building and machinery were valued at $3,000, cotton $4,000 and seed $3,000. A total of $8,500 insurance was carried on customers' cotton.

50 years ago

Feb. 22, 1968

• Eugene Reeves, 56, of Forrest City, died two weeks ago in the St. Francis County jail, and his daughter, Mrs. Helen Parker, also of Forrest City, has asked the FBI to investigate the incident. According to the Forrest City police records, Reeves, a Negro, was arrested the night of February 10, a Saturday, on a charge of public drunkenness. His body was found early the next morning, hanging by his necktie from a low horizontal bar in the cell. An autopsy has determined that asphyxiation was the cause of death.

25 years ago

Feb. 22, 1993

• Actors depicted Arkansas slave life in downtown Little Rock on Sunday. Just blocks away, an African playwright led children, teachers, and parents in dances, games, and stories from his continent. The Arkansas Territorial Restoration and the Arkansas Museum of Science and History honored Black History Month with separate events. Although the contrast between Arkansas slave life and African culture was stark, both succeeded in carrying the participant away from the Little Rock of today.

10 years ago

Feb. 22, 2008

• Just days after the deadly shootings at Northern Illinois University, Arkansas Tech University postponed a student production of the Broadway musical Assassins over public safety fears. Arkansas Tech President Robert C. Brown said Thursday that he had concerns about the reaction of passers-by to the sound of fake gunshots or to the sight of a realistic-looking fake gun carried outside by an actor during a break, especially considering the timing. "We're not in the censorship business, but we are in the safety business," Brown said in a telephone interview from the Russellville campus.

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