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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for August 1, 2002

1852 -- 150 years ago: As the next man elected will be the 14th president of the United States, a Democratic paper concludes that General Franklin Pierce will be the man, since F.P. stands for fourteenth president as well as Franklin Pierce.
1877 -- 125 years ago: Captain Henry White, an old and well-known river pilot, is engaged in piloting boats through the tricky Rock Island rapids.
1902 -- 100 years ago: E.T. Dolly is wearing a championship pin for scoring 245 in one game during a bowling contest at the Rock Island Club yesterday.
1927 -- 75 years ago: Five hundred former residents of Cordova are attending that village's 90th anniversary celebration.
1952 -- 50 years ago: Chicago police today are investigating the theft of $28,000 in choice beef, shipped to Chicago by a Milan packing company and carried by a Milan trucker. Robert Redding, Milan trucking contractor, told police the beef was taken from his truck early yesterday while he and another driver were sleeping in a Chicago hotel. The 52,460 pounds of meat had been sold to the Royal Packing Company, Chicago, by the Mid-State Packing Company, Milan.
1977 -- 25 years ago: The La Rose Shoppe, 1623 5th Ave., Moline, has been purchased by Richard and Irene Farrell, owners of the Farrell And Farrell clothing store next door. The women's apparel store, founded by the late Mrs. Hyman Whitebook in 1931, was sold to the Farrells by her son, Herschel Whitebook.

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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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