Day in history for January 2, 2003

1853 -- 150 years ago

The Weekly Republican will accept most kinds of country produce, also wood and coal, in exchange for a subscription, for advertising, or for job work.

1878 -- 125 years ago

The first issue of Col. Danforth's new paper, The Rock Islander, has appeared. The colonel was advocating the greenback idea of national finance.

1903 -- 100 years ago

Mrs. Mary Ann Greenwood Buford, 88, widow of the late Gen. Napoleon B. Buford, died.

1928 -- 75 years ago

Twenty-one deaths have been caused in the midwest by the early January sub-zero weather.

1953 -- 50 years ago

News has been received of the birth of a daughter to Dr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Terry, Evanston, Ill. Mrs. Terry, the former Patricia Foley, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Foley, Rock Island, is well known in musical circles here. She was star in ``Firefly'' last summer, given by the Quad-City Music Guild.

1978 -- 25 years ago

Dialing 411 instead of searching through a phone book for unknown numbers soon could become an expensive habit in Illinois. Illinois Bell officials asked the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to approve a plan which would limit customers to five directory assistance calls per month and charge them 20 cents each for additional calls. Customers in the Illinois Quad-Cities dial directory assistance between 16,000 and 18,000 times daily.

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