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YESTERYEARS FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009


Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:57 AM CST

65 Years Ago

February 26, 1944

DECATUR, Ill. — A cry in the dawn aroused Mrs. Louis Carey in a hurry. The cry was: “Hey Mom! Let me in — I forgot my key.”

It was her son, Pvt. Francis Carey, arriving on furlough after two years in Alaska.

  • LOS ANGELES — Jessie Jorgensen said she couldn’t go to divorce court because she faints in elevators, so Superior Judge Stanley Mosk adjourned from the 20th floor to the first.

    Then he granted her a decree on her testimony that her husband treated her “like a housekeeper.”

    50 Years Ago

    February 26, 1959

    A Pine Bluff woman was admitted to Davis Hospital yesterday for treatment of injuries she suffered at 6:45 p.m. in a two-car crash at 25th and Linden.

    Mrs. C.J. Warriner, 74, of 701 West 28th, is suffering from a broken right arm and bruises. Her car, a 1955 sedan, collided with a 1951 sedan driven by James D. Madding Jr., 18, of the Arsenal.



  • LOS ANGELES — Actress Greer Garson will inherit her mother’s estate, valued at $100,000, under a will filed for probate yesterday.

    Mrs. Nina Sophia Garson died last Nov. 27 at the age of 71.

    Miss Garson, married to oil man E.E. “Buddy” Fogelson, lives in Dallas, Texas.

    25 Years Ago

    February 26, 1984

    Dr. Madison M. Taliaferro has announced that he will practice dentistry in association with his father, Dr. James H. Taliaferro, at 1212 Main Street.

    The younger Taliaferro graduated from Baylor School of Dentistry in June, 1983.



  • Dr. W. Tim Norton of 2608 South Olive Street, recently attended the 23rd annual congress of the Heart of America Contact Lens Society at Kansas City.

    Norton, a graduate of Southern College of Optometry at Memphis, has been active in the society for three years.

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