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Day in history for May 26, 2000

1875 -- 125 years ago: George Impky fractured both legs when he fell from a ladder while hanging a picture at Central Presbyterian Church, Rock Island.
1900 -- 100 years ago: A 4-year commercial course will be started at Rock Island High School.
1925 -- 75 years ago: Miss Vidis Brooks, Rock Island High School senior, was named winner of the national typewriting contest. To win, she had to type 60 words a minute without error.
1950 -- 50 years ago: The Quad-Cities newest drive-in outdoor theater will be located on 10th Street, just off off 23rd Avenue, south of Silvis, officials of the $100,000 project announced today. The 700-car theater, being built by the Independent Amusements, Inc., the same group that owns and operates the Memri in Milan and all the independent theaters in Rock Island County, will be built this summer.
1975 -- 25 years ago: Several hundred dollars worth of drugs, including highly dangerous opium derivatives and adrenalin, were taken over the weekend by a burglar who may not know what he's gotten himself into. The drugs described by authorities as ``extremely dangerous'' were taken from a doctor's office in Port Byron. Sheriff's investigator Gordon Powell said some of the drugs could result in instantaneous death if used by an untrained person.

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1863 -- 150 years ago: A large variety of children's wagons and gigs have arrived in thecity and are being sold at war prices.
1888 -- 125 years ago: All Rock Island retail houses, with the exception of a clothingstore and a jewelry store, have agreed to early closing hours during the summer months.The store will be closed at 8 p.m.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Baseball enthusiasts in Rock Island are attempting to raise$20,000 to keep the Island City Park open, despite the fact that the city has no franchise inorganized baseball this year.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The organization of a third rural young people's unit will beundertaken tomorrow night at the Milan Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. Mildred K.Wellman, home advisor, and Robert Smith, county farm adviser in charge.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere & Co. will begin a "big switch" on its telephone systemMonday morning. The extension numbers of all 1,600 telephones on the firm's EastMoline and Moline exchanges will be changed Monday morning.
1988 -- 25 years ago: East Moline's June Jamboree VI -- Nostalgia Days, will seemlike a '60s revival with the appearance of stars like Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, PeterNoone, Turtles, The Grass Roots and Lou Christie. This year's festival has beenexpanded to five days, June 22-26, at the Northeast Park complex.

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