Stories from Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Betty Ruth Davis Threlkeld of Poplar Bluff was born Oct. 6, 1928, in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. She was the daughter of the late Homer and Virginia Davis. She passed away Sept. 26, 2024. At the time of her death, she was living with her granddaughters in Cabot, Arkansas...

It was a busy day for criminals and police alike. Road and rail rage in 1924 led to two arrests, and a pair of brazen robbers escaped under a city marshal’s nose in 1949. Headlines were calmer in 1974. In the age before the Internet, technology still helped job seekers access up to 1,500 listings at once and kept Poplar Bluff’s unemployment rate low.