Day in history for January 17, 2002

1852 -- 150 years ago

G.H. Baxter, located three doors east of the Rock Island post office, sells all the most popular magazines: Godey's, Sartain's, Holden's, Peterson's and Woodruff's Youth.

1877 -- 125 years ago

Twenty-three sleighs and two hacks make regular trips across the river on the ice between Rock Island and the village on the Iowa side.

1902 -- 100 years ago

Reporters inspected the Tri-City Bottled Milk and Butter Company on 44th St., Rock Island, and there saw milk tested for cleanliness and bottled by machinery. Bottled milk is something new in sanitation.

1927 -- 75 years ago

Community Chest, Inc., was organized on a permanent basis. L.M. Casteel was elected president of the association.

1952 -- 50 years ago

A warrant charging a Chicago man with selling unlabeled horse meat to Quad-City retail firms was obtained this morning in Rock Island police court. State's Attorney Bernard J. Moran said the warrant is against Matt Klaersch, identified as an official of the LaMont Provisions Company of Joliet.

1977 -- 25 years ago

After receiving favorable public reactions to its idea of a single Quad-City Civic Center, the Quad-City Development Group says that it will now accelerate research into the feasibility of the project. Originally proposed in September, the plan involves constructing a single Quad-City Civic Center on the tip of Arsenal Island.

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