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(October 24th, 1908)

A lucky few National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) branches were intended to display elegant stained-glass windows of Civil War heroes, artifacts from temporary commemorative arches built for the Grand Army of the Republic’s (GAR) 21st Annual Encampment in September 1887 in St Louis, Missouri. The oversized windows - called “cathedral glass” or “transparencies,” and incorporated into state-of- the-art “illuminations” at the gathering – are as fascinating as components of a technology-driven display as they are for their artistic beauty. After sunset, electric lights would bring the images of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant to life for onlookers in the streets below, in the way that neon and Jumbotrons would have first awed twentieth-century audiences.

Football Thursday- Partly sunny skies with high near

LITTLE ROCK – The recent auction of tax-delinquent properties in Boone and surrounding counties raised more than $165,000, the Commissioner of State Lands announced.

Football Friday- Cooler and partly cloudy conditions with the high temperature near 85 degrees and a low around 62 degrees. Panther temperature around 79 degrees at kickoff.

By Jacklyn Chappell, Public Relations Mark your calendars, donors — and meat lovers!