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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for December 22, 2002

1852 -- 150 years ago: The Baptist Church has been open during the past two weeks for a series of meetings.
1877 -- 125 years ago: Work has been started on the foundation for a 1-story passenger depot for the Rock Island Lines on the north side of Moline (5th) Avenue, a few doors west of the brewery.
1902 -- 100 years ago: Mrs. Phil Mitchell has returned from a visit with friends at Philadelphia. Leon and Ardo Mitchell are home for the holidays from school at Lawrenceville.
1927 -- 75 years ago: First benefit ball for the pension fund has been planned by the Rock Island Police Department.
1952 -- 50 years ago: Plans are underway for the first installation of a theater-television system in the Quad-Cities. The equipment will be placed in the RKO Orpheum in Davenport, William W. Howard, RKO vice president, announced today. The equipment will project an image as large as the usual theater screen, which means a total area of over 300 square feet, or over 100 times larger than the average home television screen.
1977 -- 25 years ago: Mrs. Robert A. Crist got an early Christmas present, a present that took almost 60 years to arrive. The Colona woman received the Purple Heart and Oak Leaf Cluster awarded her late husband, who was wounded in France during World War I. When he returned to the U.S. his records were lost. They remained lost until July 1977, when Mrs. Crist decided to write the Army and ask about them.

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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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