Amity, circa 1930: Wednesday's feature showed the new school around 1910. Twenty years later it still stood, but with the center roof tower removed that once flew a flag. At the time, the average Arkansas teacher salary was $691 for a 149-day school year -- up from 107 days in 1910.
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